dog scavenging other dogs and cats poo

[jooseyfruit]

and has hideous diarrhoea. even soiling in his crate at night, he never vomits though. stools are free from blood.

with each bout, I've starved him for 24 hours, followed by small, bland meals, then back onto his kibble (Harringtons)nutritional info

He is constantly on the look out for poo to eat.

Does this kibble look ok to all the doggy food experts?

Is it worth looking at another diet.

I'm going to have to muzzle him aren't I

sorry for rambling

I'm always surprised at how dog owners see muzzles very negatively. We muzzle two of our three greyhounds routinely on walks, and it pays dividends since they can't get their noses into the various unsavoury things that we charming humans leave dumped around our parks. This is particularly a problem in urban areas - it's quite common to see pizza in boxes, half eaten burgers, chicken meals (aaargh! bones!!), even sandwiches dumped in various places in parks. All of these can be dangerous (bones) or full of bacteria/food poisoning bugs. In the summer, a lot of the parks will be full of those disposable BBQs plus bits of food. Quite sickeningly messy, and very bad for any dog that's around. The unmuzzled grey is fortunately not interested in dodgy food but does have an obsession with horse poo - happily, quite rare in urban areas.

If he's having diarrhoea regularly I would get him checked out by a vet - he could have picked up a parasite infection and might need some ABs to sort it out. Also, you need to make sure he is being wormed regularly - he could be picking up all sorts of unpleasant little wrigglies from other dogs' poo.

i would change his food to something lower in protein, the harringtons is 21% protein which is quite high.

My dog used to eat his own poo and i discovered that the protein content plays a part in it so i feed him a lower protein food, (chappie dry was the lowest i could find at around 17%) and it made a huge difference. He now just likes the occassional snack on rabbit poo and if he gets the chance he would never say no to horse dung! He doesn't bother with any other poo now though.

He is on a different food now as well.

Dogs love eating poo, that is what they do unfortunately.

thank you.