Causes of fecal eating behavior 1. maternal behavior: female dogs will lick puppies after giving birth to puppies genital and anal area, in addition to stimulate the puppy urine and feces at the same time to eat to keep the environment clean, but also to prevent the taste of leaking, in order to avoid being other animals prey, belongs to normal maternal behavior. 2. Imitation behavior: owners often clean up the kennel and its place of residence, over time the dog also live near him to clean up the urine and feces, dogs see other dogs eat poop also learn to eat belong to imitation behavior. 3. inappropriate punishment: dog urine and faeces or bite or destroy things by the owner after corporal punishment, resulting in the dog’s heart fear, so the fear of being punished by the owner after the stool to eat the feces to destroy evidence. 4. replacement behavior: dogs eat poop is a nature, feces in some special flavor is the dog like, the fermented excrement of herbivorous animals is very attractive to them, when you can not eat such excrement will eat their own or other poop instead. 5. to get the owner’s attention: dogs eat feces because of internal diseases, the owner punishes and gets attention, after the internal disease disease is cured although eating feces will be scolded by the owner but continue to do so, in order to get the owner’s continued attention. 6. class hegemony behavior: subordinate dogs in the group may have to eat the higher-ranking dog poop to show subservience. 7. Feeding habits: Some dogs eat several meals a day, and after changing to one meal a day to eat poop to fill their hunger, causing such habits. 8. The main reason why dogs eat poop is just a lack of certain vitamins in the body. Just like cats like to eat mice (lack of taurine, etc.). Cats will eat certain grasses when they are sick, and once your dog is poop-eating, it is recommended to visit the vet, there are special remedies or foods that can treat it.
Dogs will eat feces due to lack of nutrition and trace elements This situation often occurs in puppies, adult dogs have a very small probability, due to the weak absorption and digestion of puppies, poor gastrointestinal function, food is excreted after there are many nutrients, trace elements have not been absorbed, and the excreted stool will contain a lot of protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients, so Xiang for them and digestible value, the It is a kind of delicacy. That’s why they sometimes eat their own poop. Dogs will eat poop for loneliness to get attention When the owner reacts greatly to the dog after eating poop, it gives the dog the distinct feeling that eating poop will make the owner care more about them. Therefore, some dogs take this method to achieve their goal in order to be the center of attention, or to get the owner’s attention, but there are dogs that use this method to eliminate loneliness because they are purely bored to death and want to find some fun, most likely to happen to dogs that have been locked in a cage for a long time. Incorrect training methods can lead to poop-eating habits in dogs People who have trained their dogs incorrectly in terms of behavioral responses, then the dog can easily react in the wrong way. The most common thing that happens is that when the owner sees the dog poop where it should not, he pulls the dog’s head, presses his nose to sniff the poop, and then condemns or even hits the dog. The owner sees this behavior as telling the dog not to poop, but for the dog it could be the owner entering the door, seeing the poop, getting angry, grabbing him, and ending with a scream or a beating, and the dog will think the only way to avoid being reprimanded or beaten is to destroy the evidence and eat his own poop.
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