Our Siberian husky which is approximately 3 months old has the disgusting habit of eating her own feces. She does not do this when we take her out for a walk, just whenever she poops inside the house. She is paper trained and will poop on the paper, only to turn around and eat it right up. I am not sure if this is a harmful habit, but we sure don’t like the way it makes her breath smell.
Does anyone have a solution that we can try to get her to stop doing this?
Take her out for walks more often so she doesn’t need to do her business in the house and train her to hold her bowels. Paper training is for puppies. At three months old, it’s time to take the paper away.
Training and especially caring for a Husky in Taiwan is very demanding. I hope you have a lot of free time on your hands.
It’s nothing to get too worried about. Usually if a dog eats its own feces it means that it isn’t digesting properly or getting enough nutrients. Dog’s crap still has a lot of nutrients in it when they let it out and if they aren’t getting enough of the nutrients into their bodies, they’ll make up for it by eating their own crap. Maybe a change in diet is in call for.