Why Does My Dog Eat Grass??
Warm weather and rain has produced lush lawns in many Twin Cities’ neighborhoods. This may prompt your dog to act like a four-legged lawn mower, mowing down and eating grass. Common ideas about grass eating behavior in dogs are either that it is due to a dietary deficiency or that dogs eat grass to make themselves vomit when they are feeling sick. A survey study conducted by UC-Davis found no link between being fed an unbalanced diet and grass eating behavior and that “grass eating is a common behavior in normal dogs unrelated to illness and that dogs do not regularly vomit afterward.”
John Bradley Seals
3:23 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Just as long as they don't start smoking it.
Erin H
9:03 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
So why do they eat grass?
Westgate Pet Clinic Doctors
10:43 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
There are all sorts of theories about why dogs eat grass. My favorite is that there is an evolutionary basis for it. Wild dogs would kill and eat primarily herbivores like rabbits and deer. They would eat the entire animal, including their digestive tract which contains vegetation, like grass, in it. Thus, grass has always been part of their diet. The bottom line though, is that we don't really know why they do it, but we do know that it is a normal behavior. So the answer to the question "Why do dogs eat grass?" is "Because they do".... :) Dr. Teresa Hershey Westgate Pet Clinic Minneapolis, MN
Erin H
5:29 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Thanks! Sometimes I wonder if I adopted cows rather than dogs with the amount of grass they eat!