Does it get worse than eating poop?

Whoa! That's bad...

Oh man! that's as bad as it gets!!LOL!

I think you've pretty much covered what my little dog has done. He has self discipline and loves schedules and order. He doesn't have many habits that I find offensive.

My Lhasa Apso used to eat her own poopsicles.......yuck yuck & yuck!!! Then, with her sensitive tummy, she would inevitably throw them up, usually on my bedspread!

My dog LOVES cat poop. At the dog park, I have to watch her like a hawk, she will go right behind another dog and get some "hot pockets"! UGH! In the winter, she also loves "poopsicles" very much. She will also throw up and eat it all back up. HAHA!

Not my pets, but a story:

Years ago I went visiting with one of my exes, one of his relatives that owned a farm in another state. It was lovely, picturesque, and in the evening we all sat and talked in a area near the barn. There were barn cats, and at the time a passel, maybe 4 or 5, of barn kittens.

Someone had thrown some chicken trimmings down for the cats and there was a piece of a chicken neck. One of the kittens tried to eat it, but it was too large, but that kitten was bound and determined to eat that neck and finally did. A few minutes later, it barfed the neck up, and here comes another kitten who started eating the barfed neck. You guessed it, the kitten ate the neck, barfed it up, and another kitten tried to eat it.

They were all delightful country folks and no one made a big deal, but it must have affected me as the story stuck with me all these years.

I'm glad to hear other people have dogs who eat poop. My dachshund who is a lovely dog in every way does this every chance he can. At the doggie park , instead of socializing, he is poop searching. Gross but my vet said half the dogs do it.

Oh, yes, barf. It's like second breakfast...

New cat pees all over pillows. Grrr. I am so angry. He gets fixed in two weeks. Counting the days.

My dog, though, she is perfect! Oh, she does a shadow/reflection obsession. If there is a reflection in the yard (from glass or plastic) she will dig in that spot.

Our sweet and hyper dog that passed away would run up the stairs and defecate the whole way up.

We used to play the "chase me" game with our old bichon. Then we got a beardie-ish puppy who seem a big afraid to join in (and have us chase him around). One day, he got up the nerve to play.

Well, DH did indeed chase him across the DR, and that poor thing shat the entire way!!

Too soon. Too soon.

I also have a dung eating little girl (doesn't know she's a dog) she's a tiny thing so we put out potty pads at night which is the only time she poops...its often gone when I get up. I used to wonder why I have to force her to eat chicken, but she has no problem scarfing down poop. I spoke with vets and trainers about this most disgusting behavior and I'm told its believed that when a dog see's its human clean the poop up they soon learn the human does not want it around so they eat it in order to please their humans.

Oh that is absolutely disgusting.

Oh man you guys are grossing me out and cracking me up at the same time!! Haha. Our dog Jack would chew on anything dead he could find. Eeewww.

The bigger dog who is a great pyrenees does not know the difference between our black & white cat & the black & white skunks, he has been sprayed 8 times & counting. We live in a very rural southern area & every fall during deer season some hunters gut the deer & leave the remains on the side of the road. Both dogs come home with deer legs, ribs & anything else left on the side of the road. Mine love cow poop which is so much bigger then the cats or their own. Just love my babies, it does keep me young cleaning up after them.

When we had a pair of budgies, there was regurgitated food sharing. Ugh! But I love them!

Eats mud like it's chocolate. If he sees me coming for him to stop the eating, he takes big bites and then runs away quickly!

He used to love dried, dead worms on the sidewalk. (Not any more for some reason. Maybe he got a "bad" one.)

I don't know whether to be disgusted or entertained by this thread ;0)

It's been a number of years, but while still living at home and enjoying a few first paychecks from a part time job, I bought my little brother an elk hound puppy. When tall enough, the dog would pull underwear out of the laundry hamper and chew them to shreds.

