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.”