Customer Reviews

Solid Gold S.E.P. (Stop Eating Poop) 3.5oz

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I've put a lot of time and money into finding either a product or a homemade remedy for "the problem." This stuff has really cut down on the consumption of deposits. I do have to treat four dogs to discourage only one of them. This supplement has not yet broken her entirely, but the frequency has really decreased. I have much more to pick up from the yard. We are still in the two-week twice a day treatment (I also feed twice a day so it is easy) so I do not know what will happen if and when I switch to a once a day dose. It does have a strong, pungent odor but I do not find it offensive. Clearly better than poop-breath. Nothing else I have tried works to this degree - I'll buy it until the habit is broken or as long I as need it. May have to look into purchasing by the case.

We have only been through one container of SEP, but it seems to be working on my two dogs. If we come home late or leave them alone in their dog run for too long, we'll still see evidence that they have eaten a bit of their poop (guh, so gross!), but it seems that they only eat a little bit of it now -- which is way better than it was before when they only left little remnants. It just seems that something about the SEP turns them off the taste (what could possibly taste worse?!?), whereas previously they were really enthusiastic about the poop-eating. Anyway, this is a much better result than previous pills and products that we used to use (including feeding them spinach and pumpkin) -- none of which seemed to have an effect. At this point, short of quitting our jobs and staying home with the dogs all day, this is the best we can do to curtail this disgusting habit. We walk them in the morning and again when we get home from work, but during the work day they are pretty much all alone in the run and when they gotta go, they gotta go -- and I guess they get bored! :(

And yes -- similar to other folks -- we have doubled the amount recommended in the instructions.

Our otherwise very smart, very trainable shephard would do this one gross thing--recycle his waste which caused gastric distress. We started using S.E.P. and the behavior stopped. We find if we take him off S.E.P. the behavior returns, so we use it every meal. We are pleased.

We added a two-year old corgi to our family in August. She'd been living in multi-dog households (meaning four dogs or more) for her entire life. We just have one other dog, her brother. She immediately began ingesting feces from both her and her brother. I'm not sure if this is a habit from living with many other dogs or was brought on by the stress of being in a new home, but I was determined to stop it.

We tried a product from Drs. Foster and Smith called Distaste and it worked quite well, but my male dog wasn't terribly thrilled with it-- it came in chew form and he didn't seem to like them. So I found this SEP and was glad to see it's something mixed into their food. It does not work as well as the Distaste, but seems to discourage her. All winter I have noticed my female picking up frozen specimens and marching around the yard with them... but she doesn't seem to be eating them. I plan to double the dose, as some other reviewers have noted, and we'll see how things go through the spring. We are typically quick about cleaning up after them, particularly now that we can see the ground, but occasionally we miss a pile. I'm hoping that the problems we had this winter with the SEP not working well were maybe because the feces were frozen, and now that things are thawing, maybe the SEP will discourage her more strongly.

So bottom line, it seems to be working fairly well, but has not broken the habit completely. My only other comment is the smell of the product itself. It smells like Pixie Stick dust, or something similarly sweet/sour and I find the smell really awful. My husband and two sons don't seem to mind, but I hold my breath until I get it mixed into the dogs' food.

Our black lab eats all the poop she can get her mouth on! This product has helped tremendously. While no product will turn her into a non-poop eating saint, we definitely see less problems with it while she is on it. Also, we've researched all the options, and this is DEFINITELY the cheapest.

S.E.P. by Solid Gold. This worked for my little cockapoo. I kept Charlie on a leash for control of his poop eating but sometimes let him out without a leash. He would always eat his poop. After researching different products I decided to try S.E.P. (I also feed him Solid Gold brand dog food so this swayed me in trying this product.) I fed it to him twice a day and since I feed him dry food I used a teaspoon of yogurt to hold the powdered product. After using for a few weeks, I can now let him go outside--off leash--and he doesn't even bother to take a bite.

We have had no more problem with poop eating after using SEP. Some of the reviews that I read before I bought SEP did not correspond with our experience. For example, one person said that it smelled terrible. This was not true for us. To my nose and to my wife's nose it had a little smell, but not unpleasant, kindly spicy. One reviewer also said it was expensive. Not true. It lasts a long time if used as directed. My take on the SEP reviews is that the few people who found some fault wrote to complain, but satisfied users generally didn't bother. Probably, all reviews on products sold by Amazon tend to be biased negatively.

I bought this product to stop the problem we were having with our 6 month old puppy. We have 5 little dogs that are paper trained. The product smells horrible to me, enough to make my stomach turn. I mixed it with canned food and all but one dog really loved it. I forced myself to tolerate the smell and continued to feed it to them for a couple of weeks once a day. It has helped to stop the problem even though one dog wouldn't eat it. I have stopped it for about a week now and it still seems to be working. I have my fingers crossed because I really don't want to smell it as I feed it anymore.

my dog like his kibbles more than treats (he LOVES to eat!!), and with this sprinkled on top of his food,

he refuses to eat. the smell is super strong even I pull away my head when I open the jar.

And, even when i hand fed him the food, he still tried to play with his poop. (granted, he consumed smaller portion than the recommended by the direction)

Overall, it may keep dogs away from their poop because they can smell this in their poop, but that same smell is present on their food, which obviously repells them.

So, I do not recommend this product unless your dog eats EVERYTHING.

My chocolate lab has not stopped eating poop but I found out she actually likes the taste of the powder!! I put some on my finger and she licked it off eagerly!! I think I am doomed, there is NOTHING she won't eat