eating poo

harrigran that reminds me of the time I was accompanying a child in my class at a school medical (those were the days). The doctor asked the 4yr old if he had 'passed water' that morning!!

Why not call a spade a shovel ? so much better than skirting round the subject, have you been ? and motions sounds so Victorian. We use poop or poopy to GC and when I was nursing young children, no point asking if they had opened their bowels {smile]

Keep it up, absent. I like it . Better than euphemistic skirting around of ordinary everyday shit.

Or, to put it another way: "Be yourself. The people who mind don't matter and the people who matter won't mind."

Yo, jings! You too

Why? Nothing wrong with a dose of pomposity now and again.

There is nothing disturbing about "grown women" using the word poo.

Stop sounding so pompous Absent.

BTW, rabbits eat their own shit. They get a second helping of nourishment the second time it goes through their guts. Grass is difficult to digest and they don't have four stomachs to do it with like bovines so they use the twice through the alimentary canal system.

You can tell rabbit shit that has been through twice from that which has only been through once by the colour. #howmanyofyouknewthat?

I don't consider the word shit to be rude, not the word itself. It can be used rudely, but so can faeces or crap or, even, poo. The how used counts. Just saying

I just googled the question and there are many accounts of small children, about two, playing with and eating their own poop.

Faeces is harder to spell. S**t is considered rude. What else do we use. In Leicestershire it was bob bobs,

There is something slightly disturbing about grown-up women using the word poo or pooh.

I'd actually never seen it spelled 'poo' before I joined this site. Always 'pooh' - never to be confused with the Bear of Very Little Brain, of course...

Poor old Pooh, his head bumped all the way down the stairs and then some dreadful child could be going to eat him. No, it isn't ok for children to eat Pooh.

No, it isn't ok for children to eat pooh. I find it hard to understand what the OP was about.

Dogs who eat their own pooh should be helped to stop the habit. I've had a few rescue/foster dogs who had the habit on arrival. Ensuring they never have the opportunity to practice the habit, feeding a decent diet, enough exercise and providing a calm, consistent environment sorted the dogs very quickly. Some people say put pineapple in their food, so they dog doesn't eat its pooh, others advise sprinkling chilli powder on a new pooh so the dog has a bad experience. I didn't do either of these things, hasten to add.

The answer to the OP is extremely simple - no, no and probably.

Nelliemoser I was assuming that the flavour was related to the smell. Things usually taste like they smell. eg I don't eat corn on the cob because I don't like the smell.

lacking in certain elements of their diet.

That's the only reason I could think of when I decided to ask the vet - fat lot of good that did me!

Never mind chocolate cake, I don't think I'll ever be able to eat another Malteser after reading an earlier post

Utterly revolting I never saw such behaviour when I worked with children nor did my DC or GC ever do it. I tend to think that people who ingest unusual substances do so because they are lacking in certain elements of their diet.

My DD pooed in the bath and ate some according to my 1973 journal,

She is 44 years old now and perfectly healthy.

I have worked with under 5s for years and have never come across a child (or a worried parent of one) who ate poo! I know of babies and v young toddlers who have removed poo from nappies and made a terrible mess but as far as i recall none consumed any! I would check with HV/GP/Practice nurse if it became habitual

and worse .....

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I haven't admitted this to anyone(except DH and my friend) but a few weeks ago I ate some chicken poo - by mistake.
I had scraped out some leftover rice for them with a fork, dropped the fork on the ground. The handle was sticky so I licked it, thinking it was from the rice, but NO! It was chicken poo
I rinsed out my mouth and scrubbed my tongue, but 3 days later had bad diarrhoea. Luckily not with fever, the Doctor said not to worry.

This is getting worse!

At least horse poo, sheep poo etc is only yesterday's grass

Is it chocolate cake, penguin?