There is a product that you can get from the pet store to add to the food of the pet whose poop is being consumed. That should stop right away.

There is a product that you can get from the pet store to add to the food of the pet whose poop is being consumed. That should stop right away.

We are having the same issue with our 6 month old puppy but he eats cat poop. It's the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. He sits at the cat box while our cat is using it and waits. It's awful. I have however noticed in the last month or so it hasn't been as bad so I am hoping he is outgrowing this.

My first dog did that too. I trained him to sit whenever he wanted something to give me the opportunity to inspect the item and let him have it or not. I had to keep him on a 6 foot leash so that he couldn't get anything on his own. I know people must have thought I lost my mind making a dog sit when he wanted to eat poop, but it worked. I would also put treats on the ground and let him find them so that sometimes he DID get a reward for sitting. Even when he got older, if he was hanging out in the kitchen while I was cooking and dropped something, instead of diving for the bit of food, he'd give the most perfect sit.

The product that bethdipalma was talking about is Forbid. You sprinkle the powder on their food (I'd put it in both of their food) and it makes the poop taste bad.

Dogs are attracted to feces because there is undigested food in it. If you want to train your dog not to put anything in its mouth from the ground then you need to be vigilant. You have a couple of choices, you can use either a very small dab of toothpaste (most dogs dont like minty flavored things, beagles are notorious for eating anything and everything) or you can use a small jar of tobasco sauce, the minute your other dog does its duty, or you catch your dog going towards the deposit, try and corrrect its behavior by putting her into a sit stay position. This is positive reward training, but it wont stop your dog from trying to eat something it shouldnt - this is where things get important. I witnessed our neighbors dog eat something on the ground which turned out to be poisoned. The dog was rushed to the vet and eventually was saved. I taught my dog with toothpaste, I reprimanded him for eating something off the ground by first saying DROP it, giving him a opportunity to obey the command, then following up with a dab of toothpaste - it does not have to be a big dab, just enough to get them to associate the bad taste and the reprimand with the action of picking up something they shouldnt be doing. Now I have had people get on me saying toothpaste is bad for you to swallow, granted, but 4 dabs of toothpaste is not going to be nearly as detrimental as being posioned or getting sick. The sell very small travel sized tobasco sauce bottles if the toothpaste does not appeal to you ro your dog decides it likes it. It took my dog four attempts and he never picked up anything after that. Beagles are going to take more time. As far as the water goes, go get yourself a travel non spill bowl, It is plastic, has a lid with a little hole in the center of the lid, where the dog will drink from, this may sow her down enough that she does not regurgitate her water, good luck

The healthiest thing you can do is pick up the poop ASAP.
Puppies as well as dogs do this all the time and for different reasons, but none the less it is not healthy. It can add harmful bacteria to the digestive track and cause all kinds of problems. Things like adding tobasco sauce may work to keep the dog away from it, but hot pepper sauce is not good for a dogs digestive track either if he does eat it.
As far a dog eating cat poop that's even worse if the cat goes outside...it's a rare set up for a dog to get toxmoplasmosis which dogs usually don't get.

the one drop of tobasco sauce is not enough to effect a dogs digestive track, and my Aussie use to eat 3 alarm pieces of rib without issue. The drop of sauce is better for training as a deterant than for the dog to 1. keep eating poop 2. get poisoned by something someone left on the ground just for dogs like this. It took my friends beagle 6 times of dosing with the sauce, equally 6 drops in a two week period, now he does not pick up anything...it works