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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i'm surprised elli hasn't replied here, she's a walking encyclopedia on this stuff.
i feed my dog raw food. i use http://www.primalpetfoods.com and also raw turkey necks, chicken wings, etc. for treats he gets raw baby carrots.
dogs = wolves, not people, and have different nutritional requirements than us.
wolves eat raw food they just killed. the 1st thing they would eat is the organ meat so make sure that is a part of any raw food diet. next, the actual meat and 3rd are the bones/tendons, etc. which provide many of the nutrient s dogs need and also satiate their need to chew etc. dogs/wolves have never naturally eaten cooked rice (or any complex carbs such as rice, potatoes, etc. |
Dog's evolved from wolves, yes, but because of people.
While nobody knows for absolute certain, the latest theory is that dogs evolved very quickly out of wolves when humans began living in permanent settlements. The wolves with the highest threshold of human tolerance were able to feed the easiest from the first human dump sites and very quickly evolved in to the more managable species we know as dogs today.
It would explain why ancient civilizations attached an almost magical value to the dog as a single generation of human may have seen dogs evolve out of wolves which would have seemed like pure magic to them.
It's actually a pretty interesting theory and implies that evolution in fact CAN happen at a very rapid rate, something that hasn't been thought to be true in the past.