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Post by Mr. G. on Dec 6, 2007 15:06:05 GMT -4
Why the hell do dogs eat shit?
Discuss...
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Post by stratman on Dec 6, 2007 15:12:57 GMT -4
Because they have insatiable appetites and they're not very bright.
*Disclaimer, these are my opinions and are not based upon any verifiable scientic facts, that is all*
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Post by earthman on Dec 6, 2007 15:49:44 GMT -4
You guys don't eat dookie?
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Post by jeffhx on Dec 6, 2007 17:07:51 GMT -4
cos it's a cool dog thing to indulge
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Post by daardvark on Dec 6, 2007 17:13:14 GMT -4
In the past it was believed that feces eating, also known as coprophagia, was caused by either poor diet or poor health. However, this theory is not supported by current research. "Behavioral research has discounted the idea that it is a dietary deficiency or a pancreatic enzyme deficiency," says Dr. Jo Ann Eurell, a veterinarian and animal behavior specialist retired from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. "Dogs are historically scavengers, and this is believed to be a scavenger behavior. read in it's entirity www.cvm.uiuc.edu/petcolumns/showarticle.cfm?id=166
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Post by stratman on Dec 6, 2007 17:39:36 GMT -4
In the past it was believed that feces eating, also known as coprophagia, was caused by either poor diet or poor health. However, this theory is not supported by current research. "Behavioral research has discounted the idea that it is a dietary deficiency or a pancreatic enzyme deficiency," says Dr. Jo Ann Eurell, a veterinarian and animal behavior specialist retired from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. "Dogs are historically scavengers, and this is believed to be a scavenger behavior. read in it's entirity www.cvm.uiuc.edu/petcolumns/showarticle.cfm?id=166Mmmm....i may have actually been a little hasty with my disclaimer, it would seem that there is scientific evidence to support my claim after all
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Post by barchordnick on Dec 6, 2007 19:09:01 GMT -4
Fact is dogs are quit intelligent. Seems they can sleep all day and get attention at will. It's really a very nice gig. Dogs eat their own dookie for the bad breath. They then lick their masters face exposing their incredibly bad breath. In return the owner gives then a bone. You see it's simple logic really.
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Post by Tonja Renee on Dec 6, 2007 20:28:07 GMT -4
I think its because dog shit usually smells close enough to their dog food... And our dog would eat constantly if we had his food out there all the time. Still extremely disgusting... especially when they puke indoors.. nasty.
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Post by Mr. G. on Dec 6, 2007 21:18:44 GMT -4
wow... that just brought a whole new level of disgusting to it... take a dookie , eat the dookie , then puke the dookie back up, and guess who has to clean up the puked up dookie... give up?... ME!
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Post by Hunter60 on Dec 6, 2007 22:31:11 GMT -4
Dogs are natures near-perfect self-contained, perpetual sustaining system. Once you fuel it, they can essentially continue to fuel themselves. A closed system. Food goes in, comes back out, goes back in, comes back out ... ;D
Actually, I had a vet tell me once that it has to do with something similar to why they sniff butts. It has to do with their glands in their anal tract and how it secretes a "signature". The dog is essentially "attracted" to it for lack of a better description.
And I can tell you from personal experience that the ladies at the bar DO NOT appreciate a good *sniff* no matter how complimentary I may think it is. ;D
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Post by Rustee on Dec 6, 2007 22:32:06 GMT -4
I never saw either of my dogs we had (when I was younger) eat any. Maybe some breeds are more likely than others? I don't doubt that it originates from some long ago necessary/beneficial adapted behavior that has subsequently turned into instinct.
But hey...little kids eat their boogers. Some mature adults (usually health nuts) drink their own urine. And lastly, many of the more primal tribal cultures still pick the lice outta each others' hair and eat them. Still, if held under a gun, I'd take any of those 3 over dookie any day, or especially vomit dookie. That really is a whole new realm of disgust. It deserves its own word ...I think vomdook strikes a chord so to speak.
