I really don't know what to do about this and its making me ill. When off lead, my two CKCS go off eating sludgy mud and poo - they go completely deaf and will not come back to me even for the best of treats, so until I can get to them they carry on eating. They never eat any of their own poo, just what they find when out. What can I do other than keep them on leash all of the time? I have bathed them both tonight because their faces and ears stank so bad.

HELP!!!

It is difficult to stop them eating p** ie: water gun , long leads
Do you walk them in the park if yes then do you keep to the paths as I find thats where most of the p** is around the trees etc try walking them onto a big field for a good run then put them back on long lead for thier walk.
you could also teach them to carry a toy :)
Other than that they should grow out of it mine did if you persevere.

I can only offer sympathy - George also does this - never his own at home, just other dogs in the park. It is SO disgusting! He knows the 'LEAVE' command, and if he's only mouthing at it he will usually leave it, but if it's in his mouth there's not much I can do except give him Dentastix and brush his teeth when we get home. He doesn't do it as much as when he was young, but I'm afraid not all dogs grow out of it. :-(

Jasper eats horse poo no other type just horse

I'm dreading the cows being let out into the fields where I walk, which will be anytime soon. Cow p** will be back on the menu! It's been lovely over the winter in cow-free fields. Not quite the same problem as yours, but revolting nevertheless. I tried muzzles (they suck it up through them), leave them to it (they then get the squits) and finally reverted to leads. Nothing would stop them eating it.

Thankyou for your help. They have started walking nicely when I use the double dog lead coupler so I am going to try connecting a training line to that and then reel them in if they look at all suspicious. I can't really put them on seperate training lines when its just me walking them as they would tangle......one is enough!

Are your spaniels still puppies?  My dog did it when she was a puppy, but she grew out of it and in the same time I train the leave command to a really good response.  If I see her taking great interest in something on the floor I shout 'leave' and she comes and gets a treat.   She still takes a fancy to all sorts of poos but no where as she did when she was under one year old.  Now she likes rolling in different poos, which is somewhat worse.  But again, I shout leave or call her over to me when she sniffs intensively at something at the wayside.

My girls consider rabbit p** to be a lovely free form of sweeties...eat it by the bucket full if they could find enough!

My girls consider rabbit p** to be a lovely free form of sweeties...eat it by the bucket full if they could find enough

Sort of choccie raisin type sweeties ;)

All my Labs have had a love for wabbit poop :D :D

Lucy
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Mine love horse poo and cow poo to eat and fox poo to roll in. :p You have to laugh....  I have heard people say that they had less problems with this when they started feeding their dogs on a raw diet (but can't remember when or where I heard/ saw it!).

My boy loves horse poo, cow pats, and rabbit droppings (in that order). I have at least managed to get him to just grab a mouthful, and then start running..as he knows I am sprinting up behind him looking a bit like Then he runs alongside me with a big smile on his face, with the most honking breath ever!

Oh dear. I'm afraid they get some dietry benefits from it, especially from horse, rabbit and cow. I've been told it saves them having eat their greens!! Little darlings arn't they? I'm afraid I have had to stop the French kissing.

Spiritulist, my cocker is never allowed to kiss me I'm afraid!! :-D

Just a word of warning. I know horse poo doesn't smell like dog poo, but if a horse has had a wormer it can be fatal for dogs. My 2 adore horse poo, but I know when I have wormed my horses, if the horses aren't yours I really would try & stop it. I have read in horse magazines how dangerous it can be.

Thanks so much for this advice Beardy I had no idea!

I would imagine that would be only the Ivermectin kind to collie types.  If horses cattle or sheep are wormed with Panacur the dosage is in fact much lower per bodyweight than it is for dogs.

Anyone wanting a fuller picture might search for previous threads on this.  A member knew of one dog that had died but it was of a very low bodyweight and had eaten a large amount of horse poo.

There is a warning in all the packs of horse wormer regarding the danger to dogs if they ingest the horse pooh after the horse has been wormed & I know my vets tell all horse owners to be careful about the dogs when they gve out horse wormers

Given the chance though, they will eat a lot of it. Tilly my little terrier once ate so much while I was mucking out the field that she had done about a dozen poos that evening in the house. We had been out to the pub for the evening.  She is normally 100 % house trained. Thank god we didn't invite anyone in for a night-cap!! (Or it would have  been a night-crap!!)