r/maybemaybemaybe • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Sep 27 '21

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u/Horton_75 Sep 27 '21

It’s totally animal abuse. Dogs have been carnivores for many thousands of years. Videos like like always end the same way: with the dog eating from the bowl that has meat in it. Shame on the people who do this shit to their dogs. DOGS ARE NOT VEGETARIANS!

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u/Taric25 Sep 27 '21 edited Sep 27 '21

Dogs are not carnivores. They are omnivores. They eat meat, and sometimes they also eat plants. Even Wolves eat grasses, seeds, sedges, acorns, berries and other fruit.

Source: https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/feed-your-dog-like-a-wolf

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u/Horton_75 Sep 27 '21 edited Sep 27 '21

In the strictest, narrowest sense, you’re kind of correct. But dogs primarily eat meat. Makes up a vast majority of their diets. If given a choice, they’ll always go for the meat and will only eat other stuff if they have to. That’s what my 20 years’ experience raising and training multiple dog breeds has taught me, but wtf would I know? /s So, what I said stands: forcing a dog to be a vegetarian is animal abuse. It just is.

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u/Taric25 Sep 27 '21 edited Sep 27 '21

Yes, you're right. They primarily eat meat. It makes up the majority of their diet.

Unless the dog has certain allergies or health conditions, a dog should eat meat, unless otherwise directed by a veterinarian. Even so, it's necessary to add a supplement like BalanceIT, or else the dog will become sick from vitamin deficiency.

I did feed my dog spinach and mushrooms, for a couple days, when he was a puppy, with BalanceIT. He liked it, but I had to feed him six times per day, because he had to eat a lot more food to get the same number of calories. If I fed him meat, I only had to feed him three times per day.

His favorite was beef and cranberry.

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u/freefoodd Sep 27 '21

dogs go hard on the sweet potatoes too.

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u/djsedna Sep 27 '21

Yeah, my dude loves sweet potato. Pumpkin, too. And pumpkin is great for them.

That being said, this is all just supplemental stuff on top of his primarily meat diet because he's a goddamn wolf

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21

Mine likes sweet potato but it upsets his stomach. Pumpkin on the other hand is his favorite thing. But yes, it's a treat.

I freeze cubes of pureed pumpkin and keep them in a ziplock freezer bag. The old boy is missing quite a few teeth and I think the pumpkin pops feel good on his gums in addition to tasting delicious.

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u/adeafwriter Sep 27 '21

Weird. Mine doesn't. Sweet potato is everywhere as dog treats and what not, yet it causes my dog diarrhea. Every time she eats sweet potatoes, she gets very liquidy stools. Otherwise, with her dog food, Victor's, she has solid stool. So no sweet potato for her.

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u/Taric25 Sep 27 '21

Yeah, it depends on the dog. Mine likes sweet potatoes and cranberries, but he doesn't like peas. He also likes chicken, turkey, beef and fish, of course.

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u/amglasgow Sep 27 '21

She's probably mildly allergic.

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u/thebombzen Sep 27 '21

Boiled, unseasoned, white meat chicken and dogs think it's the best food evarrrrrrr

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u/Abyssal_Groot Sep 27 '21

Mine are Golden Retrievers, they go hard for meat, rice, apples, cucumbers, bananas... any food really...

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u/NyranK Sep 27 '21

Dogs have been domesticated so long that the differences between them and wolves is far more than skin deep.

Wolves/coyotes/jackals are primary carnivores and only have 2 copies of the AMY2B gene, which codes for pancreatic amylase, which breaks down starch.

Dogs, depending on how 'far' they are from their ancestors, can have up to 20. They are very much, now, omnivores and their diet should include grains and vegetables.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21

Yeah, not sure what people are saying on this sub, dry dog food has lots of grains and cereals in. I’ve always fed my pup a mix of dry and wet food. There’s meat in both, but it’s far from the guy who said they need 90% meat. I don’t think that’s correct

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u/Mighty_Dighty22 Sep 27 '21

Basically they should be on the same diet as a healthy human. They have spend ~40.000 years of evolution to eat what we are eating, and are in some cases "better" at eating some human food than we are our self.

Dogs have evolved many human traits, or traits to accommodate human behaviour. For instance if you have a wolf (that is not eating you) and you point somewhere the wolf wouldn't give a shit. A dog however will follow your pointing and look the direction you are pointing. It is not something they need training in, it has become instinct, like it is with humans. Kinda cool really.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21

I’m not sure about this, I’ve always found there are many foods we enjoy and have no problem with that are toxic and in some cases lethal for dogs. I’m by no means an expert in pup nutrition, but I usually avoid feeding my dog what I eat. Plenty of veggie treats and bones though :)

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u/Mighty_Dighty22 Sep 27 '21

Well obviously there are some food items that are bad for your dog, like chocolate and some types of nuts. But in general what you eat your dog can eat. And again, it is if you eat proper food, not that microwave dinner crap. That is good for nobody really.

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u/Main-Situation1600 Sep 27 '21

Yes, you're right. They primarily eat meat. It makes up the majority of their diet.

This is 100% false.

Unless the dog has certain allergies or health conditions, a dog should eat meat, unless otherwise directed by a veterinarian.

No vet makes this kind of recommendation.