Reddit users:
Help others find this story. Push the up arrow! Thanks

Share and Enjoy:

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

add to favourites

email to friend

print this article

Dog addicted to eating grass

A dog needed life-saving surgery after he began gorging on grass when his owner put him on a diet.

Pie, a rottweiler-alsatian cross, tipped the scales at a massive 15 stones when he was found abandoned on a street last month, reports Metro.

However, when he stopped eating completely, his new owner Annabelle Pottle took him to the vets and discovered the real problem - he had half a kilo of grass in his stomach.

She said: "I was getting worried because he was not eating his special diet food. He usually loves his food and he was just turning his nose up at it.

"I could not believe it when the vet told me it was grass bunging him up. He must have thought he was a cow rather than a dog to eat so much of the stuff."

An £800 life-saving operation to remove the offending cuttings has now left him with a 25cm scar.

Ms Pottle, 40, who runs the Ardley Rescue Kennels in Bicester, Oxfordshire, took in Pie after he was found with his stomach dragging on the ground. He should weigh just five stone.

Vet Gemma Prophet said: "Most dogs eat grass, but when they eat so much it can expand in their stomach and they can't digest it. It must have been very painful for poor Pie but he is looking lot better now."

Usually pet dogs are more than happy to feast on bones and the occasional leftovers from their owners' dinners.

But one rottweiler-alsatian cross developed a craving for grass – and it almost killed him.

The canine, called Pie, was already on a diet because he tipped the scales at a massive 92kg (15st) when he was found abandoned on a street last month.

However, when he stopped eating completely, his new owner took him to the vets and discovered the real problem – he had half a kilo (1lb) of grass in his stomach.

Owner Annabelle Pottle said: 'I was getting worried because he was not eating his special diet food. He usually loves his food and he was just turning his nose up at it.

'I could not believe it when the vet told me it was grass bunging him up. He must have thought he was a cow rather than a dog to eat so much of the stuff.'

An £800 life-saving operation to remove the offending cuttings has now left him with a 25cm (10in) scar to remind him to stay off the green stuff.

Ms Pottle, 40, who runs the Ardley Rescue Kennels in Bicester, Oxfordshire, took in Pie after he was found with his stomach dragging on the ground. He should weigh just 31kg (5st).

Vet Gemma Prophet said: 'Most dogs eat grass, but when they eat so much it can expand in their stomach and they can't digest it. It must have been very painful for poor Pie but he is looking lot better now.'

Click an image to see a larger (less distored) version!