pets

[mournes]

why does my dog eat grass

[terambulan]

'cause they want to regurgitate (make themselves sick) something.

[jenniprice]

I think it's for moisture aswel, as my dog does it loads when out on walks, but hardly ever is sick-think she's been sick like once in her whole life!

[sir.knobby]

I have just came back from the park where my dog was really having a good go at the grass and I was just about to ask the same question myself.

He does it in the garden sometimes and I also thought it was to make themselves sick but he has never been sick afterwoods.

[mirela]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nat ure/Question616114.html

my dog does same too.

[sandmaster]

My dogs always started doing this about the time they were due for worming so I've always assumed it is a way they can purge themselves. The habit usually stopped after the worming tablets were administered.

[fredpuli47]

Often asked, but unless we can ask the dog there's no definitive answer.The most popular explanation is that the dog does it because of worms or indigestion (the two may be related; the worms may cause discomfort in the stomach ).Sometimes the dog vomits soon after eating the grass, which seems to be evidence for this theory.
Some dogs appear to be herbalists.One of mine is eating stinging nettles at present, not something she does all the time, just recently.She also, on occasion, takes to eating hogweed (ordinary, not the giant hogweed) and sometimes goldenrod..She is quite fussy, plainly hunting for just the right age and type of hogweed leaf.All of mine pick blackberries, neatly plucking the ripest and ignoring the rest.They must know something about plants that we don't! They are even fussy about the grass, not eating the stuff in the garden, preferring the longer grass in the horse paddock, especially when it's wet.