Dogs eating their own faeces

Dogs eating their own faeces may be caused by the following reasons: 1, infected by maternal behaviour Usually, the mother dog will go to lick the genitals and anus of the newborn baby dog to stimulate the baby dog to defecate, such practice can prevent the smell of the baby dog’s poop from exposing its whereabouts so as not to be attacked by other similar species; therefore, puppies are infected by the mother dog’s maternal behaviour from childhood before they can have faecal eating performance. 2、Dogs suffer from omnivory Usually caused by a lack of trace elements in the dog’s body, mainly because the pet owner has only given the dog a single dog food for a long time, without giving the dog additional supplementation of other nutrients. 3, suffering from inflammatory bowel disease If the dog suffers from gastroenteritis, it will cause indigestion in the dog, so the dog will be discharged from the poo, which will contain nutrients that have not been fully digested, resulting in the dog eating the poo.