Poop-eating may be similar to other negative attention ... It can take time to break a bad habit, so be patient.

He doesn’t dive for every poop he comes across (thank goodness!), but it certainly happens more often than both he and I would like. So, why do some dogs eat poop and can anything be done to ...

Lambin suggests that perhaps people have evolved to find poop inherently disgusting so we won’t eat it and get sick. “When a dog sees feces, it doesn’t seem to react as if it smells bad ...