On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:13:24 -0500, Char
wrote:


Yet you can't provide any evidence to back up what you present here
while I can. Their natural diet has not changed. Wolves are the absolute
closest relatives dogs have and their digestive systems are totally
identical.

http://rawfed.com/myths/changed.html

The domestic dog is an extremely close relative of the gray wolf,
differing from it by at most 0.2% of mDNA sequence...

Dogs are so much like wolves physiologically that they are frequently
used in wolf studies as a physiological model for wolf body processes
(Mech, L.D. 2003. Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation).
Additionally, dogs and wolves share 99.8% of their mitochondrial DNA
(Wayne, R.K. Molecular Evolution of the Dog Family). This next quote is
from Robert K. Wayne, Ph.D., and his discussion on canine genetics
(taken from www.fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.html).

From mouth to anus, dog and wolf physiology and basic anatomy are
almost precisely the same. What is the significance of this? This means
dogs should still be fed a carnivorous diet to meet their needs. What
does it matter if they don't have the same digestive capabilities as a
wolf? How does that justify feeding them an even harder-to-digest meal
of commercial pet food or cooked food? How does that justify feeding
them any differently from a prey model diet that has been proven by
nature to be completely sufficient?

Here are some of your false, misleading statements:

1) kibble fed dogs [all] have health problems that are caused by the
kibble

2) commercial dog food has nutritional value similar to cardboard

3) raw fed dogs do not have health problems

You've been asked countless times to provide evidence to back up these
statements, and yet you haven't. Why? Because you can't.