Dogs eating feces may be due to environmental factors

① Raising too many dogs and poor air circulation in the dog’s residence can lead to bad mood, depression and irritability.
② Dogs lack the care of their owners. In order to resolve loneliness, dogs will become curious about foreign objects around them and even their own feces.

Dogs eat feces or suffer from nutritional deficiencies

① Improper diet leads to trace element deficiency.
② The lack of certain proteins and amino acids leads to metabolic disorders in dogs.
③ Lack of other nutrients, such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur, iron, sodium, copper, cobalt, manganese and other minerals, especially sodium salt.
④ Deficiency of certain vitamins and trace elements, especially vitamin B deficiency.

Dogs eat feces or suffer from pica

① Toxins or stimulation produced by external parasites can trigger pica.
② Intestinal parasites lead to a decrease in the digestion and absorption function of the intestine, resulting in a lack of nutritional elements in dogs and the development of pica.
③ There are also some endocrine diseases that can cause stress in dogs (referring to the sum of the psychological and physiological reactions caused by excessive stimulation to dogs) and lead to pica.

Dogs eating feces may be a natural instinct

Dogs are playful, active and curious, especially newborn puppies, who are full of curiosity about various things in the environment. The mind will explore unfamiliar things around them through the mouth. If this behavior is not corrected in time, it will also form pica.