Data the Poop Eater!

[NomiNaomiLove]

Hi all,

New here and was looking for a bit of help. We have a nearly 6 month old beautiful Frenchie boy called Data. He’s not our first dog, but our first Frenchie (we lost our Doberman at the beginning of this year, and have a 5 year old Shih Tzu called Chewbacca )

Data is working hard on being a good boy, making progress with his bathroom habits. A bit of a two steps forward one step back situation, which is ok, he’s a baby.

However, the one step back portion involves his intense desire to eat his poop! When he has an ‘accident’ it doesn’t feel like an accident. He looks you in the eye when he does a random pee, which is happening less and less with us picking him up and taking him straight outside. Poop is a different story. On the occasions when he does go inside, it’s like he does it in as much of a hidden secret place so he can eat it.

We’ve tried digestive enzymes, pineapple (which gave him diarrhea) and changed his food 3 times. He now has Canidae Grain-Free Pure Foundations Dry Puppy food.

Our other dogs grew out of it, but Data seems very committed to his occasional poo snack. The longest we went was 5 days without plop consumption.

Aside from keeping eyes on him 24-7 which we mostly do as we both work from home, anyone got any ideas?

Thanks!

Naomi, Paul, Data & Chewie

 

[2bullymama]

Hello and welcome to FBN!

For some dogs is is just that... a snack. But it could be he is not fully digesting all the food so it still smells like food to him and not poop.

How much are you feeding him at each meal?


Also, here are some good articles on the topic

https://search.mercola.com/results.aspx?q=Eating poop#stq=Eating poop

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[Alice Kable]

Our last English Bulldog, Ruggles, started eating Buster's poop when Buster was a baby. Ruggles was 6 years old when this started. Buster became very regular so I'd take him out in our field, away from Ruggles to poop. So Ruggles started eating his own poop. I watched him closely, could hear the pet door flap and made sure I picked up after him when it was still steaming. He knew he wasn't supposed to eat it because he wouldn't even attempt to if I was watching. He started pooping at night so he ended up winning; I needed sleep! He lived to be 11 yrs. 7 months old which is old for an EB so I guess it didn't hurt him but it was so gross!

 

[NomiNaomiLove]

Thanks guys!

I’m hoping it’s a phase. But we’ll keep trying to get him to at least forget his tasty snack lol.

Other than this poop thing he is a crazy little joy to have around. He has far more quirks and idiosyncrasies than any breed of dog we’ve had before. Now I really understand the term ‘it’s a Frenchie thing!’