Potty Mouth??

Our worst fears have been realized: Cricket's severe halitosis seems to stem from her habit of eating feces, which my husband just discovered this morning. We live on a farm, so we always let Cricket run loose when we take her out, and we've never seen her doing this before, but it's been a nagging suspicion. Does anyone know how to break this habit, and what products may be available? I'm sure this is unhealthy, along with disgusting!

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Permalink Reply by NoClaws4Alarm on June 21, 2008 at 10:34am

I thought garlic and onions were a big NO-NO to feed dogs...

I heard somewhere about feeding them pineapple to stop coprophagy... maybe it was here? I have never tried it because Rolo seemed to outgrow it -- he only did it when he was left alone and bored.

I thought this was a really good article:
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1551&arti...

...oh... and I've found that planting king sized marigolds between vegetable plants (especially tomatoes) will doing a wonderful job at keeping bugs away, too :)

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Permalink Reply by Jen Hajdu on February 26, 2008 at 12:06am

Ugh! We have the same problem with Miles. We worked on the command "leave it" which helps when we are at a dog park and can't control other owners that have left what Miles feels are 'tasty treats.' Let me know if anything works!

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Permalink Reply by Mike, Susan, Wally,Oliver & Eva! on June 20, 2008 at 10:49pm

Thank god for this thread. I was about to cry over my dog's dirty business.

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Permalink Reply by Mochi The Corgi on June 20, 2008 at 11:40pm

Yes, there's been many times i've reached into Mochi's mouth and have found POO all over my hands!!!! She doesn't discriminate between who's poo it is either... dog or cat.. or ect... i don't know... but we stopped her from eating her own poo by putting some For-Bid, on her food. It's this powder stuff that makes the poop taste bad. That has stopped her from eating her OWN.. but not others.. i guess we'll still work on that.
The cat poop seems to make her wild...