When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of Australia's Kangaroo Island, experts speculated she survived partly by eating other animals' poo. While this survival ...

It’s a problem that ofter shocks new dog owners. It’s one of the less glamorous sides of pet ownership: discovering your dog eating poo, whether it’s their own, another dog’s, or even - even more ...

You may not want to admit it, but your dog has probably eaten poop once or twice. While this type of behavior makes dog owners shudder, it’s shockingly common for our four-legged companions to eat ...

It’s not uncommon for a dog to sniff around a yard, come across a pile of poop, and gobble it up. Or even to eat its own poop. It might sound quite disgusting, but lots of dogs will eat poop at some ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...

Feces Consumption and Canine Evolution The anti-parasite hypothesis makes sense, but it does not explain why, when given the opportunity, dogs eat human feces. I first heard of this last year when ...