Eating the poop of other dogs/animals can spread worms. Eating the poop of horses can poison dogs if the horses have just been de-wormed. Some people find that going to a grain-free food stops poop eating. Dogs don't digest grain well, so there is a lot of it still in their stool and that makes the...

"Coprophagia" is the term for stool eating. It happens a lot for various reasons! It is gross to us, but not to them. www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1551&articleid=155 Eating the poop of other dogs/animals can spread worms. Eating the poop of horses can poison dogs if the...

"Coprophagia" is the term for stool eating. It happens a lot for various reasons! It is gross to us, but not to them. www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1551&articleid=155