Sometimes, dogs do strange things. Beyond rolling in mud puddles or biting themselves, your pet might drink from toilets or lick its butt. In other cases, it may eat its own poop or, worse, the poop ...

When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of Australia's Kangaroo Island, experts speculated she survived partly by eating other animals' poo. While this survival ...

Dogs have many interesting habits, but one of the strangest for us humans to understand is why our pets eat poo. The term for this behaviour is 'coprophagia', and whilst it’s certainly not the most ...

It is never a pleasant moment when you see your dog doing something you thought only happened in the wild. Watching them eat poop feels confusing and a bit alarming, but it is more common than people ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...

It’s not uncommon for a dog to sniff around a yard, come across a pile of poop, and gobble it up. Or even to eat its own poop. It might sound quite disgusting, but lots of dogs will eat poop at some ...