[Dailydrool] Copycat poo eating

[Riche Churchill]

Maybe it is partly a copycat thing, now that I consider the matter. None 
of our dogs did it before the Shih Tzu came along... and we forgave her 
as she was rescued from a puppy mill after being discarded at age 5. 
Considering she'd spent all her life thereto in a cage raising puppies, 
and obviously never having had enough to eat (she has no teeth), she 
probably ate any scrap of anything lying around. (She had also never 
experienced grass, sunlight or a loving hand. It has been 3 years now, 
and she has just begun to allow her tummy to be exposed and petted -- 
but just so far -- going completely over on her back is not yet achieved 
and may never be.)

Still, copy-catting or not, they KNOW we disapprove. It's obvious by the 
way they try to slink back into the house, nonchalantly averting or 
lowering their heads in hopes we won't notice what looks like a cigar 
sticking out of their mouths. The more clever ones don't let anything 
stick out. Don't EVER tell me they don't know they're doing something we 
don't want done. There isn't an Oscar nominee in the bunch.

My vet says a couple of his dogs do it, too, so all hope is lost unless 
some laboratory somewhere is working feverishly to come up with a 
solution. There'd certainly be enough customers.

Riche (resigned)