Behavioral reasons
● 1. Maternal behavior:
It is a normal maternal behavior for the bitch to lick the genitals and anus of the puppy after giving birth, which not only stimulates the puppy to urinate and eat at the same time to keep the environment clean, but also prevents the smell from leaking out to avoid being hunted by other animals.
2. Imitation behavior:
The owner often cleans the kennel and the place where it lives. Over time, the dog will also clean the toilet near where he lives. Dogs learn to eat when they see other dogs eating shit, which is an imitation.
●3. Improper punishment:
Dogs will be punished by their owners' bodies after urinating or biting people or destroying things, which makes them feel scared. Therefore, after defecation, they eat the feces for fear of punishment from their owners and bury the evidence.
4. Substitution behavior:
It is natural for dogs to eat shit. Dogs like some special smells in feces, which is very attractive to the fermented feces of herbivores. When they can't eat such excrement, they eat their own or other excrement instead.
●5. Attract the owner's attention: dogs eat shit because of internal diseases, and the owner punishes them and gets attention. After medical diseases are cured, they will be scolded by their owners, but they will continue to do so in order to gain their continuous attention.
●6. Class hegemonic behavior: inferior dogs may collectively eat high-grade shit to show obedience.
●7. Feeding habits: Some dogs have to eat several meals a day, and after changing to one meal a day, they eat shit to satisfy their hunger, which leads to such a habit.
Causes of medical diseases
● 1. Insufficient pancreatic exocrine secretion.
2. Gastrointestinal parasites
●3. Overgrowth of bacteria in gastrointestinal tract.
4. Inflammatory intestinal diseases
5. Huge esophagus or esophageal stenosis
●6. unbalanced diet, such as eating too much fat.
●7. Drugs cause drugs such as barbiturates, lutein and steroids.
●8. Hyperthyroidism
9. Hyperadrenalism
● 10. Diabetes
● 1 1. Pancreatitis
Processing mode
The main disadvantage of eating feces is that it causes nausea to the host and bystanders, which makes people feel that tutoring has failed. Eating dog feces will not cause much health harm, but there are parasites, bacteria or molds in feces for a long time. Virus pollution in other dog feces, such as canine parvovirus gastroenteritis virus pollution or Toxoplasma gondii infection, can cause other medical diseases. If regular deworming and vaccination can minimize the injury, every untreated dog can be effective and its owner may be affected.
● 1. Cut off the opportunity:
Clean up the dog immediately after defecation, so that it has no chance to eat shit. When he doesn't know when to defecate, put on a mask, so he can't eat shit, or he may be locked in a cage. There should be enough space at the bottom of the cage so that shit won't get stuck in the cage and he won't have a chance to eat it. When walking the dog, you must use a dog chain to prevent it from eating shit again after defecation. Will walk away and praise him after defecation. When he wants to smell his shit, he will stop it at once. In the environment where dogs live.
2. Timely reprimand and stop:
At that time, dogs should be strictly prevented from eating shit and corporal punishment was not allowed, otherwise it would be counterproductive. Don't be punished after eating shit, because the dog doesn't know why you are punished.
●3. Encourage:
Praise the dog after defecation, encourage and lure him with food, make him forget to eat shit and slowly get rid of his habits.
●4. Add the smell that dogs don't like to the feces:
It is necessary to add pepper, bitter medicine or a smell that your dog doesn't like after the dog poops. What smell your dog doesn't like depends on the owner. Every dog is different, so you might want to try it.
5. Stop by order:
This is only useful if the dog is trained to obey. He must be able to understand your orders, such as no, sit down, come, and so on When the dog has finished defecation, order it to do some obedience actions to divert its attention from eating feces.
●6. Add substances that dogs don't like after digestion to food:
In foreign countries, some commercial products are added to dog food. If a dog eats its own feces, it will be added to its food. If it is his dog, it must be added to his dog food. I don't know if there are similar products in Chinese mainland, but the effect is still being evaluated. Some people provide monosodium glutamate, garlic, pumpkin and so on. If you want to add it to the dog's food, its feces have a bad taste. Dogs don't like eating it. You can try to tell everyone the result.
●7. Add digestive aid:
Some people think that adding digestive enzymes can help digestion, and then prevent stool eating caused by digestive problems. This effect has not been confirmed in the study. You can choose one or more of the above methods at the same time. If other symptoms appear at the same time, we should consider whether it may be caused by internal diseases, and take it to the hospital for examination to find the real reason for treatment.