Dog eating huge amounts of poo

[Literallypoodle]

I wondered if anyone has any tips for a dog that is eating huge amounts of (other dogs') poo? It's a recent thing in the last couple of months but haven't changed food, nothing wrong with him otherwise, recently wormed etc not under or over weight. All fine at last vet check.
Appreciate that eating poo is pretty standard for dogs but he's absolutely obsessed and if left to his own devices eats quantities so significant that they play havoc with his own toilet habits. He's a 7kg mini poodle so doesn't need a vast quantity of food!
We live in London so unfortunately the reality is that all parks are full of poo. It's not a case of recalling him away from the poo as he loves to sniff about and poo tends to be hidden in long grass or under leaves - so as soon as it's apparent that he's eating and not sniffing it's too late. So the only option would be to walk him on a short lead and not allow any sniffing which would be cruel.
Is a muzzle the only option?

He'll still eat the poo with a muzzle on.

I'd want a more thorough vet check - bloods etc and not just a once over. While you are waiting, try teaching a default leave - lots of videos online on how to do this.

We had a huge trauma within my house a few years ago resulting in numerous police and other professionals etc in and out for the house for some weeks. My five year old dog reacted to the stress by eating her own poo. The only thing that stopped it was to have her on a lead when going in the garden and picking it up and disposing of it immediately. She then started sniffing around other dogs poo on walks and, again, I told her No and led her away. At the time she couldn't have been trusted not to eat it if she was off lead. It went on for a few months and then just stopped, it never happened again

Same problem here. Started about four months ago. Dog is 14 months.Trainer consulted last week said to keep him on the lead, let him sniff the poo but not close enough to eat, tell Leave, as soon as he looks at you click and reward, move on.Then gradually longer lead. But I think as soon as he's off-lead in a few months it'll restart. The rewards are extremely high value, homemade liver cake, sprats, pouches of cat food. He already had a good Leave to build on. And hidden turds derail us. I really feel for you. It's a nasty problem to crack.

My two year old bitch would still eat poo if given the chance, even thoughI have muzzled her for a long time.
Muzzles alone are not the answer, I find I have to be vigilant as well and call her off, or else she tries to eat it whilst wearing the muzzle, which results in a nasty cleaning job.
I just hope she'll grow out of it one day. Her breed isn't mature u til at least 3 years old.
Another bitch will eat horse poo if she can, but that isn't quite so horrible.

As everyone has said, a muzzle alone won't stop him eating poo - you'll need to train alongside it.

It's also not a case of always walking him on a short lead and not letting him sniff - you'll just need to pick your locations carefully for a while so that you can work on the training side of things. Walk on pavements so you can see the poo before he does and practise getting him to leave it. He can still sniff and get enrichment on pavement/street walks.

Does he know a "leave it" command? If not, is his recall solid enough to call him away from the poo or will he carry on eating it while recalling back to you?

My dog is the same. She even tries to eat it when it is still coming out the other dog's bottom. OMG!!!! No shame.

A basket muzzle will help but first try lead walking so you are in control, just while the new behaviour is learnt, and make sure what you are offering is tastier than poop or you won't win.

Oh god, we have the same. Dog has good recall unless there's a poo involved and then it's like he goes deaf. It is GRIM.

God that’s disgusting. Don’t you, I dunno, watch and control your dogs?

if people picked up after their dogs it wouldn’t be a problem.

A friends dog nearly died after eating a drug addicts poo! This is so dangerous. Her dog also saw any cat litter tray as a box of truffles. Why are they so gross and cute?!

Poo is everywhere - pavements, hidden in bushes or under benches, in long grass or off the paths in the woods - in all the places dogs like to go sniffing and exploring.

You can't always spot it and the dogs aren't necessarily out of control just because they've found some poo to munch on.

I feel quite nauseated after reading this thread… who would have a dog 😁

Just to nauseate further, my pup the other day followed my daughter into a bush doing an emergency poo…you can imagine. I don’t think I can unsee it. He’s normally quite good at leave it but certain poos seem to be like a delicacy that drive him crazy 🥴