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Originally Posted by samanthac That was my thought as well. Wild canids go days without food sometimes and they certainly have a very varied diet. And they seem to do just fine. |
Doing just fine......for what living conditions? They are exposed to minimal disease, as they don't have humans who travel from dog place (event) to dog place (training facility/event) and bring home bugs. They aren't asked to perform on command (competition) and thus present unnatural challenges repeatedly to their structure (when, in the wild, does a dog repeatedly jump 1m jumps? Climb walls over and over to retreive or practice contacts? Jump series of jumps over and over?)
I don't buy the "in the wild" argument at all. A lot of research shows, via mitochondrial DNA, that our dogs are NOT direct descendants of wolves. Our dogs have not lived in the wild for eons.
Shall we allow them to run loose in the neighborhood? Form packs which hunt/kill neighborhood cats, small children and other suitable prey? Stay intact and breed as pack order/nature dictates? Stop vaccinating against all diseases and allow parvo and rabies to just take their natural toll on the population?
While my dogs certainly don't eat on a fixed schedule, they do eat twice per day (unless ill). HOw often did OUR ancestors eat? Would YOU like to have to go out and hunt/gather,and not eat if you weren't able to find anything?? Why would you subject your dog to this same archaeic method??