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Thanks for the info. We were "gifted" with a Russian blue hurricane evacuee. He hates our (and all) other cats so resides at the shop. We allow him to go out while we are there but mainly he stays inside. He loves oat grass and will graze it to a nubbin. Never has he vomited it. I also never find it passing thru in the litter box which makes me think it is totally digested. He seems to consider it a salad. If he grazes outside, he will upchuck that grass. So, I keep a pot of fresh (new growth is more tender) oat grass for him. Thanks for the info on the older grasses being dangerous. When I walk in with it, he all but takes me down.
Reminds me, I need to go start another pot. If anyone wants to know, you start the oats by moistening the soil. Sprinkling oat seed on the surface and covering it. Let it sit in the dark for three or four days to germinate. Expose it to light and it will grow and be ready for grazing in a few more days. A shallow cottage cheese or dip container with a lid works well for this.
I have noticed also, my resident dogs only graze a certain type of grass... fresh growth and only during a certain time in the spring. They manage to hold it down at that time.
My indoor cat would only sometimes throw up the indoor grown grass, I think depending on how big the pieces she ate were :)
She's actually terrible at eating the grass, so I've stopped giving it to her - she pulls up on them to break off a piece, but ends up pulling up the entire blade. It drops and she goes to the next one. A waste and a mess!
But it did keep her uninterested in the palms trees, which now I have to keep out of reach. Ah, the fun of having a cat :)
Like Podster, I grow small pots of grass (wheat grass for us) for
my indoor cat. He rarely actually swallows any but seems to
get great satisfaction from gnawing on it and enjoying the
juices, or just blissfully rubbing his face in it. He is now a very
healthy 15 years old. I trim off the dried ends that he has
chewed and keep a fresh pot germinating. A small price to
pay for the pleasure it seems to bring him.
Both our cats eat the lawn grass when they go out. One of them insists on coming back in the house to be rid of it! LOL They don't bother any other plant, inside or outside.
I grow grass for my cat. If I didn't she would eat my houseplants or try to escape to eat the lawn. I can't let her outside at all because in my neighborhood unattended animals are caught and then you get a warning or a fine. Plus the lawn care maintence people spray all kinds of weridness all over and I have heard of a small dog nearby getting badly poisoned due to this. She has never thrown up after eating any kind of grass. I keep a small pot of it and when it gets ratty looking I tear it up, remove about 1/2" of soil, put more seeds in, cover the seeds with new soil, and keep it out of her reach for 5 days or so, basicly until the blades start to open up. Then she can have it as long as it is looking healthy.
