On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:34:46 -0400, "cshenk" wrote:

"sighthounds & siberians" wrote

...proving yet again that dogs, like people, are all individuals. I
am always amazed when I hear sighthound owners talk about free-feeding
their dogs. Of my 8 sighthounds (four different breeds), there is one
(1) that wouldn't eat until she exploded.

Ha! I though that was scenthounds but I guess it's both!

I think it's true of many dogs, regardless of breed. With a few
exceptions such as Labs tending to eat odd, non-food items like rocks
(kind of like Siamese cats being wool-eaters), I don't really think
there are eating habits that are breed traits. Ex-racing greyhounds
are fed 4D meet at the track, but they're no more or less amenable to
raw feeding than other breeds, and they like kibble just fine.
Siberian Huskies eat a lot of fish during races, but none of mine
liked fish and one of them loved veggies and pasta and turned his nose
up at raw meat. Sighthounds and scenthouds are just subgroups of the
hound group, and while they have things in common, I think those
things mostly have to do with the purpose for which the breeds were
bred (hunt by scent or by sight). There are probably more
dissimilarities then similarities between the individual sight/scent
hound breeds.