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Old November 16th, 2016, 01:34 PM
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I'm not sure the identity of the maker of the scat is as important as just avoidance of scat ingestion at this point.

Poop-eating can be a tough thing to break a dog of. Mostly it seems you can minimize it, but with ours, we'll probably never eliminate it. They were too old when we got them and had been into the habit for too long. The younger you start, I suspect the better your chances of controlling it.

Have you taught your pup any kind of "leave it alone" command? It's something you can start training for under controlled circumstances in your yard or even inside the house, and it can be an invaluable tool for redirecting your dog away from the tasty poop and back to you.

We have a number of poop-eaters here (sigh ) and, with practice, we've gotten to about a 90% success rate of calling them off a tasty treasure even if they're off-leash in the woods. All of our poop-eaters were rescue dogs and didn't get any training at all until they were at least 18 months old (their gotcha age)--I suspect that if we'd had them from pups we would have an even better success rate.
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