My dog has turned into a cow

I think somebody may have posted something similar the other day so sorry to repeat an old topic but Rupert is gorging himself in grass every time we go out. There's a lot of it in his poop. I know this is not necessarily a bad sign but are your dogs doing the same?

Yep! Pulling it out there bum is fun Only this time of year as the grass is supposed to taste sweet! Strange little mites Xx

Same here! cant stop the little tyke

I though it was just Doug that had this strange habit!

Darcy's not too bad, but eeeewwwww janey pulling it out her bum.

Darcy-may wrote:Darcy's not too bad, but eeeewwwww janey pulling it out her bum.

Have you never had to do it

The grass has grown really quickly these last couple of weeks, and every dog I know including mine can't resist it! I do try to limit his intake because I, like Janey, have vivid memories of pulling it out of the bums of my previous dogs

Yep me too , but you must avoid big feasts as this can cause bloat

yeap sash has turned in to a cow too!

Grass seems to be Shéara's fave food at the moment. We cut the grass today and he went nuts with it, rolling around, picking chunks of the ground ans shaking it about and taking cheeky nibbles when he thought we wernt looking !

We're changing Rockys name to Daisy, yup he is at it too

Yep. Today Loki got bored waiting for my mum to come back from the cafe and decided to eat the grass it was rather funny.

janey wrote:

Darcy-may wrote:Darcy's not too bad, but eeeewwwww janey pulling it out her bum.

Have you never had to do it

But when you do aren't they ever so thankful Ledger loves grass and only the long really thick blades luckily we don't have 'issues' that often

Might want to phone a vet, pretty sure turning into a cow isn't normal!

yup both mine are at it to as is every other dog on the park walk lil bleaders. worst thing ever tugging a clag nut off thats swinging about on a strand of grass...

Ok - we've established that ALL dogs chomp at the lovely long grass that is springing up faster than we can blink right now.

So far - so normal, weird though it looks to see our doggies tearing into grass as though their lives depended upon it.

What I'd love to know is - WHY? Does anyone have any idea?

Apparently it tastes sweet this time of year, which makes sense to me Xx

I eat the grass at this time of year to see if there is sugar in it so i know when to get the horse off it.

Our dogs aren't total carnivores are they!

I remember (now you've reminded me Janey) that as a country child my friends and I used to pull at long grasses and eat the pale bit that pulled out - it was certainly tender and sweet.

Hayley wrote:I eat the grass at this time of year to see if there is sugar in it so i know when to get the horse off it.

Oh I can imagine

Does your horse get laminitis Hayley? Hopefully not, and you are just watching his waistline.

Lynda wrote:Our dogs aren't total carnivores are they!

I remember (now you've reminded me Janey) that as a country child my friends and I used to pull at long grasses and eat the pale bit that pulled out - it was certainly tender and sweet.

spot on mate, while i was researching both sides of my dogs parentage it seems they love seaweed and they also get a fair ammount of greens through eating raw fish and there stomach contents.its the reason i give zinc suppliments as they get bad skin without it, sod it buying a whole salmon for them...they can do with suppliments lol

Just watching his wasitline i don't like him when he is fat, for one his saddle rolls around and two i feel bad riding him cause im so heavy and two fatties shouln't ride together!

Glad he's not a laminitis sufferer Hayley, it's a horrible ailment.

And you're NOT a fattie!

yup Kodas the same... and its no fun trying to get her to stand (not sit she dont get that bit ) when your trying to free half a field from her

Even my cat is eating the grass by the way! lol

I can't relate to your time-zone and seasonality of sweet tasting grass but your post made me laugh We're heading into Winter here and we've had heaps of rain. We got instant grass in the backyard on the weekend Yeahy!!! SO long mud puddles (it's only taken a year) and our Bella was having a great old time straight into munching the grass - within 2 hours she's had her first grass spew and than proceeded to re-ingest the meal she lost on the grass

Our last Staffy x Beagle used to do this quite a lot - we never worried about it.

My two have a fav spot where we take them, they always go bombin round the corner an stand an munch this patch of long grass every time without fail! I kinda thought it was coz it tasted good