Comments on: Why Do Dogs Eat Poop – And How To Stop Them!

By: Sammie@LabSiteHQ

Sammie@LabSiteHQ — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:49:30 +0000

In reply to Beryl Hanley. Hi Beryl. How horrible for you! Training a 'leave it' cue, like the one mentioned in this article, will be useful for this. I do hope it helps!

By: Sammie@LabSiteHQ

Sammie@LabSiteHQ — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:41:55 +0000

In reply to Deborah Nichols. Hi Deborah. That sounds very frustrating for you. One way to break the habit might be to take up the pads and have someone pop in every couple of hours to let her out instead! Sammie

By: Deborah Nichols

Deborah Nichols — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:21:43 +0000

I have a female shihtzu who doesn’t eat her poo when she potties outside. She only eats it when she uses her pee pad while I’m at work!

By: Beryl Hanley

Beryl Hanley — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:36:32 +0000

I have two Black Lab/Collie crosses. Older Male and young female. Neuted Male eats own poop and has done for years and spayed female does not. They both eat the rabbit droppings or guinea pig droppings. Never other dogs poop but male has eaten cat poop. Both are fed with a mix of good quality kibble and tinned wet food. If they have been given a bone the hard, chalky pellets are definitely less appealing and not eaten. Main and only solution I have found to own poop eating is supervised toileting and pick it up. Job done!!
BUT what REALLY, REALLY distresses me and causes me to get cross because of the high disgust factor I feel is that both are attracted to human waste on walks. Humans that get caught short and relieve themselves in woodland, hedges or other ‘out of sight’ areas. Dogs pick up the scent and if I have not ‘sussed out’ quick enough that this is what they have smelt, they can be half way through the waste before I get to them in order to get them to leave it. I used to also worry about any drugs residue that may be in human waste that could hurt them but I have been told any drug residue is mostly passed through urine.
So any solutions you have on how I can put them off human waste on walks would be very gratefully received.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:04:51 +0000

My 5month old Lab x retriever has been eating her poo during the night and vomiting it up. She is not interested in her poo throughout the day nor other dogs poo. She obeys ‘leave’ cue when we are out of our home.
I only hope that she will stop this behaviour, it makes me feel so ill cleaning it up in the mornings.
Does anyone else’s dog vomit after eating there poo?

By: Judi

Judi — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:40:40 +0000

I have a 4 year old Chihuahua, she was tiny tiny when we got her as a baby and it was winter so we trained her on potty pads. To this day we have to keep pads down or she will go every where I could leave the door open 24/7 and she will still go in the house. But she picks thru her poop and eats it and will like carry it up on the furniture and eat it… I need help I take her outside with our lab all the time I don’t know how to stop it .

By: Meg Austwick

Meg Austwick — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:17:27 +0000

In reply to Carol. Hi Carol, sorry to hear you're having this problem. One solution would be to take your puppy out to the toilet throughout the night. This is covered in a little more detail in our article on 'How to Potty Train a Puppy'. If you haven't been taking your puppy out at night before now, it may be a case of trial and error finding the time when they need the toilet, but it would guarantee that there is no poo where your puppy is sleeping for them to eat.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:04:08 +0000

If anyone can help, I would be grateful. Not one person, and this includes the writer of this article, has ever addressed how to stop a puppy/dog eating poo in the night. My Puppy is 6 months old. Completely ignores his poo in the day, absolutely shows no interest at all. However in the morning, there are always remnants of poo that he has eaten during the night. Obviously, I am not around at night, so is there a suggested answer for this one. I have gone through so many sites, and not one person has addressed this.

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Fri, 24 May 2019 00:28:59 +0000

In reply to Larry. Most of our labs stop being crated at night around 2 years of age. But they sleep in dog beds in our bedroom so they are not on their own. I still keep our 2 year old lab in a crate during the day if I am out.

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Fri, 24 May 2019 00:23:39 +0000

Is your 3 year old crate trained? If not that’s a great place to start. And make sure she only has room to lay dow, stand and turn around. Dogs don’t lie to lay on their own poo.