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Photo: Brian Clayton/Flickr A: No. I see a loss of appetite as a red flag. If your dog is a picky eater and skips one meal, I wouldn't worry about it. But if it's more than one meal, you should bring the dog to see a vet. Many factors can cause a dog to lose its appetite: metabolic disorders; infections; viruses; stress -- it can even be a sign of cancer. Like humans, dogs need to eat food to survive and it's important that they eat every day. I often see owners feed their pooch more food after it has finished a meal because it appears that the dog is still hungry. This is how so many dogs become overweight. Honestly, most dogs are always hungry. My dog would eat until her stomach ...

"Is it just me or has the grass has gone bad?" Photo: Kettukusu/Flickr A: In a recent question to Paw Nation, a user asked me if dogs eat grass to settle their stomachs or, since her dog often throws up after eating the green stuff, if it's the grass that actually upsets their stomachs. But first let's answer the question, why do dogs and cats eat grass? Some dogs and cats inherited their taste for grass from their ancestors, others chomp it just to have something to do, and some do indeed munch on grass to settle an upset stomach or another gastrointestinal-related problem. Eating grass will often cause vomiting, sometimes because the grass itself upsets your dog's or cat's ...