How to correct the dog's food picking

How to correct the dog picking up food

1. When the dog is young, if the environment where the dog goes is safe and hygienic, the owner can be relatively calm and do not need to interfere too much. When it passes through the exploration period, after about seven or eight months, the dog's desire for food will decrease , there will be no random picking of food.

2. Don't take food out of the dog's mouth. The behavior of snatching will make the dog think that what he has snatched is good. This behavior will be repeated again and again, which will make it do this deliberately in order to get your attention, causing it to When you see something and realize that you have seen it, no matter what it is, you will swallow it into your own mouth first, and it is very serious at this point.

3. What the owner has to do is to ignore and train it, and give it an appropriate punishment. After the dog has eaten it, it feels that this is actually very common, and it has been punished, so it will not pick up food next time.

4. Let the dog stop picking up food first, and then gradually improve. When it is very serious, you can put a mask on the dog when you go out.

5. In the process of going out, the owner carries some small snacks with him. Once the dog picks up food, he will exchange it with snacks. When the dog is rewarded by you again and again, he will understand that picking up food is not good, and he will pick it up in the future Just give it to the master, because the master will give other good things.

Causes of dog eating

1. Natural gluttony

Many dogs naturally like to eat. Even if they are full, they will find something to eat. Sometimes they will secretly search for something while the owner is not paying attention. This greedy and smart dog is easy to gain weight.

2. Curiosity plays a role

It is said that children are very curious, and a dog with a temperament similar to that of a child has the same curiosity. The way dogs explore new things is mostly gnawing, biting, licking, and eating. So it likes to explore with its mouth.

3. Caused by parasites in the body

If there are a large number of parasites in the dog's body, it may cause metabolic disorders and pica, which is eating indiscriminately. In this case, the dog should be dewormed. Usually the owner should help the dog to do regular deworming work, whether it is internal or external.

4. Lack of trace elements

When the owner feeds the dog, he does not pay attention to the nutritional combination, which leads to the dog's nutritional imbalance and lack of trace elements. Then the dog will have symptoms of abnormal eating such as gnawing walls and eating soil, grazing grass and poop. Usually, the dog should be fed some trace element tablets regularly to help the dog supplement trace elements in time.