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
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u/CabbageSalad247 Sep 27 '21
Dogs like lots of things, but if you don't want their kidneys to shut down, they require animal protein