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No one knows why dogs like grass – but fresh, clean grass can’t hurt them.

A reader asks, “Why does my dog eat grass? It makes him throw up. I’d like to train him not to do this, but I’m not sure how.”

Dogs have been eating grass for so long that one species is called dog grass in their honor. Dog grass or couch grass (Agropyron repens), which is also called quackweed, grows in all but our southernmost states, and it is most commonly found in the upper Midwest.

Most dogs will eat a few blades when they have the chance. Others are veritable lawn- mowers, eating (and often vomiting) whole clumps of grass, to their owners’ dismay.

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