Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 23, 2012

Phoebe must be one of those kids who dislike eating vegetables.

I don’t quite get what they see differently, but my horse will pass up the best looking grass for this weedy stuff, and then go for dandelions, eucalyptus, even pickleweeds. Gotta be something wrong with that stuff. Bermuda grass on lawns, it seems is quite good, the stuff on the golf course, not so much

I just have to keep shooing everyone else’s horses out of my 60 acre’s of timothy hay…

Most people who see unicorns like grass, although they don’t usually eat it…

Can a horse eat eucalypts? I thought their leaves were toxic.

And when you eat grass, you eat bugs.

I must say, I am enjoying this strip so far. Nice job, Dana.

Not only that, she eats UNBORN birds! ( Muahahahahaaaaaaaa! )

Ha ha! My dog eats grass when her tummy is upset – don’t know why grass helps.

Hee hee hee!

I like my birds with seasoning, too.

Most importantly, grass is chiefly composed of cellulose, which vertebrates in general cannot digest at all. Such vertebrates as do eat grass despite that (including Unicorns, it would seem) can do it only because they have big ’ol bacteria farms in their guts where the resident microorganisms eat cellulose and poop carbs. (Of course, unicorns, being magical, may employ some other mechanism instead; the subject is shockingly under-researched.) Be that as it may, humans simply don’t have the required machinery to pull the trick off, and find grass to be no more nutritious than sawdust.

And she doesn’t eat them raw and off the lawn. Except maybe that one time around three years old…

I’m surprised Phoebe isn’t a vegetarian.

And no one ever said grass is ‘finger lickin’ good’. ;)

eating grass is even better than smoking it

There’s something about fresh-mown timothy, alfalfa or clover that smells so heavenly (pun intended). I remember stacking bales and bales of that and wishing it was more edible. ::grins:: Well, edible from my viewpoint, that is!

Touché

Wait Phoebe eat seson birds im just shock

If you try some KFC, I’ll try some KFG.