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Your dog is dirty inside your House :

This behavior is painful characteristic of a puppy just introduced into the family environment and declining to disappear when the animal, after a proper education, learned he does "dirty" as the outside the home.

If such behavior lasts, it could be a sign of a medical condition (the dog, sick, can not remember) or a poor education or a behavior disorder.

The syndrome of Abandonment "is one example, when the dog does not dirty the house when it is alone.

Urine "Submission" is a special case: the dog urine in greater or lesser amount, for example the return of teachers, after being alone, or when he was reprimanded or when it is particularly agitated. It is an emotional phenomenon, which does not punishing.

As in previous cases and for all problems, it is necessary to explore and understand what is causing the trouble. Having excluded any cause disease, we can intervene to modify the behavior of the animal, if possible on a lasting and definitive.

Coprophagia is defined as the ingestion (-phage) of dung (co-). This behavior is normal and even vital for some species (rodents and rabbits) in which some essential nutrients (vitamins B group) are produced by synthesis of the bacterial flora of the colon.

In these species, the capacity for absorption and assimilation of these nutrients are very limited in subsequent portions of the digestive tract, these animals must ingest their own faeces (or congeners) for fear of severe food deprivation. In domestic carnivores, except the normal stool licking young pups from their mothers, which allows grooming and stimulation perinea defecation reflex, regular coprophagia is considered an eating disorder.

Coprophagy present little health risk to dogs which has a gastric acidity capable of neutralizing the majority of potentially pathogenic bacteria. The major risk to be taken into account when Coprophagia still the transmission of parasites (Giardia cysts, or coccidia ookystes of Cryptosporidium).

It is therefore important to deal quickly disruption. But again, the origin of these symptoms may be multiple and treatment should be considered by an experienced professional.