A vet's take: Why your dog eats grass

Why do dogs eat grass? Dr. Gary Richter talks about why your pup might do this, and when it's a symptom of a bigger problem.

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[dar_jada]

My dog had gut issues for years. She often had diarrhea and sometimes would refuse her food so I knew her stomach was bothering her. She constantly sought out grass on our walks and would throw up afterward. Sometimes the vomitus would have blood in it. Lots of trips to vet and had to get up during the night often to let her out. This went on for years. Just started using your product Nutra Thrive two half months ago. Two days after starting her on it, she stopping having problems and she has not had any since. I’ll be interested to see if she still displays that desperate grass seeking behavior now that Spring is here. Such a relief to not watch her suffer.

[mommabear]

My dog doesn't vomit after eating grass but all year, when we cut the grass it as if we have made him a fresh salad and he eats it by the mouth full. He is 3 years old and is in good health otherwise

[franklong]

I once had a bengal cat, named Mario Lemieux, who, while I was at work, peed on my tax papers that I had laid out on the kitchen table. He had never used anything but his litter box in the past. It's like he knew! Probably an appropriate sentiment. I just wiped them off and took them to the accountant.

[danielmclin]

I hv a rescue pit bull who will eat grass right before she takes bowel movement. And has done so since she has been with me.

[rosamartinez]

By the way, I am fixing my chiguagua/corgi food: hamburger cooked, sometimes raw with brown rice. Chicken cooked. Fish, sometimes cooked sometimes raw depending on if she refuses it, I cook it. Quinoa in any of these dishes. Beef in different forms, it could be cheap steaks cooked or raw. Nutra Thrive in all the dishes. The vet wants to put her on insulin but I know there is a better way. She is so hungry all the time and she weighs 7 to 8 pounds but her original weight was 14 lbs. She looks like an abandoned dog with ribs and spine showing yet she eats like a horse. She used to eat from once to twice per day half bowl, now it seems I am cooking all day long huge full bowls and she isn't satisfied.
I have given her three insulin shots which gives her putrid gas constantly, it's so nasty!
Her blood glucose was 300 two weeks ago and 600 yesterday but she had just eaten. Please help me!

[Delbrag]

I have 2 dogs, a 12 year old Jack Russell terrier and a Poochon, and both of them eat grass all year long but they DON'T vomit after eating grass! When I go out to pick up the dog waste, they go out with me and they start to graze like goats, so what's happening? I feed them a good dry dog food that doesn't have any grains in it, and wet food at night that has either rice or quinoa. They not only eat the tender shoots of grass, but the crab grass that I have as well, any suggestions would be appreciated.

[janestake]

My dog! Greatest dog ever! He's itching so bad!!! He is chewing so much on his paws hes got lil spots!! Idk what to do! I've tried this n that and everything!! Nothing is working!

[NEALPUCCISWEDEN]

she walk out side 2 time she was eating the weeds out side I had to bring her in

[teriminter]

Hi Dr. Ritcher my daughter has a cat her name is Penelope and has a problem with throwing up almost as soon as she's done eating. Poor cat has been doing this most of her life and she's about 5 years old, any suggestions will help we've tried changing her food and that helps for a short period of time. Thanks 😊

[ajitatripura]

My dog ate grass and she vomit once she started avoiding food for 3, 4 days plz give Me some suggestion what can I give to my dog

[majesticwonFine]

My puppy just eats the clumps, no vomiting. He has been doing better since I changed him to cooked food.

Any advice on that?

[gracie]

Good thing I don’t have grass in my yard!

[waltrautdoehl]

What to do if cat does not eat any food that has your powder in it, he only like the cheap crappy canned foods I buy the best dry food I can, but would like him to eat that Powder of yours. Starving him is not the answer as he can out wait me, and lost a pound.