Any Recommendations For Grass For Cats?

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Any recommendations for grass brands for cats?

I thought it would be easy but as i searched and read reviews about grass that one's grows for indoor cats to eat,there were some negatives-

I have bought cat grass before, they loved it. no issues. cant recall brand.
 
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Cat grass is just wheatgrass(or ocasionally oatgrass or, I think either rye or barleygrass, but usually wheatgrass.) You can buy seed and grow it yourself. My brother grew some, and gave it to my cat for Christmas.
 
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ok thanks.

Just ordered one brand with "ORGANIC BLEND OF WHEAT, OATS, RYE, BARLEY AND FLAX"
See what happens.
 

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Haven't heard of flax, interesting. be careful and monitor it. Some cats will eat too much and throw up (my cat is such a cat, sadly.)
 
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So i grew cat grass made of "ORGANIC BLEND OF WHEAT, OATS, RYE, BARLEY AND FLAX"....this product:

My 17yo male cat with senior citizen cat health issues.
Gave him 5 minutes with it, then took it away. To be cautious.
he loved it...started chasing me around....started hunting where i hid it, he found it. demanded more time with it. Gave him another 5 minutes. took it away again. he cased the whole house looking for it for an hour.

That was yesterday, today i did the same thing. I believe he threw up once over night. I can tell, he is thinking about the grass 24 hours a day now.

Any comments? Advice? Experience? He loves eating the grass.
I thought a cat throwing up after eating grass was nature and helpful---maybe that is not true.
 
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I just bought Cat Grass seeds from Sprout People. The label says wheat, oats, rye, barley & flax. So easy to grow, you just soak the seeds for 12 hrs, rinse/drain, and then rinse/drain every 8 hrs until sprouts start showing.... which only took 2 rinses for me. Put them in a pot and covered with a little topsoil and they sprouted in a couple days - after 4 days they are really long! I used 1/4 cup of the seeds and that gives a lot of cat grass ... still have tons of seeds in the pkg left. Trouble is my cat has no interest in it eventho he has been "interested" in one of my plants (not eating it but putting his mouth on it), and licking plastic! I read that just cutting it up or letting them eat it whole may irritate their digestive system so I cut a bunch of it, put it in a nutrabullet, added some water and then put a tiny bit of the liquid in ice cube trays. The pieces are so small they melt really quick when taken out and can be mixed with food. I put it with a tsp of baby food, a drop of krill oil, pinch of physillium husk, and a tiny bit of Vit B12 before I feed the morning meal as he laps up the baby food so I know he got all I put in it. Only 3 days trying it but he seems like it is helping his IBD as he is running around more now. LoveBug is 15 1/2 yrs old and has IBD from the ultrasound.... but doesn't seem to have a lot of the symptoms - he doesn't vomit except maybe once a month a hairball, he doesn't have diarrhea, the only thing different is he doesn't seem to want to eat as much as he did and he gets constipated. Trying different foods was a disaster as he refuses to eat duck/rabbit/venison... only wants chicken. So feeding him wellness. My Peanut (female tortie) eats raw with bones. Never try an IBD cat on that! LoveBug never has liked raw so I always fed him Wellness, I kept reading that putting an IBD cat on raw helped IBD. So I made him eat the raw for a couple days. I felt so bad as the 2nd day there was vomit on the floor with a bunch of tiny bones in it!!!!!! I immediately stopped giving him the raw with bones. Although think I may try the raw w/o bones and the Alnutrin supplement with egg shells.
 

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You might want to try growing the grass inside a small decorative birdcage or similar wire enclosure. You can then leave the grass out where the cat can see it, but the cage will mean they can't get to it very well. They can eat some of it as it grows through the wire, but if needed you can trim it as needed to limit how much they can access to prevent scarf-and-barf.

Keep in mind that most cat grass is not very long lived, so you may, depending on your success and cat, wish to keep two grass patches growing at a time. Start one batch, wait until it is ready to present to the cat, then start a second batch. When the older grass starts to die off at the end of it's natural lifespan, you can replant it with fresh seed. Keep track of how long the grass takes to reach the feed-to-cat stage, and how long it takes to reach the end of it's lifespan, and you can probably adjust the timing to get them to overlap nicely so your cat always has grass available.
 
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