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eating his poop

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Question
We really love are dog Fortune he is a shih-zue.   but we take him out to use the restroom and he eats poop and he comes in and noone gives him attishion and wonders why   HELP ME Pplease

Answer
You can search for Coprophagia on the internet this is the term for "poop eating dogs" and find that this is a very common and normal dog thing.  Please visit this web page for a really nice article:
http://www.animalgazette.com/archive/showarticle.php?articleID=105?source=RSS
Hope this helps
Deanna