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 ...

Sometimes, our dogs do strange things. Besides biting their dirty paws or rolling around in puddles, dogs occasionally drink from toilets or lick their butts. In other cases, your pup may even eat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 6.5 million tons of [mostly] plastic-wrapped dog poop winds up in landfills in the United States every year. As most cities see it, that’s the only safe option. Unlike wildlife scat, which ...

Kylie Soanes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Complaints of dog poop-smeared sidewalks are on the rise in New York City — and the Department of Sanitation is rolling out a public ad campaign aimed at reversing that stinky trend. Between Jan. 1 ...

Rangers working for Exmoor National Park have asked dog walkers to treat trees with the same care as their Christmas trees at ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A black Yorkie-poo was rescued in Schenectady, N.Y., on Christmas morning after seemingly being abandoned inside a taped ...