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Dogs eating their own shit is not an evolved nutritional instinct, they aren't rabbits. Dogs will eat some quite nasty things because they think they taste good- used menstrual products, rotting meat, creepy crawlies, etc- but not poop. Poop eating is actually a den-cleaning behavior which can usually be prevented by providing a clean environment.
As I said, I personally never witnessed any dogs eating their own shit, so I can only go by literature, not empirical data. Your reason is mentioned among others, but I can not also exclude others. In any case, it's not an evidence of some kind of depravity of the dogkind (even if in the case of your explanation, it is an evidence for depravity of the owner).
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