Why do dogs like to eat human feces?

When I was a child, there was no toilet in the countryside, so I was pooping on the edge of a field. Then, after I pulled up my pants, a dog ran over to eat me at lightning speed. That scene will never be forgotten.

Because coprophagia is an extremely normal animal behavior. It would be better to say that animals like humans with strong resistance to coprophagy are alternative and heretical. In fact, it is quite common for humans to eat honeysuckle... Not to mention the special hobby and the use of feces as medicine, honey is often mixed with the honeydew (honeydew) of aphids and scale insects collected by bees. The honey in some production areas is even worse than honeydew. Known for its high content of honeydew, honeydew honey is generally darker in color than regular honey. Certain cheeses (like Milbenkäse) require the help of mites to make, and the finished cheese is filled with mites. Not to mention dark cheese like Casu marzu.

When it comes to eating shit, you always like to talk about excrement beetles, [cross out] Liang Feifan, [cross out], etc. In fact, animals pooping is extremely common. Except for dogs, all other canines also eat cockroaches. It is nonsense that wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat cockroaches. Who doesn’t like to eat cockroaches? Other primates besides humans also eat flies. Although he had digested it for one round, Xiangli still had some undigested food, nutrients that had not been fully absorbed, and mineral salts.

It is not easy for wild animals to find food, and having a hot mouth to fly is better than nothing.

Nowadays, most dog owners are naturally unwilling to let their dogs pick up feces everywhere. Fortunately, dog food is nutritionally balanced, and if the dogs are trained, they can still eat feces.

As for why human coprophagy is not common, it may be that with the development of human civilization, it has become easier and easier to obtain nutrients, and there is no need to risk ingesting parasites and bacteria by eating coprophagia. Bar. In extreme survival situations, the glorious tradition of shitting can still be picked up again; the British gourmet Pei Ye showed us survival skills such as eating deer shit and drinking shit juice.