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My dog eats grass

What’s up with my dog eating grass? And I’m not just talking about a couple tastes, like she really goes to town on a patch of grass. She’ll spend over five minutes grubbin on grass if I don’t pull her away. It’s very adorable, but I’m kinda wondering if it’s even healthy? Like maybe she’s just stupid, but I don’t want her to get sick from it either. And it’s not like I don’t feed her, she eats really well at home. And it’s recent, she’s just started chowing down on grass in the last couple of weeks. So any idea what’s up with my dog’s weird appetite?

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Answer #1

Dogs use grass to settle an upset stomach…get veggies into their diet…and some dogs just like the taste. Here’s what a vet says about the “why” they eat it…

“It’s a normal part of their diet,” says Holly Frisby, DVM, of Doctors Foster & Smith, Inc. in Wisconsin. Wild canine relatives of dogs–wolves and foxes–eat all of an animal when they catch it. They end up, therefore, eating grasses and plants in the intestines of these animals. Domestic dogs, eating prepared dog food, lack this part of their diet and so they eat grass.

There are products sold at Petco and on line that you can sprinkle on their food, so they can get the greens they need or want without the chance of throwing up…one of them is Nu-Pet Granular Greens…but there are others, too…Barley Grass is one, also.

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Answer #2

wow, my dog eats frogs, grass, flys, bees, bunnies… And Jello-kun.. lol joke the Jello-kun part.. And really you can’t stop them. Just tell them ‘no’ and maybe they’ll catch on. And muzzles aren’t bad, the’re good. But a muzzle on your dog for a while. It’s not hurting them, it’s heling then and making sure they don’t get sick.. Peace.

Answer #3

my dog eats grass to.

Answer #4

when a dog eats grass it means his or her belly hurts get it to a vet or something if it dosent stop

Answer #5

yes…sometimes dogs stomachs get a little upset and they start to eat grass! My dog does it sometimes too!

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