Coprophagia, anyone? (HELP Homebrewers!)

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The names have been changed to avoid any unnecessary embarrassment.

Critter "A" is an 8 year old, well-adjusted, healthy, male Yellow Labrador Retriever - owned by myself, and raised on Dad's, and similar dry foods.

Critter "B" is an 5 month old, well-adjusted, healthy, female Chocolate Labrador Retriever puppy - owned by The Seeing Eye, and raised on Iam's, as ordered by the Puppy Raiser Program.

Critter "A" is large-framed (tall), but the proper weight for his size (not starving). The problem is: He (Critter "A") finds Critter "B"s turds (processed Iams) magically delicious!! Sometimes he doesn't even wait for them to cool.

After some research, we find that dining on crap, or Coprophagia is common in the animal world - after all, a nursing bitch will eat her pups' poop 'till they (the pups) are old enough to scatter out. In the wild, a predator can smell those milk-fed muffins a mile away.

While canines think it's just peachy to go around chewing on fecal matter, their human counterparts find the practice somewhat unsettling. Seeing one of your best friends woof down a pile of shit can be emotionally scarring, in addition to causing particularly pungent breath for the dung diner.

My research also yielded some possible solutions, the simplest of which is: The addition of brewers yeast to Critter "B"s food. The yeast supposedly doesn't affect the animal, but once processed - makes the resulting dog rockets revolting to even the most die-hard of crap chompers.

I figured since a lot of you guys make your own barleypop, you may know where to score some of this brewers yeast, does anyone besides home brewers use it for anything? Grocery stores around here don't sell it.

Pooped out in PA.

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Good to know. I have one of those dogs; now I just have to get all of the neighbors to give their dogs yeast.

But I've seen a shit-eating grin on a dog

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Dear "Pooped out in PA",

You can get yourself brewer's yeast from any homebrew shop, including over the internet. For example, http://www.stpats.com or http://www.homebrewsupply.com/catalog/category48.html. You might want to look for dry yeast, because it is cheaper than the high-quality liquid yeast. However, I don't have any puppies, so I can't vouch for the ability of the brewer's yeast to change the fecal flavor enough to dissuade your doggies from their disgusting dining.

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Thanks, Justin

Too bad the Internet Nazi's at my place of employment have those sights blocked for us. I'm sure they are highly evil sites.

SHEEESH !!

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Too bad the Internet Nazi's at my place of employment have those sights blocked for us.

That sucks. You'll just have to send an e-mail to your house with the addresses and surf from there.

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That sucks. You'll just have to send an e-mail to your house with the addresses and surf from there.

Already done.

Man, do I ever have a lot of practice doing that. Most of the cool links, and funny shit posted on here is blocked for some reason or another - then I open it at home and wonder why??

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Man, do I ever have a lot of practice doing that. Most of the cool links, and funny shit posted on here is blocked for some reason or another - then I open it at home and wonder why??

Some of them I could understand. Are they doing their screening based on eliminating offense sites, or by only allowing sites that are work related? The former approach is much more tolerant than the latter, with more leeway.

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Some Health food stores sell it....I don't know why but they do