![]() In a flash, he’s running off with great excitement into the distance, with me chasing after him like a crazy person. Nothing to worry about I think, but the next thing I see him munching the ‘pebble.’ It’s not a pebble, it’s rabbit droppings! No, stop that!īefore I know it, he’s distracted by the next array of scrumptious droppings lined up for him. Has this happened to you? My dog and I will be enjoying the fresh air when I notice him sniffing at what appears to be a pebble. What can I do to stop my dog eating rabbit poop? I decided to ask a friend of ours who has experienced this exact problem and managed to get her dog to stop eating rabbit droppings last year. But what exactly can you do to stop your dog eating rabbit poop? ![]() I really am at the end of my tether with this - it’s making my husband feel physically sick and me anxious and stressed.Dogs love to chew and eat loads of disgusting things they find, and rabbit poop droppings are no exception! Most dog owners who own rabbits or walk in their habitat with their dogs will have experienced the nasty habit from time to time. ![]() Trainers so far just don’t want to know as the behaviour is “too self rewarding” and probably not a quick enough fix for them. Plus she is very wily and unless super tight can get the muzzle off. I’ve tried a muzzle but just kept getting a leg full of poo when she came back frustrated rubbing it on my leg. I try to stay calm but it does get me down and most days I wish I had adopted another dog - how awful does that sound? I feel ashamed even saying it. However, most days I sadly no longer enjoy my walks as it’s just a constant head down looking for poop to avoid and yelling leave it every 2 minutes. Walking was my hobby/passion, I do about 7 or so miles per day every day and wanted to do long distance walking with Molly. Like your dog she totally understands “leave it”, she even preempts me saying it by picking other stuff up (feathers etc) running towards me then dropping before I can even say leave it and expecting her reward. Unfortunately I live in a rural/coastal area with a huge dog population and lazy owners - it’s basically one huge free open buffet for Molly. She is exactly like your dog in that her walks are purely an opportunity to hunt out and consume as much poop as possible. At first I thought the poop eating was a sort of puppy/settling in thing but after 3 months I began to realise it was getting worse and not better. She was 14 months old at the time and had been with them since being dumped at 4 weeks old. She is actually a Dalmatian x Bodeguero (similar to Parson Jack Russell in appearance), about the size of a Cocker, and came over from a rescue in Spain last May. I’ll own up - she isn’t a lab - but her relationship with anything that resembles food, including other dogs poo and basically any animals poo, is very Lab like from what I can gather. Hi Lew, I’m just wondering how you have progressed with the poop eating issue as reading your initial post I’m in exactly the same situation with my rescue dog. She seems to be getting worse at eating poop and it’s no fun for her to be on a lead all the time - has anyone else had this problem or any advice? (Other than a last resort muzzle)? I am getting a dog trainer to help with the leave it command although she is already good at this - she just becomes obsessed with eating poop! She lives with her brother - another chocolate lab and she never eats his poop or her own - it’s only other dogs when we’re out on a walk, there is never any competition between the two and we feed them separately (so they don’t race to eat their food) - I feed her 140grams twice a day which may be a little more than she should be getting for her wheight (21.8kg) but she’s an extremely active dog and I take her out for 2 hours a day ( 1hr in the morning, 1hr afternoon). I have been training her the ‘leave it’ command which she responds to excellently at home! But out on a walk she takes very little notice. She’s got great re-call and very responsive but when she goes into this ‘trance’ she is completely unresponsive. She will eat up 20 poops at least if I don’t put her on a lead - she seems to go into a trance and tries to eat as many as she can - it’s all she thinks about - her head it constantly to the floor sniffing for poops. She is 3 years old herself and lovely in every way!Ībout 3 months ago she seemed to have a bad spell of dioreah that she couldn’t shake, a trip to the vets and we changed her diet to fish and potato as the vet seemed to think it may be a beef allergy - this worked well and her stool because normal again.Īround this time she started eating other dogs poop on her walks - it started out of nowhere as I have had her for a year and she had never done it previously. I have had her for 1 year and she is a rescue. Hello, apologies for the nature of this thread but my chocolate lab is behaving badly when it comes to the lovely subject of poop eating!
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