Pineapple juice and dogs

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Hi I've read that you can put pineapple juice on dogs food to stop them eating their poo:(. Can you please let me know how much I should use. Shes about 12 weeks old and is eating 4 times a day (dried food).

I have had dogs in the past but none half as troublesome as this one.

Many thanks

marmitepotato

I wouldn't do anything like that until I had seen my vet. Puppies have very delicate tummies ( yes really!) pineapple is very acidic. The vets will give you advice on how to handle this problem. Good luck.

elsien

Plus it doesn't work - didn't with mine anyway.
Bear in mind that although we think it is a revolting thing for them to do, as far as your pup is concerned if it smells like food and tastes like food, all she's doing is having another light snack. She really isn't doing it just to annoy you and has absolutely no idea why you don't like it.

It is a possibility (and again this is just on my personal experience) that if the food doesn't suit the dog, it's not digested properly so they are more likely to regard it as edible when it reappears. If you're worried talk to your vet about a more easily digestable food. (It can also happen for other reasons such as if the dog's come from an unclean environment such as a puppy farm. )

Fire_Fox

Pineapple juice is high in sugar as well as being acidic, it won't do your puppy's teeth or blood sugar levels any good. Sometimes eating poop is believed to be down to nutrient deficiencies or possibly simple hunger/ blood sugar peaks and troughs. Have you considered a different type of food? If it is a high cereal dry food perhaps switching to one higher in meat (protein and fat), lower in grains (carbs) to keep his blood sugar more stable, smaller portion sizes and smaller poops?

ollow

Thank you all for your advice, going to the vets on Friday so I will have a word with them then.

She's on green dog food, these are the ingredients

Ingredients:

Macro nutrients!

Turkey !(31% dry » 64.4% fresh*), whole white rice, vegetables and herbs (15%), whole brown rice (14%), whole oats, whole barley, turkey fat.!

* see 'meat content analysis' on left hand panel

Micro nutrients

Vitamins: !A, Beta Carotene, C, D, E, K, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, B complex. Choline, Folic Acid, !Calcium, Chromium, Iron, Magnesium, Phos, Selenium, Zinc. Plus all other essential elements. All from natural sources.

thorsoak

Actually, it is pumpkin, not pineapple, that is supposed to stop cophragia.

As she is still so young, you should try to be with her every time she poops - and pick it up immediately. That way you remove the "treat" before she can scoff it.

krlyr

Pineapple is used for coprophagia too - it is the enzyme bromelain that is supposed to help the dog digest the food and therefore a) not feel the need to eat poo for more nutrition and/or b) the end product be better digested and therefor less appealing to eat (many cheaper foods are poorly digested so a lot passes right through and appeals to the dog just as much second time around). You could give a bromelain supplement instead.

Swan_2

elsien wrote: »

Plus it doesn't work - didn't with mine anyway.
Bear in mind that although we think it is a revolting thing for them to do, as far as your pup is concerned if it smells like food and tastes like food, all she's doing is having another light snack. She really isn't doing it just to annoy you and has absolutely no idea why you don't like it.

It is a possibility (and again this is just on my personal experience) that if the food doesn't suit the dog, it's not digested properly so they are more likely to regard it as edible when it reappears. If you're worried talk to your vet about a more easily digestable food. (It can also happen for other reasons such as if the dog's come from an unclean environment such as a puppy farm. )

that makes total sense

I dogsit for a friend & he feeds his dog on a well-known brand of pouches from the supermarket & I've always thought it smelled the same when excreted as it does when it's fresh out of the pack _pale_

vicx

Before you start adding anything in to your dogs meals you need to find out why she is eating her own poo, there are many reasons why she could be doing it. It could be a behavioural or medical problem - if it is the latter then you will need to visit the vet.

Is your dog toilet trained? Has she been told off for pooing where she shouldn't? If she has been told off, she may think that she was being punished for pooping, rather than for pooping in the house so is wanting to hide the evidence.

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She is mostly toilet trained by that I mean she'll go outside unless it's raining, she even walks to the door to be let out.

I pick up most of her poos straight away, but if she goes under the trampoline it takes me a bit longer to get to them, I do call her away tell her she's a good dog and give her a treat. But she doesn't always come.

She doesn't get told off for going in the house, I was advised to try and startle her and then take her outside and praise as above, which I do. I spoke to the vet nurse about ths before and she said to redirect her attention, which I'm trying, she also mentioned some powder that could be used or a tablet.

Swan_2

I don't know much about dogs, I was posting about a human reaction to dog food & dog poo

apologies for muddying the waters