|Barked: Sat Jan 26, '13 1:08pm PST |
|No, its not.
Adapting to less ideal conditions is not the same as completely evolving a different digestive tract.
Dogs have the physiology of a carnivore. I don't honestly give two spits if over time they adapted to be able to tolerate grains, I shoot for IDEAL. And no carnivore under ideal conditions eats any significant portion of grains, fruits, or vegetables.
And to assume how kibble diets are now, has always been the way dogs have eaten, is SO vastly false that its startling. Kibble has been around for barely 100 years.
Go back and read the old literature on this. Go back and see what dogs WERE actually eating over 100 years ago. A personal favorite of mine, by von Stephanitz and his breeding dogs, is outlined in great detail. Bread scrap and "biscuits (as he called them), were given in times of desperation or when convenience was demanded. They did NOT eat such things as their primary diet. He does include some grains and vegetables, but the basis of his diet is raw butcher scrap from horse and other livestock. Organs, muscles, bone.
And what he did with his dogs is more than anyone, any vet, or any scientist can possible recreate today. He CREATED a breed, one of the most successful in the history of dog breeds, and those were his guidelines.
So please explain to me how my dogs somehow evolved over the course of 100 years to require a high starch, high carb, high grain/veg/etc diet, when that's NEVER been a significant portion of their diet?
I'd really be curious to know.
Its a shame people need a peer reviewed study to tell them the obvious.
Edited by author Sat Jan 26, '13 1:09pm PST
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