
Corprophagy is Feces Eating
We have a 3 month old female Yorkshire Terrier that is not yet house broken and still goes on newspaper in the kitchen more often than not. We take her out about every 3 hours and sometimes she goes and sometimes not. The latest problem we are having is that she just started to eat her own feces off of the paper right after she goes. She did not do this before. We're wondering if she is doing this because she knows it's bad to go the bathroom in the house and she is just trying to hide it from us before we see it...or if there is another reason. P.S. she also eats her own feces in her crate that we keep her in at night.
Corprophagy is the act of eating feces. Most dogs choose to eat other animal's feces. Most of the time it does not result in disease. It is questionable whether this practice actually caused your pup's stomach upset, or was it merely a coincidence. To stop coprophagy, you should clean up the feces as often as possible. Adding monosodium Glutamate, a meat tenderizer sold as Accent® in the grocery store, to the other dog's food will make his feces taste worse. You would think feces would taste bad anyway, but monosodium glutamate makes it taste bad to dogs that like to eat feces. Adding a general mineral supplement ot a dog's food sometimes decreases the desire to eat strange foods. We use VAL syrup, a vitamin/amino acid supplement to help fulfill the nutritional requirements in attempt to decrease the desire to eat strange foods and feces.
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Corprophagy is Feces Eating

We have a 3 month old female Yorkshire Terrier that is not yet house broken and still goes on newspaper in the kitchen more often than not. We take her out about every 3 hours and sometimes she goes and sometimes not. The latest problem we are having is that she just started to eat her own feces off of the paper right after she goes. She did not do this before. We're wondering if she is doing this because she knows it's bad to go the bathroom in the house and she is just trying to hide it from us before we see it...or if there is another reason. P.S. she also eats her own feces in her crate that we keep her in at night.

Corprophagy is the act of eating feces. Most dogs choose to eat other animal's feces. Most of the time it does not result in disease. It is questionable whether this practice actually caused your pup's stomach upset, or was it merely a coincidence. To stop coprophagy, you should clean up the feces as often as possible. Adding monosodium Glutamate, a meat tenderizer sold as Accent® in the grocery store, to the other dog's food will make his feces taste worse. You would think feces would taste bad anyway, but monosodium glutamate makes it taste bad to dogs that like to eat feces. Adding a general mineral supplement ot a dog's food sometimes decreases the desire to eat strange foods. We use VAL syrup, a vitamin/amino acid supplement to help fulfill the nutritional requirements in attempt to decrease the desire to eat strange foods and feces.

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