If your dog is eating rocks, soil, fabric, sticks, paper or other non-food material, you are not alone in wondering what is going on. Many guardians are told to redirect it, interrupt it, manage it, or train it away. But before we ask how to stop the behaviour, we should ask why it started. That question changes everything. What Is Pica? Pica is the repeated ingestion of non-food, non-nutritive material. It is not the same as a puppy mouthing everything in sight, or a dog occ