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What are you feeding your dogs macaw?

That they would eat it twice?

Just curious

What are you feeding your dogs macaw?

That they would eat it twice?

Just curious

more glitchs ?

ACV works like a charm.

The only thing that has worked for me is........Clean it up before it's an option.

Two moons I am feeding Canidea.  The reason they are eating it twice is because I have a dog with pancreatic disease.  He

began to do a backslide.  I'm working at restableizing him, but as soon as he stops fulling digesting his food, he and my other

two dogs begin eating it.

RoZoAn, I do clean it up almost instantly.  But watching 3 poopers at 4am, in the pitch dark, is difficult.  I sometimes miss

where each one has gone.   My EPI dog has also had a few accidents in the house, all that's left is the stain, when I get home.

Caser Milan had a stool eating dog on the show last week.  He used the leave it comand and rewarded the dog with a banana to curb the behavior!  No magic to the banana, just a treat to curb the habit.  Maybe training can help??

Diane, thank you very much for that information. I have never read the list of ingredients for meat tenderizer, much past its content of garlic and other spices. It is the content of garlic in some meat tenderizers that keeps me concerned. Perhaps for no reason, but I tend to be careful.

I have been fortunate as I only had one (1) bitch who would eat her stool. She was perhaps nine (9) months old when she began this behaviour. At the beginning I noticed that her stool had a lighter colour, was softer than normal, and it had a more pronouced odor. I suspected that she might have a pancreatic issue, but did not test her since occassionally her stool looked just fine..

She was (and still is) a very punchy girl. I think it was her high level of activity, plus she was a "gulper" at that time in her life and made a game of running and drinking water from every bucket and commode in the house. I think her massive intake of water may have caused her food to be excreted before it was sufficiently digested, and of course that is similar to pancreatic malfunction.

She eventually matured and everything was correct. As always, thanks for your input. It's nice when an expert visits here.

Best Regards,

Bob-O

macaw,

You said three poopers.   Three dogs, all eating their waste.    One is sick.

If this has already been going on for a while I don't think your gonna cure it.   You should try but I don't think your gonna get it to ever stop between these three dogs.   Its becoming a learned behavior and will become a habit soon if it hasn't already.

Separate the dogs, the two healthy dogs should eat only once a day and be excersized.  Add what you will to the food.  Maybe crate them for a while to change their schedual, feeding time and going out to do their business, teach them a new habit. 

The sick dog your gonna have to deal with differently, I don't know what your doing in the way of maintainance or treatment of the disease but if need be you could put the dog on an open floor (grates) that allow the waste to fall thru.

A little poops not gonna kill a dog, probably wouldn't even make one sick, but eating it all the time will.  Find a way.

My best advice would be to separate the dogs and deal with them each on their own.  Either train them and change their habits, or separate them from the waste.   Use whatever you find that may discourage the eating habit, but understand it will become a habit if you can't do something soon.   Dogs are hard to break of bad habits once they set in.

I've seen products advertised to stop this but I wouldn't trust them and dont believe in that method of dealing with a problem like this.

Best of luck with your sick dog.

Moons.

Thanks for all your replies.

Moons, it doesn't happen normally.  But it starts up whenever my sick dog gets sicker.  I am working on keeping him isolated so that his poop doesn't attract them, but the other two get into the habit very quickly, and them I'd like to curb.

I'll try several suggestions here, and even though I'm quick picking up, I guess I'd better get quicker!

Thanks again everyone.