Originally Posted by
mightiesarah
Hi all,
So, I just joined because we just rescued a 6 month male Berner named "Jax." Anyway, he's been really fantastic for being just a baby, and has only gotten his mouth around a bar of soap, a sock, and a flip-flop... but he dropped them once he was corrected, and has since not picked up anything else. Great.
Well, until he started to eat poop. And I mean, REALLY gobbles up the poop, like a recently dumped teen girl eats chocolate. He doesn't do it at home because we pick up poop right away, but he does it at the daycare place because sometimes there's just a lot of poop laying around the "potty" area. He's eating Canidae Lamb and Rice, which he had been eating with his previous owners and has been eating for at least a month or two now... and I understand that Canidae is a good food, so I don't think he's eating poop because of a vitamin/mineral deficiency. I think he just eats it because he likes it. He can grow out of this, right? If not, is there anything I can do other than modifying the behavior through training?
He also got a few pebbles in his mouth today and I think he swallowed a couple. They were pea-sized and I think they will probably pass. Right? I understand what to look out for if he does have an intestinal blockage, but just curious if anyone else had a berner who eats rocks. Haha
Oi.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!!
Sarah