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is it normal for a border collie mix to eat grass? Just wondering.... Please write back ↓
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| Name: lindalu | Date: Sep 3rd, 2006 11:38 PM |
| Sure is!!! most dogs will eat grass if given the chance. ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Sep 5th, 2006 3:05 PM |
| bladerunner i to have a border collie mix that loves to eat grass!! i wondered the same thing !! ↑ |
| Name: DaniN | Date: Sep 13th, 2006 8:02 AM |
| eating grass helps dogs with some kind of health issue i dont rember it but its true my moms a vet. ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Sep 16th, 2006 1:09 AM |
| wow nice to know it's normal! The funny thing is he will only eat certain grass and he picks over every blade looking for just the right one it really is quite funny to watch!! ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Sep 16th, 2006 2:12 AM |
| bladrunner what mix is your border? do you know? ↑ |
| Name: cierra | Date: Sep 17th, 2006 2:03 AM |
| no, at least i dont think it is . i heard that it means your dog wants to puke . but i dont know if thats true.but i guess if your dog is eating grass and not barfing then its ok. ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Sep 17th, 2006 11:57 PM |
CHARLA-
She's a shelter dog so I really have no idea but at times she looks like a lab. ??? ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Sep 18th, 2006 12:01 AM |
cierra- no she dosent barf after she eats it she just acts like it's part of her food.
weird. ↑ |
| Name: redbcol | Date: Sep 18th, 2006 7:45 AM |
| All dogs eat grass. After a few minutes, they barf after their stomach acid removes nutriants from greens and the ruffage is eliminated. Remember that ferral dogs will eat entrails first after a fresh kill because of partially digested veggie matter. ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Sep 18th, 2006 6:29 PM |
| BLADERUNNER- do you find that your dog is very protective of you? mine is obbsessive w/ my 3 boys which is good to a point it can get on there nerves!!! she also jumps on anyone that visits and i ahve tried very hard to get her to stop but she just doesnt get it i know she is very smart and knows i dont want her doing this i think she just ignores me and does what she wants!!! ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Sep 18th, 2006 7:23 PM |
| BLADERUNNER- the raeson i asked is becouse my brothers border collie is my pups mom and she is very over protective of my brother she will lay on his dirty clothes while he is gone it is like she is obbsessed with him!! i was wondering if that was a border collie thing??? ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Sep 26th, 2006 11:25 PM |
charla
I don't know if it is a border collie thing but she does tend to carry objects that belong to the people who arent home. There are too many people around the house for her to be protective, she's just used to them. I understand your frustration with them sometimes they can be stubborn things... ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Sep 26th, 2006 11:25 PM |
| sorry for not writing for so long. ↑ |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Sep 27th, 2006 12:51 AM |
| Border collies are in the top 3 for intelligance. I know a quad who self trained his dog to retrieve almost any thing he asks for. I have asked him to go get his bones, he will go to the closett open the door bring them to me. After I give him one, I will then hand him the bag and tell him to put them back. He will go back to the closett place the bag back inside the closett and shut the door. This dog is so incretable! the only thing with a Border colli is thier high instinct to hurd. All you have to do is look them in the eye and their instinct will kick in. There for if there are young children in the house they will try to hurd them! and possibly end up hurting them. The Border collies I have worked with all have the instinct to hurd and will hurd any thing that moves including adults. They are great dogs! and unbelievably lovable! ↑ |
| Name: Brenda | Date: Sep 27th, 2006 4:21 AM |
Bladerunner,
My border collie has a high need for grass -- never throws it up, but rather it seems essential to her health to eat/digest it. She will sniff the clumps, being very picky until she finds what she wants. Seems to prefer young, small clumps to older ones. We went on a 2-week trip recently and she was confined to the back yard (grassless). She didn't do well -- her coat was dull and she had gotten worms. She was desperate to get out to the front yard to eat the grass again and perked up within a day. ↑ |
| Name: charla | Date: Sep 29th, 2006 3:26 PM |
| Lindalu i agree they are very smart it didnt take long for me to teach sophia to potty train u think 1 week and for her to bring a stick and play fetch , sometimes she is to smart for her own good!!! bladerunner thank you for responding .. ↑ |
| Name: lindalu | Date: Sep 29th, 2006 7:18 PM |
| Collie hater, it appears you are not mature enough to conversate like the rest of us. So I will forgive your imature dorkey ways and forgive you! I wonder...... why parents let little dorks like you on the net un supervised! ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Oct 5th, 2006 12:09 AM |
Brenda-
Actually when she eats the grass she dosen't throw up either, but she WILL NOT eat any grass that is not growing. If it has been cut she will look for uncut edge clumps, pulling at her collar to get to them. It is actually amusing............. lol ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Oct 5th, 2006 12:10 AM |
| your welcome for me responding lol....... it's ahrd for me to get on here everyday and sometimes I don't get a chance to get on for over week. ↑ |
| Name: bladerunnerx16 | Date: Oct 5th, 2006 12:13 AM |
THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY'S EVERYBODY----
KEEP THEM COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ↑ |
| Name: amise | Date: Oct 19th, 2006 3:15 AM |
| yes my dog eats grass when his tummy is upset ↑ |
| Name: Petmaster | Date: Oct 19th, 2006 5:09 PM |
Grass eating can also be a stress behavior due to boredom or overstimulation.
