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Digestive difficulties
Oct. 13th, 2006 03:37 amI have a question about my golden/poodle mix than I'm hoping someone can shed some light on.
I think my dog has been eating his own poo. He isn't totally housetrained yet, so he has occasional accidents, especially at night. Several times we have awoken to a very strong smell of doggy mess in the house, but couldn't find it. Careful searching revealed a damp smelly spot on our floor with only little smears of puppy poo. We can only assume that he ate it. So my question is, why?
His poo is also abnormally foul smelling, IMO. I think part of this is related to his diet. We've been feeding him what the store was giving him (they give all the pups a small breed puppy formula) and we plan to switch that when what we have of it is almost gone(gradually of course). I've read that larger breeds have shorter digestive tracts in proportion to their size, so the wrong food may be the problem. But why the eating it? I've never seen a dog do that before.
I think my dog has been eating his own poo. He isn't totally housetrained yet, so he has occasional accidents, especially at night. Several times we have awoken to a very strong smell of doggy mess in the house, but couldn't find it. Careful searching revealed a damp smelly spot on our floor with only little smears of puppy poo. We can only assume that he ate it. So my question is, why?
His poo is also abnormally foul smelling, IMO. I think part of this is related to his diet. We've been feeding him what the store was giving him (they give all the pups a small breed puppy formula) and we plan to switch that when what we have of it is almost gone(gradually of course). I've read that larger breeds have shorter digestive tracts in proportion to their size, so the wrong food may be the problem. But why the eating it? I've never seen a dog do that before.