Delilah has a nasty habit.
I really thought we had broken her of the habit, in fact last week at obedience class I proudly said, “She doesn’t do that anymore.”
This Thursday she proved me wrong by burping in my face, I can’t even begin to tell you how disgusting the smell was, it lingered for at least five minutes.
I had been using Solid Gold S.E.P (Stop Eating Poop) but the supplement was expensive, and since we feed them raw well I had to cut expenses somewhere. I heard that pineapple will make the poop undesirable so I’ve been packing their kongs with pineapple chunks.
Someone suggested that I should put hot sauce on the poop, but I figure if I’m going outside to sprinkle hot sauce I might just as well pick up the poop.
Which is what I did this afternoon.
This is our yard. As you can see (which somehow we missed when we looked at the house) it’s really not all that functional. It is fenced in so the dogs can be outside without us. But it also has a lot of low, scrubby growth out there so we really don’t use it a lot.
I’ve told you before I am a lazy busy dog owner.
My friend Sherri once told me, “I don’t worry about the poop, it dissolves on its own.”
Well that doesn’t really seem to hold true with my dog’s poop. At least if you are judging by the amount of poop I picked up today.
I’m pretty sure there is still some poop out there, but I got a LOT of it up. After about a half an hour out there my back was killing me and I’d had enough. Plus we were leaving for my grandson’s 4th birthday party. (Between picking up poop and an hour at Bounce Town, I’m just about ready for a hot tub.)
So now my treat bag, and clicker are next to the back door along with my boots and I am going to see if I can teach Delilah to “leave it.”
After picking up so much poop I told Hubby today
1) I want a pooper scooper
2) I want one of those Doggie Dooley’s
3) I know why she eats it, there are bones and chunks of carrots in there, it is just another food source for her.
I realize she will probably always eat deer poop, she couldn’t possibly pass that up. But I thought we’d broken her of the habit of eating dog poop.
Hubby said it best today, Delilah is in survival mode.
ALWAYS.
Knowing she came from Louisiana around the time of Katrina and Rita it’s very possible she had to survive on her own for a period of time.
How do you help a dog with these issues overcome them?
I’m open to suggestions.
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