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[jazzi-girl]

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Help! My 10th month old whippet bitch, Jazz is eating other dogs mess. I have tried feeding her Pineapple and Courgettes and this is not working. I feel the next step is her diet. I feed her a mixture of Prize choice frozen rabbit, tin dog food and puppy biscuit mix, I obviously cook the frozen rabbit which has no additives. Does anyone have any different ideas on what I can feed her or how I can add more vitamins to her diet.

Thanks Donna

 

[Trish]

dont think anything works as this topic as been covered a few times before with people trying different things ,i have two boys that eat poo and they are 16 months old and 21 months old,im still hoping that one day soon they will grow out of it :wacko: :unsure:

oh and welcome to k9 its a brilliant forum :thumbsup:

 

[stormydog]

feed a tin of pineapple in with her food. goes in lovely but when it mixes with the faeces its more stinkier than a gypos socks ! shel be heroic if shes touches it...!

 

[nicky12]

my tia ,ollie and blue done this soon grew out of it thou although they usualy replace that with sheep poo ,horse poo,or any other poo they can find :x think its a whippet thing :lol:

 

[haycroft]

one of my whippets eat other dogs poo and livestock,chickens,foxes :x and shes nearly 3year...ive tried everthing and nothing really works.....apart from feeding my other dog on raw/bones then Bow s not that interested just a stiff and thats it....but not everyone feed their dog on that diet and theres so much crap what goes into some dog food and its yummy for the dog who eats it

Jazz may grow out of it and try saying firmly 'no' when you see her doing it and pick up as much as possible

btw you dont need to cook the frozen rabbit just defrozed and feed to jazz

some other k9ers might have more advice

good luck

arent whippets lovely

 

[jazzi-girl]

Thanks for the quick replies. Not good that this could carry on for the next few years though! I didn't know my beautiful looking girl was going to acquire such a stomach churning habit. I also forgot to mention she doesn't like eating her own poo just anything else horses, duck, fox etc :x

Thanks for the welcome and yes I agree "Whippets are the best"! :thumbsup:

 

[jinnyfizz]

I have a GSD who eats her own poo - she will be 5 this year and still does it :x

It's called corophagia (you can Google for info) but this is only when they eat their own :- "

Eating horse/sheep/cow poo is good for her. It contains pro-biotics which help the dogs digestion and is a totally natural thing to do It's rather like having a good meal of veggies as the animals concerned are herbivores!

Not sure about eating other dogs' poo :unsure: - although my GSD will hang around waiting for the whippets to "go" and then snack if she can (saves me clearing it up :lol: )

All my dogs will eat cat poo if they can 'cos it smells like cat food - doggie delicacy!!! :lol: (w00t)

 

[dessie]

I have a GSD who eats her own poo - she will be 5 this year and still does it :x It's called corophagia (you can Google for info) but this is only when they eat their own :- "

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It is COPROPHAGIA actually!! For the pineapple trick to work you need to feed it to the other dogs not the one eating the poo!!!

Sometimes puppies will grow out of it, like anything you have to catch them doing it to correct the habit but, unfortunately, some just do it and others don't!! My TJ is the world beater at it so I either keep him on a lead or let him off and don't watch him!!

 

[argos1]

THINK ITS A WHIPPET THING PHOEBE IS 2 NOW AND STILL LOVES TO EAT POO NOT HER OWN BUT WHEN SHES HAVING A GD RUN AND SHE KNOWS WE CANT CATCH UP WITH HER SHE WILL TUCK IN TO RABBIT POO FOX POO (ALTHOUGH SHE TENDS TO PREFER FOX POO AS A PERFUME LOL) AND HER FAVOURITE HORSE POO SHE LOVES THAT SHE EATS IT AS QUICK AS SHE CAN THEN STANDS THERE LAFFIN AT US GOD KNOWS WHAT FOLK MUST THINK WHEN THEY WALK BY POOR LITTLE WHIPPET DOESNT GET FED LMAO

 

[alilemur]

Glad to hear that it's not just my dirty whippet with a problem

Buffy likes it 'fresh' as it emerges from Willow (other whippet)...mmmm...a bit embarrassing in public though. She is nearly 2 and is growing out of it. I try to intervene and shoo her away beforehand, but that's not always possible. She is now in an intense phase of fox poo purfume, all over the neck, forcing me to wind down all the car windows on the way home from a walk :x

Alison , Willow & Buffy xx

 

[argos1]

lol alison snap.....we have just finished giving phoebe yet another shower lol we took her for a lovely run in th park seen as the weathr here is so nice she was being so good but of course it didnt last she did a runner straight to a mass of fox poo :x not content with getting it all over her neck and coat and collar she decided it would be nice to completly cover her head in it she then got up and smiled sweetly at us and happily trotted into the car!!! :x omg all windows down what a stink her head was totaly black she obviously thought she smelt great lol so it was str8 in and in the shower we now have our fawn whippet back lol always said i would like a black one but hey thats pushing it a bit far

 

[posh totty]

pmsl kat n lorna!!!!!!! (w00t)

cant imagine princess phoebe ever doing anything naughty or dirty o

 

[midlanderkeith]

joking apart now, i have a golden retriever, and when she stools, she stools big time, i often wonder how she passes the buggers, anyways as a pup, she was outside passing one, then it hit the deck steaming like a gud un, she hovered over the damn thing and was just gonna devour it when i scawped on top note

gerrout of it you orrible little dog, made her jump, thats wotya gotta do cop em at it, none of mine do it.

:cheers:

 

[kim & Tilly]

This is discusting but Scrumpy will wait till Tilly is having a poo and eat it straight from her bum.......

Boys eh!!! :- "

 

[Jillb]

Hi Donna, this is very common and some people seem to think it is to do with the diet and some think it isn't. Mine both eat the odd bit of poo whatever i've been feeding them on. Merlin in particular had a terrible poo eating habit when he was younger and could not pass one without devouring it but I managed to get him to stop it 90% of the time by teaching him the 'leave' command - it worked a treat. However there is still the odd poo that is too good to pass up and I do find it's worse if I take them out hungry.

Good luck, it's a horrid habit isn't it!

 

[Rae]

Star is 5 this year- she eats poo as it comes straight from the other dogs bottoms :x :x :x She will race across the field if she sees one of them having a poo, there's nothing I can do other than keep her on a lead, or as Dessie says, dont look :lol:

 

[jazzi-girl]

Thanks again to you all who have commented on my little lady's eating disorder! I've had a good laugh reading them all, especially the dogs that roll in fox poo and wear it as perfume, she does all that and covers her beautiful fawn head, neck, ears etc. I now don't feel so desperate as I was under the impression my dog was the only one that had this habit. I have changed her food today and gone for a dry food it may work, it may not who knows!

Love the photos of all your whippets, I wish I could put one on of Jazz, still waiting for my husband to do it for me, I'm not computer literate. :blink:

Regards Donna

 

[wilfred]

I know it seems a disgusting habit to us, but to a dog, there is still plenty of "goodness" in poo (ugh, I know, it's hard to contemplate!!).

It's not just a Whippet thing, any dog can develop this habit.

And now (on that note) I'm off to make our tea ... :- "

 

[BlueNoise]

Sidney is 5 this year and he loves old cat pooh :x :x :x