[Dailydrool] Pooh Eating

[Linda Gardner]

Unfortunately, eating pooh is more common than most people think.  Two  
of my bassets were addicted to the stuff.  Jake would wait until our  
bagel Snoopy would go out to do his business and then catch the pooh  
as it was coming out (talk about gross!).  Nothing I did could break  
him of the habit.  And he, too, would overdose on occasion and it  
would come up.  It certainly is the grossest thing I have ever  
encountered.  Makes plain puke pale in comparison.  A couple of dogs  
after we lost Jake, we got Bubba.  Bubba was almost as bad as Jake.   
I've tried DisTaste from Foster and Smith on both of them, but it  
didn't work, and it was very expensive.  You have to give it to all  
your dogs and it's pricey.  Elwood ate pooh for a while, and he was  
the only one who was "cured" by DisTaste.  I'm not sure why.  Bubba is  
gone, and now we have Barney.  I think Barney has tasted it a couple  
of times, but hopefully he won't get hooked like Jake and Bubba.   
We'll see - we've only had him a few months.  The only thing we could  
do was try to stay on top of the pooh in the yard.  Not easy when the  
temperature is 10 degrees out.

Linda, Serving Wench to the lovely Lucy (I was the calendar girl in  
the bathtub yesterday!) and Barney (I'm a real Gardner dog now - not a  
foster!)