Signed,
Hurly Girl
Dear Hurly Girl,This is a favorite topic of mine—and so important! Domestic cats are not the only ones who purposefully “lose their lunch” – big cats do it, too (your person would love cleaning up that mess!).
Humans may wonder why we eat the grass just to turn around and throw it back up. Call it a sixth sense or just intuition, but we cats know that a little bit of grass goes a long way toward making us feel better.
We eat grass for a number of reasons: 1) our human hasn’t been brushing us routinely which requires extra grooming on our part—the end result being too much fur in our stomach; 2) a mouse or bird had the misfortune of crossing our path—they are tasty but the fur, bones and feathers tend to bog down our system; and 3) I’ve heard reports from the feline community that eating grass may help relieve a sore throat!
So, yes, we do eat the grass knowing it will come back up. My resources say it comes back up is because cats lack the necessary enzymes to break down grass. Bottom line—eating grass helps to clean out our system and make us feel better; however, when and where it comes back up is beyond our control.
Heave Ho!
Humans may wonder why we eat the grass just to turn around and throw it back up. Call it a sixth sense or just intuition, but we cats know that a little bit of grass goes a long way toward making us feel better.
We eat grass for a number of reasons: 1) our human hasn’t been brushing us routinely which requires extra grooming on our part—the end result being too much fur in our stomach; 2) a mouse or bird had the misfortune of crossing our path—they are tasty but the fur, bones and feathers tend to bog down our system; and 3) I’ve heard reports from the feline community that eating grass may help relieve a sore throat!
So, yes, we do eat the grass knowing it will come back up. My resources say it comes back up is because cats lack the necessary enzymes to break down grass. Bottom line—eating grass helps to clean out our system and make us feel better; however, when and where it comes back up is beyond our control.
Heave Ho!
Savannah
"People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet."
- Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M
