FYI, this is what I found on the Drs. Foster and Smith website, if anyone else is having this problem with their dogs. Unfortunately, the Dis-Taste and/or For-Bid products aren't options for us since Lefty is eating another person's cat's poop.

Q.
Why does my dog eat its stools?

A.
Dogs eat their stools for a variety of reasons, and this is actually a very common occurrence especially in puppies. One of the primary reasons dogs eat their stools is because as descendants of scavenging predators they have been doing this as a survival technique in lean times for thousands of years. Some dogs will do this out of boredom and still others find the taste appealing, especially when the dogs are fed a high quantity of poorly digested carbohydrates. Other dogs learn the behavior from another resident dog. For whatever reason it occurs, once it is started it then becomes a bad habit and needs to be corrected.
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Q.
Is there anything else I should do other than give Drs. Foster & Smith Dis-Taste?

A.
Changing the diet to one that is lower in carbohydrates and more digestible may make the stools less appealing. Increasing daily exercise also helps. The most important thing the owner can do is to make sure that the stool is not available, which may require a change in your pet's housing or increasing the frequency of waste clean up.
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