My labrador likes to eat vegetables from our garden. I know it's not because
she's hungry because she has done it when there has been meat in her bowl.
So far she has eaten carrots, a capsicum, part of a butternut pumpkin and
several corn on the cob.... Strange behaviour for a carnivore.... Oh I
almost forgot.. she has eaten about 40lbs of pine wood that used to be part
of our deck

Phil L wrote:
chardonnay9 wrote:
Phil L wrote:
chardonnay9 wrote:
lovedemdogs wrote:
Hi,

I am a new dog owner and would really love to find out what's the
best food or type of food
for my beautiful dog.

Thanks!
The best food for dogs is what their digestive systems were meant to
eat.
Meat, bones and organ meats, raw if at all possible, cooked if not.

Anything is better than kibble.
No large animals live on meat alone.
Uh, sure they do. They are called carnivores. I'm sure it was
mentioned in elementary school a few times??


Yes, carnivorous means meat eater, but if you feed any meat eater nothing
but meat, it will eventually starve to death,

What planet does that happen on? I know people who have fed nothing but
meat to their pets for decades and the pets certainly didn't starve to
death.

people have tried feeding
reptiles on nothing but meat and offal because they disagree about the furry
animals thing, but they have killed their pets instead

Furry animals *are* meat.



Even lions and tigers make a bee-line for their prey's digestive
system, which is normally full of hay, roots, leaves and other
vegetation, as do wolves, which I presume you are making your
assumptions on.
Are you sure of that? Cuz it's not true.

It is true, and the 'lions share', meaning what the pride leader gets,
before any of the cubs or females get, is just this - the entrails, the most
nutritious part of the kill, which may be responsible for the high mortality
rates of lion cubs.

Entrails are not stomach content and this has nothing to do with high
mortality rates of lion cubs.

kat wrote:
"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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In article ,
chardonnay9 wrote:
Uh, sure they do. They are called carnivores. I'm sure it was mentioned
in elementary school a few times??
Eating meat does not exclude eating anything else. Humans
are carnivores, and so are hogs. Both eat plenty of plant
material. Both need plenty of plant material.

Humans are carnivores? ROFLOL! This is why I kill filed you Melinda. You
are stupid.

When you eat both meat and veggies you are an *omnivore*. Elementary
school stuff here....


Some would even say humans do best with a diet primarily made up of plant
material and little meat.

Kathy

Some say just about everything given the chance. What's your point?

Steve wrote:
My labrador likes to eat vegetables from our garden. I know it's not because
she's hungry because she has done it when there has been meat in her bowl.
So far she has eaten carrots, a capsicum, part of a butternut pumpkin and
several corn on the cob.... Strange behaviour for a carnivore.... Oh I
almost forgot.. she has eaten about 40lbs of pine wood that used to be part
of our deck

Eating wood is definitely a strange behavior. Obviously the dog has some
issues. Some dogs eat rocks. Some dogs eat socks.

What is your point?

On Jun 28, 11:52*am, lovedemdogs wrote:
Hi,

I am a new dog owner and would really love to find out what's the best
food or type of food
for my beautiful dog.

Thanks!

Hi, it varies with age and needs. Puppies have different nutritional
needs to older dogs. I started my boy on vegetables (frozen ones
lightly steamed) augmented by loaf or dog bits (but the brands with no
preservatives) at a young age and if he needs to drop a kilo or two in
weight I just up the vegies and cut back on the meat loaf. This is a
good startegy to keep him satisified and manage his weight.

On Jun 30, 6:20*pm, "Steve" wrote:
My labrador likes to eat vegetables from our garden. I know it's not because
she's hungry because she has done it when there has been meat in her bowl..
So far she has eaten carrots, a capsicum, part of a butternut pumpkin and
several corn on the cob.... Strange behaviour for a carnivore.... Oh I
almost forgot.. she has eaten about 40lbs of pine wood that used to be part
of our deck

As a pup my golden was partial to the corners of my bed and he loved
the sound of ripping material-preferably ONE of my sports sox. He has
vegetables every day (with meat) and loves them. The local pet shop
makes the meatloaf without any preservative and he has a bone most
nights so he eats very well.

In article ,
chardonnay9 wrote:
Humans are carnivores? ROFLOL! This is why I kill filed you Melinda. You
are stupid.

UR KILLFILE R B0RKEN.

"Carnivorous" is not exclusive. "Carnivore" refers to the
ability to eat meat. "Carnivore" doesn't refer to not
eating anything else.

Posting stuff like that tends to exasperate your reputation
as an undereducated loudmouth who doesn't understand simple
vocabulary.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

Melinda Shore wrote:
In article ,
chardonnay9 wrote:
Humans are carnivores? ROFLOL!

This is why you shouldn't believe everything you think, Chard,
especially if it was taught to you in grade school.

This is why I kill filed you Melinda. You
are stupid.

UR KILLFILE R B0RKEN.

"Carnivorous" is not exclusive. "Carnivore" refers to the
ability to eat meat. "Carnivore" doesn't refer to not
eating anything else.

Not only that, Chard, the line between "omnivore" and
"facultative carnivore" is fuzzy w/r/t the percentage of flesh
vs. vegetation consumed in a diet. And dogs are considered
facultative carnivores (as opposed to obligate carnivores).

Posting stuff like that tends to exasperate your reputation
as an undereducated loudmouth who doesn't understand simple
vocabulary.

I feel exacerbated.

FurPaw
--
Don't believe everything that you think.

To reply, unleash the dog.

"Steve" said in
rec.pets.dogs.health:

My labrador likes to eat vegetables from our garden. I know
it's not because she's hungry because she has done it when
there has been meat in her bowl. So far she has eaten
carrots, a capsicum, part of a butternut pumpkin and
several corn on the cob.... Strange behaviour for a
carnivore....

I gave up on a garden, especially tomatoes, what with my dogs
eating them from the vine before they were pick-worthy. I wised
up after being given a bunch of raspberry stalks and planted
them outside my fenced back yard.

Oh I almost forgot.. she has eaten about 40lbs of pine wood
that used to be part of our deck

I hope that she's no longer doing that - pine lumber is no good
for a dog's digestion system, even a lab's.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

"FurPaw" wrote in message
...

I feel exacerbated.

There's a cure for that now...

Paul and Muttley