Board Thread:Friend Code Exchange/@comment-26544836-20151007233115/@comment-26501887-20151010052808

I actually like one of the main reasons puppies do this...apparently mother dogs will eat their litter's poop while they are still drinking mother's milk as a way to protect the puppies from predators. They do this so their puppy smells don't attract predators in the wild and then when the puppies are weaned, they imitate what their mothers have done and start eating their own. If they continue to do this after they're a year old, that indicates something might be missing nutritionally or they may have parasites that don't allow for nutrients to be absorbed by their bodies. Actually kind of cool! But yes, that is gross when they want to kiss you after doing it. 😷 This was new information I learned today. 😃 Apparently, one of Kianna's puppies does this quite often and none of us could figure out why. The great power of the internet at our disposal to look up information that has us baffled. 😀