Eigth month femela yorkshire terrier

Question
How can i train my femela yorkshire terrier to stop eating her stool?

Answer
Your one sentence question is an important one but doesn't give me much information to work with. All I know is she's a female Yorkshire terrier, 8 months old.

I would like to know:

How long has she been doing this or did she just start?

Is she eating all of her food when she's fed, or does she leave some in her bowl?

Are you feeding her enough food at each feeding, and how many times a day?

Is her weight approximate for her age and size?

Is her stool soft, hard, brown, yellowish, black?

Have you talked to your veterinarian about the problem?

Has she been checked for worms?

Is your dog housebroken"

Does she do this in the house, outside, or both?

Is she getting enough exercise each day? Describe.

Does she have toys to play with?

If the below suggested solution does not work, you can answer these questions for me, and I will be happy to help you further.

I will tell you that a dog eating its stool is not rare or is it uncommon. A good percentage of the time; at your dog's age--it is simply a bad habit that somewhere along the line got started and, unfortunately, grew worse.

If your dog is on a schedule and relieves herself around the same time each day, the simplest cure-all is to keep an eye on her and pick-up the feces when she goes. In her presence, when she does relieve herself, praise her for going, and then pick-up the stool immediately. If it looks like she is about to eat it, firmly call her by name, immediately followed with the word NO! When she retreats from the feces, praise her and for a short period leave it there and use it as bait. See if she goes back to it and, again, appears that she is going to eat it. At the moment she attempts to bite into it, again, firmly call her by name, immediately followed with the word NO!

This approach is simply a matter of repition until you get to the point where you go outside with your dog and, after she goes, she ignores the stool.

If it is a habit this behavior technique should work. Also, if it is a habit, keep the area clean from feces, and , I promise you the nasty habit will stop in a short period of time.

Good luck. Please try my approach and, if you have no luck after 2 weeks, send me a follow-up along with the answer to the questions above.

Harry