[eevon01]

Dear all,

I'm very troubled by the fact that my dog, Cookie de Beagle has a very bad habit of eating and playing with her poo. She is 10 months old now, and still doing it after various scoldings, beatings, praising for not eating poo with treats etc.

The situation is like this. She is kept in a playpen connected to her crate (The crate and playpen is in the house). She is usually potty trained to poo inside her cage. When we're around, we will let her out to the living room, and take her for walks at times. The reason that we can't let her out 24/7 is because she keep searching for things to destroy, thus she still need our monitoring whenever she's out.

The problem occurs when we're either not in the living room, or out. She'll poo, eat some of her poo immediately, and drag her poo across the playpen to play. Her pooing time is still inconsistent although we feed her same time very morning and evening. But when we're near, she'll poo, get out from the cage, but sometimes will still nibble on it.

We tried detterent pills, obviously didn't work. Pineapple, garlic... neither works. Sprayed chilli padi water, vinegar, pepper, minyak angin... didn't work.

We're totally clueless now. We're trying the time-out method, by short leash her outside for an hour. But it doesn't seem to work.

Dear all, is there any solution to the problem?

Sincerely,
Eevon.