When choosing the best muzzle for your dog, you’ll want to first consider the main reason they will be wearing it. Is it to keep your dog from ingesting items off the ground, like rocks or feces? Or is it to prevent bites?

Muzzles for Dogs with Pica or Obsessive Scavenging

In the case of preventing scavenging, you’ll need to find a muzzle designed for blocking your dog’s access through the front of the muzzle cage. Wire-cage muzzles and many silicone or biothane muzzles may still allow your dog to snag smaller objects and swallow them (or, heaven forbid, squish their muzzle into a pile of poo and lick it clean).