To modify an animal behavior, in first place it is necessary to identify the cause. A clinical exam will discard problems nutritional or metabolic.
If the problem is nutritional the vitamin supplement of the diet will solve the problem and in the cases of metabolic problems, the treatment of the disease will also solve the problem.
Now, being a behavior problem, some measured they are necessary for the animal to give up of that habit.
In first place, reduce the access to the feces through it ready elimination. Walk with the arrested dog to the guide, to facilitate to move away him of the feces.
Don’t allow access to the street without supervision, unless the animal has defecated and the area is free from fecal material.
Move the sanitary trays for an inaccessible area to the dog.
Put a muzzle in the walks. Give a reward of food to the dog when he defecates, doing with that he waits for the food instead of seeking for feces.
Teach the command “Leaves” in order to call the dog for far away from the feces and reward him when he obeys.
Provide valves of escape alternatives for the activities and meals, such as toys feeders and games of finding food.
Use repellent with unpleasant smell to the animal.
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Coprophagy is the ingestion of feces. That behavior is more observed in dogs and at first it happens with the ingestion of their own feces or the one of another animal. There are different motivations for that behavior. To involve with coprophagy is normal for most of the dogs, although it can be considered offensive on the part of the humans.
During the first weeks of life, it is necessary and normal that the mother makes stimulation to stimulate the excretion of the nestlings. She consumes, then, them fecal and urinary excrete as the nestlings eliminate them, providing a way of maintaining the clean nest to that the nestlings are walking.
Young animals use several senses to join information on his environment. To prove feces can be part of that normal exploratory behavior. Dogs in an impoverished atmosphere (empty atmospheres for long periods) they can use the coprophagy as an exploratory escape valve.
Although it is difficult for the humans to understand, the dog can find the rewarding ingestion of fecal material, due to his smell, flavor, texture, etc. That can be particularly true regarding the fecal material of cats, for which the dogs have preference for consumption.
Dogs with appetite increase can look for fecal material as middle of satiating his excessive appetite. Conditions of bad absorption, inadequate diet, they can need additional nutrients.
The dogs can discover that the coprophagy results in the owner’s immediate attention and subsequently they use the behavior to obtain her.
Although rare, some dogs practice coprophagy as oral manifestation of a compulsive upset.
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To modify an animal behavior, in first place it is necessary to identify the cause. A clinical exam will discard problems nutritional or metabolic.