I have 2 Weimaraner puppies. My older female is a slow eater and a bit more discriminate about food. My 4.5 month old male is a garbage disposal that goes mad for anything even remotely edible. He is obsessed with eating poop- his own and his sisters, it doesn’t matter. Out of desperation, I sprinkled cayenne pepper on all the piles I could find in the yard to try to give him a negative association with eating poop. He started avoiding the piles with the pepper, but would inevitably find the ones I missed.
So, I bought these about 2 weeks ago. I give 2 tablets to each dog with their meals as they are roughly 40lbs each. Remember you have to give it to ALL dogs to make their piles taste bad to the naughty poop eaters. Thankfully both my dogs seem to eagerly eat the tablets, even though they smell absolutely horrid to me. Anyway, at the same time I went around the yard and tried to get all the poop picked up to make sure no piles were left so my dog would only be able to find the piles that were made AFTER taking the tablets. I did notice a fairly dramatic reduction in poop eating after the tablets started, but the poop eating has not stopped. My offending dog still comes in at least once a day wagging his tail, licking dookie off his chops, and smelling like a sewer. I think he is actually developing a tolerance to it.
Your best course of action with a poop eating dog is just to pick up the poop, but if you are like me and have high energy dogs and a huge fenced yard, you aren’t going to catch them pooping every time and they make so many piles that it’s hard to keep up. I feel like these tablets do help, at least initially, but when you have a dog with a voracious appetite for poop, I don’t think these are a good long term solution. I’m going to be moving on to a training collar at this point.
Oh also FYI, these probably will not stop your dog from going for the cat poop or other random poop they find on walks. It makes THEIR poop taste bad. Other animal poop still tastes delicious to them.
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