I. Do dogs eat grass just to induce vomiting?

Normally, I believe we would have heard that dogs eat grass, so why would a dog eat grass? Is the dog eating grass just to induce vomiting? The fact is that there are several benefits of eating grass for dogs, and I don't know how much you know about it.

Why do dogs eat grass?
1銆乀ummy discomfort

When dogs feel particularly uncomfortable stomach, they will go to eat grass, although I do not know what the reason is, grass can help dogs to relieve stomach discomfort. Only, we do not give the dog too much grass, otherwise, its excretion will be affected.

2, have xenophagy

If the dog is deficient in some nutrients, it is likely to have the phenomenon of xenophagy. There are omnivorous dogs, many will have to eat grass this phenomenon, through eating grass to supplement their own needs of trace elements.

Usually, the owner remembers to ensure that the dog has a healthy, nutritionally balanced diet, and heterophobia can buy some trace elements tablets to feed, to alleviate the problem of dog heterophobia.

3, too bored

Dogs may choose to eat grass out of boredom. If your dog runs outside for a while, looks happy, and then slowly starts eating grass, they may just be bored. Try spending more time with them, giving them more exercise to exercise, or providing toys teething sticks, teething snacks, etc. to distract them instead of running out to eat grass every day.

4, emetic

We all know that grass has the effect of inducing vomiting. Sometimes the food in the dog's stomach can not be digested, the dogs are very smart, they will eat grass to induce vomiting, usually eat grass after vomiting naturally a lot more comfortable.

What are the benefits of eating grass for dogs?
1, relieve constipation

The high fiber content in plants helps stimulate intestinal transport. This means that grass can be eaten to combat and prevent constipation in dogs. If your dog often has difficulty defecating or wails during bowel movements, you can let your dog eat grass to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of constipation.

2銆丒ase stomach discomfort

When your dog eats too much or has an upset stomach after eating, it will choose to swallow some rough grass leaves and stems, which will cause the dog's throat to itch and stimulate the esophagus and stomach muscles to contract, which can easily achieve the effect of vomiting.

3銆丏ischarge foreign objects

Dogs outside to pick up things to eat, accidentally eat something indigestible, and these things will accumulate in the dog's digestive parts, they will eat grass by way of these indigestible things out of the body.

4銆丳revent omnivore

As mentioned above, if dogs suffer from xenophobia, they will relieve it by eating grass. Therefore, it can be seen that dog-eating grass can prevent heterophobia Oh.

Normally, when the owner chooses dog food, he can choose some natural food with high meat content and rich in vitamins, combining meat with fruits and vegetables, which is very nutritious, and he can occasionally match some supplementary food to ensure that the dog has sufficient nutrition, which can also prevent dog omnivory.

Note: Although dogs have so many benefits of eating grass, but must be careful not to feed a lot of Oh!

The first thing you need to do is to take your own baby out for a walk on a leash, and be sure to find out if the grass has been sprayed with pesticides and the possibility of poisoning, so pay attention to safety.

II. Why do dogs eat grass?

When you go out to walk your dog, you will sometimes find that your dog will eat grass on the grass or on the side of the road.

Do dogs eat grass too? Is he sick? Is it an omnivore? Cats eat grass to spit out hairballs, dogs do not need to spit out hairballs, how it also want to eat grass?

In fact, dogs eat grass is a normal behavior, do not be too alarmed.

Eating grass can help dogs regulate the function of the stomach and intestines, grass is rich in fiber, there are some minerals, digestive enzymes, can help the dog in the stomach and intestines of some hair foreign body to vomit out, just like the cat vomit out the hair ball is a reason.


Dogs with bloated stomachs and stomach pains will gobble up the grass, the rough leaves and stems of the grass will rub the throat and stomach to make them itchy, and this itchy feeling in turn will cause the dog to vomit.

This itchy feeling will in turn cause the dog to vomit. This feeling is especially strong when the dog eats the grass without chewing.

For dogs with a single diet, grass contains a lot of essential nutrients for dogs. If you see your dog chewing on grass or houseplants, then you should add some herbs and vegetables to his food.

Of course, some dogs eat grass because they are greedy, as long as they can get into the mouth, they want to try everything.

Usually do not eat enough, or simply like grass that with the fragrance of the earth, life is boring, why not chew a few grass to play.

