Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, dogs do strange things. Beyond rolling in mud puddles or biting themselves, your pet might drink from toilets or lick ...

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You may not want to admit it, but your dog has probably eaten poop once or twice. While this type of behavior makes dog owners shudder, it’s shockingly common for our four-legged companions to eat ...

Dr. Michael “Dr. T” Tokiwa is a practicing small-animal veterinarian, hospital owner, mentor, and advisor who believes great medicine starts with trust—and grows through collaboration. Dr. Michael “Dr ...

Plenty of stuff divides us as people, but there’s one thing we can all agree on: poop smells bad. No matter what you eat, no matter how healthy you are, your ...

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not always apply. Coprophagy is the act of eating feces, and for many species it ...

New research explains how eating feces (known as coprophagy) shapes wild birds' digestive tracts (gut biota), enabling them to absorb lost or deficient nutrients and adjust to seasonal variations in ...

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 ...

“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: ...