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Apr 3 08 7:06 AM
It is often wrongly conveyed that your best friend is an omnivore. The main "myth" used to support this is "wolves eat the stomach contents of their pray" inferring that the stomach contents are usually vegetable/plant matter, so the wolf must be an omnivore.......
WRONG! Wolves DO NOT eat the stomach contents of their pray. This "myth" is repeated over and over as false evidence that wolves, and therefore dogs, are omnivores. It is not supported by the evidence available to us, and is therefore false!
Wolves eat the actual stomach, not the contents. The only times a wolf would eat stomach contents would be:
The wolf has survived by being an adaptable creature. He will survive by eating what can be found in times of shortage. This does not mean that he is an omnivore, it simply means that he is a survivor. Just like if you were hungry and the only food available was not your "normal" diet, it wouldn't take too long before you would eat what was available in order to survive. This might not be the best for your health, but it would certainly help you survive.
Re: Raw Diet. Raw diet is actually cheaper to feed than a high quality pet food when you buy in bulk. I only pay about half as much as I did for top of the line commercial foods. Plus, I didn't have a choice with one of my dogs and two of my cats because they could not digest commercial foods. Pets that have an allergy to a protein source will usually NOT have an allergy to that protein source in raw form. Cats and dogs are meant to digest raw meat, cooked meat doesn't have the same enzymes that aid in digestion. Just like lactose intolerant individuals. Humans are the only species that continues to consume dairy after weaning and many are unable to digest lactose. Once you get the hang of things its not hard to balance it at all. You just need to provide enough variety. The basic "recipe" is 80% RMB and 20% offal. In the beginning you can weigh it out but once you are doing it for a while you get an eye for it. In addition, a raw diet is much more flexible than commercial diets. As hunters and scavengers it is not unusual to gorge and then fast while searching for more food. Everywhere I go I am complimented on my dogs skin, coat, teeth, and breath. All the health problems that I was previously paying out the ass at the vet to figure out what was wrong disappeared with raw diet. In fact I almost lost Piper, she was near death from Iams food. My vet had recommended it, I do not see that vet any longer. What you spend on raw or a high quality diet is quickly made back by avoidance of vet visits! My ex-stepdads cat needed a $500 surgery as a result of purina cat kibble.
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