My beloved GSD has become incontinent through Degenerative myelopathy.
He often poos whilst lying down, without realizing it. Then he gets up and looks at it with surprise as if he has no idea where it came from.
Today, I saw him get up, look at it, then try to eat it. I stopped him immediately and he looked all sad - it's the first time I've shouted at him in years because he's so good. I suspect he may have been doing this in the night, as we often come down to find poo but sometimes just find crumbs.. I've been wondering where the crumbs came from.
Please don't anyone tell me to put him down. I'm monitoring his condition very carefully, I'm fully aware of what's ahead of me and both the vets and I agree that he's fine at the moment and doing well. We cope really well with the incontinence, he's still enjoying life.
My question is why would he start doing this now? And is there anything I can do to prevent it?
I have recently started feeding him Bran flakes in his food, on the advice of the vet to add more fibre to his diet to make his poo more regular. Could the Bran flakes be what's tempting him...?
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Elderly dog eating poo - why?
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UnGoogleable · 19/12/2015 13:05
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