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Let me start out with, sorry if this is in the wrong place. This could have gone in a few different places, so if it's in the wrong place, I apologize.
Okay, so...my two dogs have recently started going and eating dirt and rocks. Or at least attempting to. I don't know if they've swallowed anything(probably some dirt), because I'm not always the one who takes them out, but if you let them out they go and eat the loose dirt and rocks under the deck in my backyard. We're planning to fence that in soon anyway, but it kind of has me worried. They're acting fine otherwise, maybe a bit weirded out by all the weather changes(it's been all over the place, today's 90, but a few weeks ago it was 30?!). The thing that worries me is the fact that they never even were grass eaters. My one dog, Bailey, is way more interested that Bella. He doesn't eat sticks, or chew up my brothers legos and nerf darts, even if they're left on the floor in easy reach, and if he goes to pick something like that up and I tell him "no" or "leave it" he walks away. This though, sometimes he refuses to listen even if he hasn't quite gotten to the dirt yet. They just started doing this about a week or two ago.
Since it might be asked, they're on Eagle Pack Holistics(I forget what ones, but it's a mix of two) and have been for the past 3 years without issues. They get adequate exercise and training time each day. We don't necessarily go on walks every day as it's no good to walk in hot weather or freezing weather, but I play fetch with them inside all the time.
Any ideas?
~IJMB
Okay, so...my two dogs have recently started going and eating dirt and rocks. Or at least attempting to. I don't know if they've swallowed anything(probably some dirt), because I'm not always the one who takes them out, but if you let them out they go and eat the loose dirt and rocks under the deck in my backyard. We're planning to fence that in soon anyway, but it kind of has me worried. They're acting fine otherwise, maybe a bit weirded out by all the weather changes(it's been all over the place, today's 90, but a few weeks ago it was 30?!). The thing that worries me is the fact that they never even were grass eaters. My one dog, Bailey, is way more interested that Bella. He doesn't eat sticks, or chew up my brothers legos and nerf darts, even if they're left on the floor in easy reach, and if he goes to pick something like that up and I tell him "no" or "leave it" he walks away. This though, sometimes he refuses to listen even if he hasn't quite gotten to the dirt yet. They just started doing this about a week or two ago.
Since it might be asked, they're on Eagle Pack Holistics(I forget what ones, but it's a mix of two) and have been for the past 3 years without issues. They get adequate exercise and training time each day. We don't necessarily go on walks every day as it's no good to walk in hot weather or freezing weather, but I play fetch with them inside all the time.
Any ideas?
~IJMB