I know we have done this one to death but what is the current thinking on causes in a three year old dog ?
rabbit is a delicacy to the point of being sick and cat is pretty good to. her own isnt a problem and atm neither is other dogs
and for those who know me yes its my problem child again lol

The only way is prevention so I use the leave command which works well.

Normal canine behaviour, other animals especially they enjoy it and with herbivores there is a lot of undigested matter.

Also dogs needs the enzymes from the gut flora due to eating a modern denatured sterile diet.

It's one reason that Raw green tripe often helps with digestion.

I have never found a cure for mine -and it seems to be one of these things where dogs copy each other, so pretty much every single dog I have will do it. Impossible to pick up constantly after everyone but also I frequently see one dog standing behind another waiting for instant delivery! :( Healthy dogs, raw fed etc etc, it's just a habit it seems impossible to break.

Mine are raw fed and tripe features high on the favourite list. Prevention except muzzling is tricky as it's cats in our garden that she digs for and yesterday after running in the fields and woods she must of consumed all the rabbit poo in the world,on arriving home she went straight for a long drink which was unusual and followed it by vomiting three small lakes of rabbit poo. The oddest thing is that at three it's only recently become a problem yesterday being the worst. No change in anything else except for a yeast infection in her ear and antibiotic anti fungal drops.the others don't do it very odd

if she's on antibiotics, have you tried giving her Bio yogurt?

Following on from what Brainless wrote about other animals poo containing the gut flora needed with a denatured and strile diet, Yoghurt may be just the thing to sop the poo eating.

Oh and a really strong Leave IT!! command, preferably said very firmly in a voice that makes their blood run cold :-D  <evil grin>

Definitely try probiotics.  Pro-kolin is the best stuff IMO but also hideously expensive, but you can get Yumove's Yumpro Bioactiv which contains the same beneficial bacterial strain.  Or yes, yoghurt :)

Personally I'll be muzzle shopping soon for Saffi for this but cat and other animal poo is not the problem here, but a years-long habit of eating her own and my other dogs' poo which is just spiralling out of control since she's been on steroids for 4 months!  Thank dog, she'll be starting to be weaned off them next week but it's going to be a long process and potentially, may not work (autoimmune thing) so I'm just giving up and getting that muzzle!

I once had a young rescue cat with a permanently "runny tummy".  Every conceivable test came back clear so the vet suggested yoghurt.  It didn´t cure the problem (the cat eventually grew out of it) but the cat loved the yoghurt and it has made giving him a pill (medication) dead easy for the rest of his life as I always gave the yoghurt immediately after giving a pill.

Funnily the penny has dropped between ear infection and poo eating.i will be loooking at probiotics and natural yoghurt. Muzzling will be a nightmare for her she hates things around her head and muzzle. Nothing would get her to accept a headcollar and stupidly i didnt think when i got her harness. And the ibe we have goes over her head.works beautifully byt over the head. Will see what the probiotics and yoghurt does first. As for blood running cold commands still working on those no ones blood ever runs cold when i command lol

>As for blood running cold commands still working on those no ones blood ever runs cold when i command lol

It should do if it is really stern.  I got a Bearded Collie to drop a freshly roasted whole chicken on command.  So it does work if you get the tone right.  (I never got it to work on a bloke though.)  :-)

>As for blood running cold commands still working on those no ones blood ever runs cold when i command lol

Try lowering the tone of your voice ;-)  and speak s l o w e r.

Most people when trying to be assertive,  pitch their voice higher.   And of course,  most women's voices are higher pitched anyway.

If you can aim for your boots,  and at the same time be stern,  you may well surprise them,  and yourself  :-)

You really do explain things better than me Dill.

I can explain how my thinking goes though.  I phoned to make a doctors appointment recently.  After making a time and date I thanked the receptionist and went to hang up.  Wait the receptionist said.  Can I have your name please.  Sigh!  Why can't people read my mind?

I often post thinking that I don't need to give any further details.  I am wrong!

LOL

I know what you mean Jean :-)

My father was the same.   It was a constant source of frustration for him,  that shop assistants didn't know what he wanted when he said "yes,  I think I'll have half a pound"

By the way,  I've found 'the voice'  works on dogs and small children,  never worked on a fella though,  so you aren't alone in that ;-)

>After making a time and date I thanked the receptionist and went to hang up.  Wait the receptionist said.  Can I have your name please.

LOL! :-D

Off-topic, but that's why our work answer-machine doesn't take messages. We need to be able to get a few more details than a breaking-up message that requests 'more of Max's little white pills'!