The reason why dogs eat their own poop

1. Maternal behavior
After giving birth to puppies, the mother dog will lick the genitals and anus of the puppies. In addition to stimulating the puppies to urinate and defecate, they will eat them at the same time to keep them safe. The environment is clean and tidy, which can also prevent the smell from leaking out and avoid being hunted by other animals, which is a normal maternal behavior.
2. Imitate behavior
The poop scavenger often cleans the kennel and the place where he lives. Over time, the dog also cleans up the urine and feces near where he lives. The dog also learns when he sees other dogs eating poop. Eating is an imitative behavior. Look, dogs are so sensible~~
3. Improper Punishment
Dogs are afraid of being punished by their owners after defecating, which makes them afraid, so they eat their feces after defecating to destroy evidence.
4. Replace other things
It is natural for dogs to eat feces. Some special smells in feces are what dogs like. The fermented excrement of herbivorous animals is even more tempting. When you can’t eat it, When there is excrement, eat your own and replace it!
5. Get the owner’s attention
Some dogs eat poop just to get the owner’s attention. (Master Yin, if you continue to ignore me, I will eat this shit!)
6. To show submission
In the dog pen, lower-level dogs may have to eat higher-level dog poop to show their submission. Surrender.
7. Hungry
Some dogs have to eat several meals a day, and after changing to one meal a day, they eat poop to satisfy their hunger, which leads to this habit.

Methods to improve the way dogs eat poop

1. Cut off opportunities
After the dog poops, clean it up immediately so that it has no chance to eat poop.
2. Severely reprimand
Severely stop your dog from eating poop, and do not use corporal punishment, otherwise it will have the opposite effect. Do not take any punishment after eating poop, because the dog no longer knows that you are Why punish it.
3. Diversion of attention
Praise the dog after defecating, encourage and lure it with food, make it forget to defecate, and slowly change the habit.
4. Add a smell that your dog doesn’t like in the feces
After your dog poops, add hot peppers, bitter medicine or a smell that your dog doesn’t like in the feces.
The nature of dogs is very simple and innocent, but after being raised by humans, due to some improper breeding and education methods, the dogs' psychological and physiological problems have become very complicated.
People always use human points of view to judge the behavior of dogs. This selfish idea not only makes them angry, but also hurts the dog.
So when your dog behaves abnormally, first calm down and think about the problem from the dog's perspective, and you will be able to understand that the dog's behavior is a reflection of the owner's behavior.