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What's the best food for your Dog?
chardonnay9 wrote:
Phil L wrote: 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. Earth, and that's because they didn't feed them entirely on meat, or their animals had to scavenge for vegetable matter, which is essential. 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. And inside the furry animal is corn, oats, rice, carrots, peas, broccolli and seeds, which is what keeps the snakes alive (snakes can't chew) 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. They eat the stomach contents of their prey: Characteristics of carnivores Characteristics commonly 'associated' with carnivores include organs for capturing and disarticulating prey (teeth and claws serve these functions in many vertebrates) and status as a predator. In truth, these assumptions may be misleading, as some carnivores do not hunt and are scavengers (though most hunting carnivores will scavenge when the opportunity exists). Thus they do not have the characteristics associated with hunting carnivores. Carnivores have comparatively short digestive systems as they are not required to break down tough cellulose found in plants. Plant material In most cases, some plant material is essential for adequate nutrition, particularly with regard to minerals, vitamins and fiber. Most wild carnivores consume this in the digestive system of their prey. Many carnivores also eat herbivore dung, presumably to obtain essential nutrients that they could not otherwise obtain, since their dentition and digestive system do not permit efficient processing of vegetable matter. ------------------------------------------------------------- The above passage is from wiki's carnivore page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore Even though it's debatable as to whether dogs are true carnivores, facultative carnivores or omnivores, either way they cannot live on meat alone, because it's already been shown that pure carnivores (lions, tigers etc) *have* to eat some vegetable matter regularly, so even if you lump dogs in this class, you have yo agree that dogs need vegetation to thrive -- Phil L RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008 |
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What's the best food for your Dog?
Phil L wrote:
Even though it's debatable as to whether dogs are true carnivores, facultative carnivores or omnivores, either way they cannot live on meat alone, because it's already been shown that pure carnivores (lions, tigers etc) *have* to eat some vegetable matter regularly, so even if you lump dogs in this class, you have yo agree that dogs need vegetation to thrive Actually you haven't shown that they *have* to eat vegetable matter at all. |
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What's the best food for your Dog?
Melinda Shore wrote:
exasperate your reputation This is my new favorite phrase. If I could just figure out how to work int into a sentence.... |
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What's the best food for your Dog?
exasperate your reputation
This is my new favorite phrase. If I could just figure out how to work int into a sentence.... Isn't there some literature you should have read that would answer this for you? |
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What's the best food for your Dog?
Sharon Too wrote:
exasperate your reputation This is my new favorite phrase. If I could just figure out how to work int into a sentence.... Isn't there some literature you should have read that would answer this for you? Well, the only thing I've been reading lately is my several hundred page medical text. And that doesn't say word about it ;-) |
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"Tara Green" wrote in message ... Sharon Too wrote: exasperate your reputation This is my new favorite phrase. If I could just figure out how to work int into a sentence.... Isn't there some literature you should have read that would answer this for you? Well, the only thing I've been reading lately is my several hundred page medical text. And that doesn't say word about it ;-) Exasperate means to frustrate or make angry. Can that be applied to one's reputation? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exasperate Exacerbate means to irritate or make worse. Which apparently happened to FurPaw http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exacerbate If aspirate means to breathe or inhale, then exaspirate would mean to stop breathing? I suppose one's reputation could do that... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aspirate Paul and Muttley |
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If aspirate means to breathe or inhale, then exaspirate would mean to stop
breathing? I suppose one's reputation could do that... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aspirate Then there's masturbate........ come on... it was only a matter of time |
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What's the best food for your Dog?
"Sharon Too" wrote in message ... If aspirate means to breathe or inhale, then exaspirate would mean to stop breathing? I suppose one's reputation could do that... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aspirate Then there's masturbate........ come on... it was only a matter of time Do you really mean "cum on"? Hey, you got it started... There was a guy in my drafting class in HS whose name was Rocky Bates. The instructor insisted on addressing him by the salutation "Master". Paul and Muttley |
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Sharon Too wrote: come on... it was only a matter of time With Paul, you can be sure it was already happening. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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"chardonnay9" wrote in message m... 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? There needs to be a point? Ok to satisfy your request for a point, the point is this: Sharing for the sake of sharing and having a giggle. Being light hearted and having fun. As for the eating wood, she's no longer teething so she stopped at the 40lb mark. It would appear that some our K9 counterparts behaviour would be in conflict with your ideas on their eating habits.. Ooh another point! lol. |
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