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Originally Posted by Peaches
My 10 year old male started eating poop about 6 months ago. Not sure why, nothing's changed dietwise.
Now the new puppy is doing the same. He actually followed my 13 year old female outside and ATE IT AS IT CAME OUT! 
I tried the Deter tablets when older dog started it and it didn't work. The vet suggested meat tenderizer. They didn't like it on their food so I bought the unseasoned kind and they still didn't like it.
I've mixed some up with water and I'm going to make it like a gravy tomorrow and see if they'll eat it then - AND if it works.
I have a decently sized fenced yard and with 4 dogs, it's impossible to cover all of it up with something. When I DO find some, I either toss it over the fence or douse it with cayenne pepper - the pepper I THINK is helping. But again, finding all the poop in the yard is near impossible.
Any suggestions?!!? (no, I'm not getting rid of the dogs....if I was going to do that it would have been when the puppy destroyed 4 chairs and a coffee table  _ |
I trained a rottie to jump through fire, not wince from gunfire, bite and stop biting on command. Never could get the fucker not to graze on shit in the backyard. Never got a straight answer about it either other than it might be something missing from their diet (he was on Iams, prolly ate better than I do).
There is packets of stuff you can get to feed the female that makes her shit taste bad (this I can't understand..it could taste worse???) and if that doesn't work...muzzle him in the yard and see if it's something habitual.
I'm willing to bet it's hormonal. My male was fixed late (after he mated once), and the female never fixed, and he used to be worse with it in the fall and winter for some reason. Evertime I've heard of it, it's been a male dog doing the grazing and an intact bitch around.