But be aware that your dog's sudden consumption of large amounts of grass may be a potential sign that your dog may have some disease that he is trying to treat for himself, and then you need to take him to the doctor.

Even though your dog eating grass doesn't have any effect on his health, pet owners should be careful not to let their dogs eat grass outside at will.

After all, you don't know if the grass outside is sprayed with pesticides, insect repellents and the like, and the dust, parasites and bacteria in the grass may also be diseased from the mouth.

If your dog has a tendency to eat grass, you may want to plant a pot of cat grass for it.

Three, why do dogs eat plants?

In fact, dogs are originally omnivores, they just prefer meat, which is determined by their intestinal tract.

As organisms evolve, their digestive systems will match their food habits. For example, herbivores have less acidic stomachs so that microbes can live in herbivores, and the role of these microbes is to help their hosts break down indigestible plants; on the other hand, herbivores have longer intestines so that plants can stay in their bodies longer and herbivores can absorb more nutrients.

Carnivores, on the other hand, are the opposite. Meat foods tend to carry a lot of germs, and in order to destroy germs, the stomach acid of carnivores is more acidic.

On the other hand, meat is easily digested and the animal does not need a long intestine to absorb sufficient nutrients, so the intestine of carnivores is shorter than that of herbivores.

If an animal has the stomach of a carnivore, but feeds on plants, its survival will be seriously challenged. For example: giant pandas clearly have a carnivorous gut but feed on plants, which causes them to have to eat for long periods of time in order to get energy, and to conserve energy, they give up long migrations and the ability to run fast (occasionally they run fast for a bit, but most of the time they are slow).

To conserve energy, pandas also stay asleep for long periods of time, which means that the fundamental reason why we see pandas either eating or sleeping is that their intestines and food habits do not match.

There are also animals that are omnivores, as is the case with dogs. The stomach acid strength of omnivores is between that of herbivores and carnivores, and so is the length of their intestines, except that although they are omnivores, different omnivores have different preferences for plants or meat, for example: brown bears are omnivores, but they prefer plants, which take up more than 60% of their total food; wolves are also omnivores, but they prefer meat.

Dogs are domesticated from wolves, but in the process of getting along with humans, a larger part of dogs' recipes are composed of plants, which is not difficult to understand, after all, the ancients didn't have so much meat to feed dogs.


Compared with wolves, dogs have smaller stomachs and longer digestive tracts, with the most obvious increase in the length of the cecum and colon, and this means that the food dogs eat has a higher fiber content.

It's just that although dogs have an increased proportion of plant content in their food compared to wolves, they still prefer meat foods, so they rarely actively eat grass when they go out for a walk.

Why do dogs actively eat grass when they are sick?
There is a small percentage of dogs that eat grass just for fun, but most of the time when a dog eats grass, it means it is sick.

Dogs have more hair on their bodies, they usually grooming hair, it is possible to mistakenly eat hair into the stomach, hair is difficult to be absorbed, if not timely excretion appears, these hairs will accumulate more and more, resulting in indigestion, or anorexia, at this time they will eat a small amount of plants, plants are rich in fiber, very difficult to digest, but can promote gastrointestinal motility, to help dogs defecate.

There is also a possibility that the dog lacks nutrition. Although the dog food is nutritionally balanced, if it is not eaten properly or suffers from certain digestive diseases that make it difficult to absorb some of the nutrients, it will cause the dog to eat grass.

When the dog's intestines are not comfortable, but also by eating grass to induce vomiting, but if your own dog often eat grass vomiting, you need to go to the hospital.

As for why the dog will specialize in herbs to eat, in fact, it is not the dog knows medicine, but many plants can be found everywhere have drug functions, such as: plantain, Lala seedlings, etc., followed by these plants are easy to chew, after all, the dog's teeth are not good at chewing.

In fact, there is no need to worry too much about dogs eating grass, because there are some puppies will also eat grass because of curiosity, our family raised two puppies, one in particular like to go to the balcony to chew the weeds in the flower pots, but there is no abnormal behavior.

Another thing to note is that if the dog is sick eating grass, try to choose clean and unpolluted grass, especially to avoid places that have just been sprayed with pesticides, as well as green belts and other polluted places to eat plants.