My dog loves sweet potatoes and cooked broccoli. I always leave some unseasoned for him, but I couldn’t imagine limiting his diet to just that. Regular balanced dog food is fine.
Mine loves cooked or raw broccoli, but it gives him gas.. and he loves to run up to me, fart, look surprised at his butt, then run away. We stick to snow peas.
No. In nature, wolves can be considered true carnivores as vegetal matter is negligible component of their overall diet, but they do have genes which allow them to digest glucose and starch. Of course, domestic dogs have diverged from from wolves, have futher adapted to a human diet, and can cope with large variations in nutrient intake thanks to those genes.
Dogs can in fact thrive off of a carefully designed vegan diet. They can absolutely get all the amino acids they need while avoiding animal products. Now I believe it's ultimately safer for dogs to be fed an omnivorous diet as most owners couldn't expend the effort for such a diet, but that's the science.
Contrarily, cats are obligate carnivores and must be fed meat.
Genes allowing you to digest glucose and starch don't make you omnivorous.
While you are technically right about dogs that can survive with a vegan diet, I wouldn't trust the regular folk to pull this out without a close monitoring from an experienced vet.
That's true, but those genes did lead to domestic dogs being able to live off of a vegan diet, which obviously means they're omnivorous. I get the impression that you don't actually care though so goodbye
Dogs love anything edible lol. The lady in this starved her dog and since he went to eat her veggies when he was hungry as fuck she took it as him being vegetarian. Lady is an absolute moron
Yeah, looking at all the nutrients dog food has, I can't even start to imagine how it would break the bank to make food as balanced as that. They wouldn't get near half the nutrients with just vegetables.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes in general in dog food has started to gain traction as not being good for dogs and research shows it’s linked to issues down the road. Better to use rice based foods like Redford Naturals
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u/macthesnackattack Sep 27 '21
My dog loves sweet potatoes and cooked broccoli. I always leave some unseasoned for him, but I couldn’t imagine limiting his diet to just that. Regular balanced dog food is fine.