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Post by docsimon on Dec 7, 2007 3:29:23 GMT -4
And I can tell you from personal experience that the ladies at the bar DO NOT appreciate a good *sniff* no matter how complimentary I may think it is. ;D Dude, you are drinking in all the wrong places ! I once chased a young women round a pool table in Iowa City on my hands and knees barking at her and trying to bite her ass. She loved it ! OK this event had followed a conversation the went something like "Simon I have the hiccups, scare me" which is just the wrong thing to say to a little drunken lad ! We were all drinking tequila - that qualify as dookie ? rufff ruff !
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Post by Akira on Dec 7, 2007 8:38:15 GMT -4
Don't dogs only have around 30 taste buds? Maybe that's something to do with it, maybe shit just tastes like everything else?
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Post by earthman on Dec 7, 2007 14:12:51 GMT -4
And I can tell you from personal experience that the ladies at the bar DO NOT appreciate a good *sniff* no matter how complimentary I may think it is. ;D Dude, you are drinking in all the wrong places ! I once chased a young women round a pool table in Iowa City on my hands and knees barking at her and trying to bite her ass. She loved it ! OK this event had followed a conversation the went something like "Simon I have the hiccups, scare me" which is just the wrong thing to say to a little drunken lad ! We were all drinking tequila - that qualify as dookie ? rufff ruff ! Lmao. You, sir, are friggin' nuts.
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Post by docsimon on Dec 7, 2007 14:16:10 GMT -4
you sound surprised !
Tee Hee
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Post by Rustee on Dec 7, 2007 19:07:12 GMT -4
Don't dogs only have around 30 taste buds? Maybe that's something to do with it, maybe dookie just tastes like everything else? But isn't most of the taste in the smell, which dogs do phenomenally? If so, it's exponentially more pungent to them than what we would experience...makes it even worse.
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Post by Hunter60 on Dec 7, 2007 21:57:31 GMT -4
And I can tell you from personal experience that the ladies at the bar DO NOT appreciate a good *sniff* no matter how complimentary I may think it is. ;D Dude, you are drinking in all the wrong places ! I once chased a young women round a pool table in Iowa City on my hands and knees barking at her and trying to bite her ass. She loved it ! OK this event had followed a conversation the went something like "Simon I have the hiccups, scare me" which is just the wrong thing to say to a little drunken lad ! We were all drinking tequila - that qualify as dookie ? rufff ruff ! You sir, are my hero!
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Post by stratman on Dec 8, 2007 13:55:15 GMT -4
I've just found out from the GF (her dad's a gamekeeper and dog breeder) that dogs eatin their own dookie is down to a lack of certain vitamins and/or nutrients in their diet (slightly contrary to daardvark's post i know) if any of his dogs (6 of em) do it he changes their food, works for him......
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Post by Skeleton Keys on Dec 8, 2007 17:48:03 GMT -4
Everyone has thier faults, sure. Maybe dogs' imprefections are just particularly disgusting?
I never saw my dog eating his dookie, though that does'nt mean I did'nt condemn him to be a very gross creature.
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Post by Rustee on Jan 13, 2008 23:39:15 GMT -4
Tonight I was reading about the theories of the original domestication of dogs (which presumably were originally wolves). Well a feature of dogs compared to wolves is that they have gone through morphological, physiological, and behavior changes, which seems is a result of being tamed enough to domesticate in the first place (and is illustrated in all domesticated animals in fact). These include smaller bodies, heads and jaws, smaller teeth, different breeding times, fur length and patterns, tail-wagging, whining, and submissiveness to name a few.
In essence, adult dogs retain some of the characteristics of a wolf-pup. The wolf-pup eventually gets the bigger features (head, jaws, teeth, etc.) and outgrows and ceases tail-wagging, barking, and whining, but dogs don't. Conversely the dog doesn't display certain adult wolf traits like regurgitating food for the pups.
When I read that last bit, I made the connection that's relevant here...if dogs are in some ways eternal wolf-puppies, they might still instinctively react as they would if their parent had "deposited" vomit for their benefit. Perhaps this would carry over to dookie as well, I don't know. Something to ponder...who would've thought a discussion on dookie could get so "deep".
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