My mule is very crafty. She watches all the gates and if one is left open for more than a few minutes, out she goes, and the horses follow her. If she can get out of the pasture (off the property), she will lead them down the road. Before she came here, the horses would never leave the pasture. They didn't know there was a world outside of my front gate. However, when she leads them off down the road, I can go call them and the horses will turn and gallop back and she will (reluctantly) follow them.

True story. I had a dog 10 years ago named Chompers. She would often poop in my bed, I think to mark her scent & keep the other dogs off the bed.

One night she pooped under the covers while I was asleep. I had rolled in it a few times during the night. I awoke to the nasty smell & dog poop all over me. That was disgusting.

Pawprint, if that was my dog, she would be crate trained or become an outside dog in a heartbeat. My dogs want to eat horse manure, but I've never seen one eat it's own poop. I don't let my dogs lick my face....fortunately, cats don't do it. Anything that can take care of it's own hygiene....if you get my drift....I don't want licking me. I don't like cats jumping up on my kitchen counters. I know they don't do it, if I am around, but no telling what goes on when I am gone. I saw this on FB yesterday.

My cat drags his butt on the carpet while looking me in the eye defiantly.

Don't know about cats, but when dogs drag their ass, it usually indicates that there's some accumulation in some pockets inside their butt that's causing them discomfort and need to be evacuated - usually by hand.

Another visit to the vet ... unless you want to take care of it yourself: quite likely the vet would offer instructions.

You folks worry too much about inconsequentials.

I was 10, with two younger brothers, when World War II started and our hired hands left Dad's fairly large (for those days) farm to participate. We had cows, horses, pigs and chickens, a number of them depositing their residues outside at least part of the time during summer, though some were confined for part of the time, even then ... but were inside full-time through the winter. We had the task of clearing out their residues, via a litter carrier running on an overhead track in the cowbarn, or wheelbarrow from some of the pens.

Some of the cows and horses were in stalls, so their residue (there's a farm-style word for it: one of those "four-letter" ones) was limited to a small space, but the pigs, chickens and young cattle ran loose in a box stall, so mostly their manure was everywhere, mixed with the straw that we threw in for bedding.

Except for the pigs: Dad had built plank platforms in their pens, and we threw a forkful of straw into those platforms. When we kids were running around playing, we could go into the pig pen and lie down in those strawey platforms ... as the pigs slept there, dirtied in another location, and ate at a trough at the front of the pen ... but a cow'll shi! in its own manger: pigs're WAY smarter! You can house-break a pig: don't try it with a calf!

Most of our dogs ate their own poo on occasion, also ... which resulted in shrugged shoulders and laughter on our part ... and we were not in the habit of sniffing around the tail ends of our dogs (let alone kissing).

I've sometimes wondered to folks who were telling of being kissed by their dogs how long it had been since the dog had been around another fog (that was *supposed* to have been "dog": I swear!), and whether it had been sniffing that dog's hind end.

Farmers with animals are used to dealing with manure ... and sometimes they get some of it on themselves.

Nowadays ... some city folks even choose to have toy/pet horses ... wonder in what percentage of the circumstances most of them take full care of them?

ole joyful

Many years ago we kept the cats litter box in the basement. My Ashley, a Skye terrier, would disappear down there and come back up with kitty litter all over her nose. She tried to look innocent when scolded too. She sure loved her "kitty candies". The vet told us she ate it because it had a residue of canned cat food.

Great stories! It seems poop eating is the favorite pastime for most of our pet dogs!

My husband recently admitted that he's witnessed our terrier going down to the basement litter boxes and grabbing a snack. He's only seen him do it a few times! Yuck!

Years ago, a friend complained to her vet about her Golden Lab eating poop every chance he could get at the dog park. She told the vet 'He must be lacking something in his diet to want to eat poop'. The vet laughed & said 'Ya, poop!' He reminded her that it's not a nutritional deficit but they just like the taste. Still, disgusting, blecch!

What is so interesting about this thread is that I read every (disgusting) ugh again, ugh, word for no reason, other than guilty ugh, curiosity!