05-06-2004, 08:03 AM
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Dog feces in compost?
writes:
Yep, that falls under "accessability". By preference, dogs eat the
stool of some other species, then that of other dogs, and as a last
resort, their own. More MEAT protein in the diet tends to reduce (or
sometimes eliminate) the behaviour. Soy-based diets encourage it,
evidently due to methionine deficiency (since it can be mitigated by
adding the purified amino acid).
Hmmmm. I was told decades ago that dogs, as well as other predator
species, do this to absorb the smell of their prey so as not to be so
detectable. Also that is why they will roll in manure, etc.
Perhaps if higher meat diets reduces it, that only provides validation to
what was told to me.
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