The dogs that eat it and vomit didn't eat it TO vomit, they simply didn't choose a species of grass that agreed with their stomach.
They don't know there are different types of grass. That's why we have lists of plants that are toxic to dogs, they'll attempt to eat any kind of vegetation that smells good to them at the time.
There are types of grass that grow that they can digest fine and may give them some extra nutrients and fiber, although not mandatory to their health.
Has anyone seen the potted "'Pet Grass' for All Pets" that they sell in most major pet stores? ↑ |
| Name: Hiddy | Date: Oct 19th, 2006 11:42 PM |
Dogs eat grass for numerous reasons.
One is because dogs are not strictly carnivores, and with the heavily processed foods on offer in supermarkets today that contain plant matter, the dog basically needs added nutritents, and vitamins from another source.
Another is because when a dog is sick, various types of grass, maily cooch varieties, serve as a natural laxative and antinausea aid
Another is because dogs soil provides many minerals that a dog needs in its diet. Vitamin K is a requirement of dogs and is found in soil. Soil is a natural food source for dogs and has been for thousands of years. Ever seen a dog that will eat mouthfuls of dirt? I have. They eat grass sometimes, to get the underlying soil from the plant. ↑ |
| Name: Hiddy | Date: Oct 19th, 2006 11:42 PM |
Typo.....
I meant to say "DO NOT CONTAIN PLANT MATTER" ↑ |
| Name: Hiddy | Date: Oct 19th, 2006 11:53 PM |
But basically, dogs are not carnivores, they are omnivores.
Which means they eat both meat and plant matter.
When a dog kills its prey in the wild, the first thing that dog will do is eat the stomach out of the animal and this is because, in most cases the animals stomach will contain plant matter.
Thats what is lacking in today modern pet diets, it doesnt have enough vegetable matter and when it does contain veg matter its chopped up too big. The dogs stomach is not designed to injest huge lumps of peas and carrot. The food should be mimicked to simulate the dogs diet in the wild, which consists of mainly half digested food, chewed up by herbivores, many of which have cuds.
To benifit your dog, vege matter should be STEAMED, until 1/2 cooked, then put in a food processor or blender, made into a pulp, then mixed with the meat. And dont forget the carbohydrates. Pasta and rice are a good source, and raw chicken bones will give them everything else they need. ↑ |
| Name: Hiddy | Date: Oct 20th, 2006 12:11 AM |
...and herbivores that have cuds and 4 stomachs, are called ruminants. This means that they ruminate on their food.
(They chew it, regurgitate it, then chew it again until it is very fine) Then it travels down into the stomachs and get digested in 4 stages. Ruminents are a favorite prey of wild dogs because of this.
Any more questions? Or was that too much for you to take in for one day? ↑ |
| Name: Petmaster | Date: Oct 20th, 2006 12:29 AM |
I wouldn't recommend ever giving your dog ANY animal bones.
Meat, yes.. bones, no.
Most dogs will attempt to swallow small chicken bones whole and even if they go down without choking or without rupturing their esophagus from the bone splintering it blocks or ruptures their intestine on the way out. And our domestic dogs don't have the jaw capacity for beef bones, they just end up breaking their teeth on them.
Bones just aren't worth the risk. ↑ |
| Name: Hiddy | Date: Oct 20th, 2006 12:37 AM |
| uncooked bones dont splinter ↑ |
| Name: Petmaster | Date: Oct 20th, 2006 12:49 AM |
But am I wrong in saying dogs can choke to death and/or still get organs ruptured from eating chicken bones? Is it worth the risk?
Then again, you can tell me... go look it up on the web for me, would ya? ↑ |
| Name: Hiddy | Date: Oct 20th, 2006 12:59 AM |
I have not looked anything up on the web.
No need to.
RAW Chicken wings are fine for dogs of ANY size.
The bones are so small they cannot get caught in the airway.
and RAW chicken wing bones will crush without splintering.
I only recommend raw chicken wings. Would not recommend any other type of bone. Cooked or uncooked. ↑ |
| Name: Petmaster | Date: Oct 20th, 2006 1:15 AM |
I'm talking about the esophagus not the trachea.
So, in conclusion, you are saying it is IMPOSSIBLE for a chicken wing bone to get CAUGHT in a dogs esophagus or other internal organ where internal bleeding or a blockage COULD occur and surgery MAY be nessesary? ↑ |
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