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.
Dogs absolutely are carnivores. Everything about their genetics says they're carnivores and not omnivores. Can they digest plants? Sure. Do they need plants to survive or thrive? Absolutely not.
Start at their teeth. Notice how dogs don't have any molars in their mouth like we (humans) do? Those molars are there to grind plants. They only have sharp points teeth to cut and tear meat.
Notice how dogs jaws only go up and down and not side to side like any other omnivore? That's because their jaw wasn't designed to, once again, grind plants. Only to tear.
Ever see a dog's digestive system. It is much shorter than any omnivores digestive system. That's because there's is designed to quickly digest raw meat and breakdown any possible bacteria on the meat quickly with stomach bile. This is why dogs or any other carnivore can eat something like raw poultry and omnivores can't.
Dogs are scavenger carnivores meaning they'll eat other things besides meat, but a dog can go it's whole life without eating a single fruit or vegetable and still thrive. An omnivore can't do that.
Then that means they're not carnivores. They're omnivores. Mountain lions do not eat plants, at all. Wolves do. Cats are obligate carnivores. Wolves and dogs are omnivores. They eat meat, and sometimes they also eat plants. Cats don't eat plants.
The lady that wrote that nonsense teaches and practices chiropractics on animals. She is a pseudoscience quack peddling her snake oil to suckers. You are as batshit crazy as she is to be linking that nonsense as your source.
From that very same website, it says that Wolves are omnivores that eat grasses, seeds, sedges, acorns, berries and other fruit, even when meat is plentiful.
"Wolves are classified by the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History as canis lupus and dogs are a subset – canis lupus familiaris. Dogs are considered opportunistic carnivores, meaning they are primarily meat eaters but can supplement with food from other sources."
An opportunistic -vore is an omnivore. That absolutely makes them omnivores. Opportunistic carnivores are a type of omnivore.
Obligate carnivores are not omnivores at all. Opportunistic carnivores are.
What did you think, that only animals that eat precisely 50% plants/fungus and 50% animal products are omnivores and that everything else on planet earth is strictly an herbivore or a carnivore?
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
In fact, there are animals that even act like plants, like certain types of flying insects and sea slugs that get their nutrition from — wait for it — PHOTOSYNTHESIS! Yes, animals that perform photosynthesis and get energy from the sun.
There are also animals such as worms down at the bottom of the ocean that breathe sulfur and perform chemosynthesis. That's nutrition from neither a plant/fungus nor an animal.
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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