Why do dog eat GRASS And why dog eat grass and vomit.



Hi everybody.

We’re going to talk about something in this Blog, this is going to be part of a series of strange things that German Shepherd dogs or dogs in general eat.

This Blog is going to be about why do German Shepherd dogs or any dog keeps eating grass frantically And why dog eat grass and vomit.



We’re gonna talk about that right here in this Blog welfareofdogs.com Why do dogs eat grass?

And why do they sometimes after they eat grass they throw it up? dog eating grass sprayed with roundup herbicide.

I mean let me tell you about my very first dog, first dog I ever had in my life my mother was allergic to dogs.

So, I couldn’t have a dog til I left home.

So, when I was finally in my last month of college I bought a German Shepherd dog.

And he was amazing he was just fantastic, his mother was a show line dog with German heritage.

His daddy was solid black and that’s why when I kind of fell into and into love with solid black German shepherds.

So, it just you know we lived together all day for all those months and that’s when I started learning how to train a German Shepherd dog…

My uncle was in the military and he taught me some of the things that the military handlers would do with their German Shepherds.

Back then and I’m like : I can do that I can learn how to do that.



So, that’s how I started off but this is an interesting thing in that job every day we had a big roll up front doors it was at the farmers market roll up front doors.

Where I left them open all day long and there was a back door and every day my dog wanted to go out the back door.

If he wanted to do his business he’d go to the back door and I’d open the door and he’d go out.

But every morning 10:00 o’clock I mean you could almost set your your watch on it at 10:00 o’clock in the morning he wanted to go out the back door and he’d go out and he’d eat grass… I just watch him.

He’d eat grass and then you know he’d walk around walk around two three four minutes maybe and then he’d start throw up.

The first time it happened I was like.

Oh, What’s wrong with my dog and I talked to the vet about it.

He said it’s a lot of dogs eat grass not a big problem.



So…

Every morning I’m working seven days a week so every morning you know 10 o’clock he’s going to the door and I’m letting him out and he’s eating grass, and I’m watching him he’s throwing it up.

Now another story about a dog I had just a couple of years ago we have Bermuda grass around our house.

It’s a golf course type grass and it’s made for on a golfcourse you know a lot of times, they’ll take these big divots or chunks out of the grass,.

And you’re supposed to go get the chunk and put it back and kind of replant it a lot of people don’t.

So, these golf course grasses are designed to when there’s a big chunk taken out of the fairway that they’re quickly would grow in with these runners and cover up that chunked out divoted area.

So, that’s the kind of grass I have around my house and I noticed that I had a puppy and she was eating a lot of grass cos about 50% of my dogs eat grass.

Not so much like my first dog ten o’clock in the morning every day, but I did have this puppy now I was raising her up a couple of years ago and she ate grass.

Well I let her out and we were walking around and she was hungry that day and she watched her she ate a lot of grass and I didn’t think about it I mean dogs eat grass.

So, she ate a lot of grass that day and it was this Bermuda real wiry runners and I was amazed at how much she ate, down the road I realized hey she was hungry it was time for her evening feeding.

But anyway she ate this grass and then a day or two later she didn’t want to eat and she was getting lethargic gonna take her to the vet.

And I didn’t put two and two together we did an x-ray of her and sure enough there was something in her stomach that just didn’t look right and it hit me.

Wow, she ate that grass that wiry Bermuda grass and it went in there she was hungry, ate more than she normally did it’s in there like wires and she’s little or younger she was maybe five six months old.

And it couldn’t pass and I told the doc I said : wow this may be what it is he said I bet it is.

So, we left her up there for a day or two and did what they do they flushed her with fluids and IVs and stuff anyway she didn’t have to have any surgery or anything she passed it find and I learned a huge lesson.

Don’t let your dogs feast on wiry Bermuda grass, so I learned that but why do dogs eat grass and then some of them walk around for a few minutes and then throw it up?



My first dog, back to the first dog what I learned in recent 15 years is that, number one there are a lot of reasons dogs could eat grass, a lot of reasons :

Dogs eat grass because, One is they’re looking for fiber because it’s not in their diet, back then I was just feeding cheap dog food.

I would buy eggs and put eggs in his food, I would occasionally get a cheap can of food mix some canned dog food in there you know just to kind i was a young guy, I mean I didn’t know and he ate and he did okay.

But it was cheap not good quality food but I didn’t know.

So, now since we feed a very good quality food, we feed victor hero canine, it’s 5 out of 5 stars on dog food advisor and it is great, it does a lot of good things, it has good fiber and so forth.

One thing they might be looking for when they eat grass is a good quality fiber, or a better quality food, they might be needing something like probiotics.

They might be needing minerals, that they’re not getting if they’re on a not so good food or just a terrible food like I was feeding my first dog.

So, one thing it’s really important to feed a really good quality food, it’s so important I can’t tell you how important it is, and the second thing is minerals.

You guys know, that I feed vitamins and I also feed minerals the vitamins that we use they’re very important, that I learned in the past few years about minerals and seek help.

Great food great vitamins that many of you know that I feed and these minerals Wow unbelievable.

And because we feed great food, great vitamins, great sea kelp minerals my dogs do not have the eating grass like the used too years ago lela the lovely she is a dog that eats grass and throws it up she’s like my very first dog.

She gets great food, she gets great probiotics, she gets great vitamins, she gets great minerals, but she’s just a dog that wants to eat grass and a few minutes later throw it up.



Now there are a lot of reasons for this veterinarians I mean there were a lot of articles published, there there are a lot of different reasons, but it appears that 25 percentage of German Shepherds or dogs in general, are just gonna eat grass for unknown reasons.

We’re not really sure why, but I just wanted you to know so that you won’t make some of them mistakes I’ve made like the Bermuda wiry grass don’t let them eat too much and feed of good food, good vitamins, good minerals.

And one more thing do not use heavy herbicides, pesticides, synthetic fertilizer.

And so forth on your lawn if you have a lawn and if your dog is eating grass out on your lawn very important.

One of the things that I have learned about that particular thing is my dogs go out and eat grass I used to plant this rye grass in a certain part.

And they really like the rye grass and that rye grass it would grow during the winter when the other grass was dormant, and they’d like to eat it, they liked the taste of it.

But at the end of its season in the early spring, it actually would have some little rye kernels on the end, and they like to eat that, they like to eat the seeds off the top because it’s good fiber, and it’s good nutrition, and they just like that.



So make sure if you have a lawn and a dog that does eat grass for whatever reason don’t use any bad things on your lawn, okay synthetic chemicals.

The fertilizer that we use is our free-range chickens our chickens are out and they’re walking all around and you know they do they they eat bugs and they do their poopies.

And we’ll have a little chicken poopies all over the lawn, and when it comes to rain or if I have to water the lawn or whatever, that’s my fertilizer.

So, we have a really good system here, make sure you have great food, great vitamins, great minerals, and probiotics put those probiotics into into their food every once in a while.

I’ll put probiotics in their food two or three times a week, just to make sure I take probiotics I eat yoghurt with active cultures in there.

Those are probiotics you have good bacteria in your system, dog stew too and that good bacteria needs to be fed, it needs to have a little punch.

So, It’s all those things why do dogs eat grass…. Nobody knows exactly.

But, if you follow these rules I’m telling you it’ll be a good thing,,, Okay.



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