I feel your pain! Riley was really bad about it when he was a puppy. We did our best to pick it up immediately. He did "sort of" grow out of it.... I say sort of , because he has an immune disorder and occasionally has to take prednisone. I don't know if you have any experience with a dog on Pred but they think they are starving... So, whenever he on the pred, he will race you to a pile! It is horrible!

I used to have a chow that did it as a puppy and my vet at the time told me to put Adolph meat tenderizer on his food. I just sprinkled a little on the top. Supposedly it tastes good when they are eating it the first time, but doesn't taste good the second time..I don't know if it really works or not, but my Chow did stop even bothering with his poop after about a week of that. I tried it with Riley too though, and he could have cared less.

About the pebbles....I wouldn't be too worried as long as they were small. Riley ATE everything in the house and in the yard when he was a puppy ( i mean everything ) and it always showed back up within a day or two.

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