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I've been feeding my chi the raw diet for a few weeks now and he really likes it. He even eats his liver. But....he is always scavenging for food everywhere. When I first started the diet, I was giving him 3% but he started losing weight. I upped the amount and at 6oz per day, split into two meals his weight is back to normal. He's not a tiny chi, he's about 7-8 pounds. But he's scrounging everywhere. I mean he tries to get his tongue under the refrigerator to get whatever crud might be under there. He licks between the spaces in the rubber mat my husband has in front of the kitchen sink where the dirt, grease and fur collect. He eats the weeds in the yard (I don't spray anything). And...and this really pisses me off...he takes pieces of cat crap out of the litter box. I haven't yet seen him actually eat a piece, but he takes them out of the box and I find them in one of his beds, or on one of his blankets. They aren't fresh pieces (thank goodness) but pieces that have already dried a bit. Is there something lacking in his diet to cause this? Is there anything I can do (moving the litter boxes elsewhere isn't an option)? The word 'no' doesn't seem to mean anything to him for more than a couple of seconds. No matter how many times I try to correct bad behavior, he doesn't listen long term. He'll stop then and there, after I say no several times or clap my hands, or make some other sharp noise to scare him, but then 10 seconds later, he's doing the same thing again. I know he's not a stupid dog, but can chi's have ADD? He's very sweet and I love him, but the scrounging/litter box thing, and the not learning to stop things is very frustrating...which doesn't end up well for either of us.:foxes15: