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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I only could find one single sentence about the fur thing, and it was from "wolf care managers" - so I couldn't gather much from one sentence. And, I've never heard this anywhere else.
As for the other link - as soon I got to "dogs are omnivores" - I couldn't put much validity in it, but I did skim it.   |
Since I love a good discussion as much as the next one, here's a couple of things I've found. " NO human nutritionist is recommending that all humans should eat a diet that only consists of bananas and leaves based on the theory that humans descended from the Chimpanzee even though the DNA profiles of the Chimpanzee/human is a closer match than the DNA profiles of the wolf/dog. And . . . there is not a single dog owner feeding their dogs a diet based on the wolf/dog theory who is also feeding themselves a diet based on the nutrients a wild Chimpanzee eats." Here's the link for this
IS A RAW FOOD DIET THE ANSWER I also found this. "the domestic dog, are all omnivores, and the coyote C. latrans can subsist on fruit and other plant materials when prey is difficult to find (2). The diet of the ancestral species of the dog, the wolf Canis lupus, consists predominantly of meat in most habitats in which it is currently found. However, the dentition of the modern wolf is not dissimilar to that of jackals (3), and is consistent with a more omnivorous diet. Before persecution by humans, wolves were able to occupy a wider range of habitats than they do today; thus, it is possible that they formerly consumed a more wide-ranging diet." And here's the link.
The Evolutionary Basis for the Feeding Behavior of Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) and Cats (Felis catus) -- Bradshaw 136 (7): 1927S -- Journal of Nutrition I also found that the diet of the maned wolf of Brazil consists of a notable percentage of what is called 'wolf's fruit'. I'm posting this not to discredit raw feeders, only to point out that the issue is not so clear cut as it may seem on first glance. I do see benefits to raw feeding but also think that anyone that goes that route should research it carefully. With the advent of commercial raw diets and proponents of raw saying how easy it is, it's easy for a person to 'just switch' to raw without giving it much thought and that 'could' be dangerous.
