Puppies tend to think feces is food

Newborn animals cannot defecate on their own and must rely on their mother to urinate and urinate while licking food. This not only keeps the environment clean, but also prevents The smell is leaked to prevent other animals from hunting and to protect their own safety. Therefore, as long as dogs feel threatened, they will often eat their own feces to increase their sense of security. In addition, dogs use their super sense of smell to find food, and bite to check whether these things are edible. Therefore, some dogs define smelly and edible things like feces as food.

Failure to defecate at the designated spot and being beaten can also lead to eating poop

In terms of behavioral reactions, if the owner gives the wrong training to the dog, it is easy for the dog to have the wrong reaction. . The most common thing is that when owners see their dogs pooping in places where they shouldn't poop, they often pull the dog's head, force its nose to smell the poop, and then scold or even beat the dog. The owner thinks that this is the case. The action is to tell the dog not to defecate randomly. But please remember that punishment must be carried out at the moment when the dog makes a mistake. For example, you can only scold the dog at the moment when it poops randomly. Otherwise, even if you beat the dog severely afterwards, the dog will not know it. What mistakes did you make? And when a dog doesn't know why it is being blamed, it will mistakenly believe that the poop is the "culprit" that caused it to be beaten, so it will choose to "destroy the corpse and eliminate traces" and lick it gently, leaving no trace.

Being too active may also eat poop

In addition, dogs are very active babies and like to play with their owners. Some owners want to clean up the dog immediately after it is "convenient", but an unknown dog accidentally wants to steal his "treasure", so he swallows it quickly, which may become a habit.

Dogs know that eating shit can attract attention from their owners

In addition, I don’t know if you have heard of it, but the ancients had a bad habit (this is the editor I learned from the book (no intention of vilifying the ancestors)) likes to ask dogs to eat their own poop. Dogs are obedient animals, so they will carry out the owner's orders without hesitation. Later, this kind of evil nature of human beings was not eradicated with the improvement of society. Many people would make noises and even laugh when they saw dogs eating poop. How can young and innocent dogs understand the mood of people when they laugh? They will misunderstand them. He thought this was an encouragement, so he developed the bad habit of eating poop to gain attention. However, there are also dogs who are simply bored to the extreme and want to have some fun, so they use this method to relieve their loneliness. This is most likely to happen to dogs who have been kept in cages for a long time.

Intestinal parasites or lack of mineral elements can also lead to eating poop

In addition to psychological factors, physicalConditions can also cause dogs to eat poop. The poop excreted by some dogs, especially those with digestive and absorption problems, will contain a large amount of protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients. Dogs with sensitive noses will think their poop is food and eat it. In addition, if a dog has severe gastrointestinal parasites, it will also affect gastrointestinal absorption, resulting in incomplete nutrient absorption, making the poop contain a lot of nutrients, and the dog will of course regard it as food.

If a dog's nutrition is not balanced, it may appear hungry when eating poop. Some owners follow the advice of dog vendors or others and feed their dogs only one meal a day, or limit their dogs' food so that their dogs eat poop due to hunger. However, if the food lacks trace elements such as fiber, salt, cobalt, or phosphorus, preventing the dog from obtaining certain nutrients, he must "cycle" his own stool to obtain the nutrients. If you are unfortunate enough to be such an owner, I have to beg you to let the dog live.