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Originally Posted by brutus'mother  I knew my dog didn't NEED any grains and his digestive system wasn't capable of digesting them anyway. |
A dog may not NEED grains, but the only grains they aren't capable of digesting are RAW grains. Cooked grains are digestible - it's the cooking that begins the process of breaking down the carbohydrates, and while the digestibility does not come anywhere near the digestibility of eggs, for example, it's a fact that for some dogs a grain based diet is more tolerable than a meat based diet (I had one of those dogs). Also, if dogs weren't digesting the cooked and processed grains in crap dog foods, you'd never see an obese dog who eats them, would you? We'd be looking at a continent full of starvlings due to a lack of meat, when most dogs in North America are in fact overweight.
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Originally Posted by brutus'mother To answer moondog - absolutely. You must feed bones to get the calcium. |
Actually, I didn't ask the question because I didn't know the answer....I asked the question of the person who thought a diet of ground meat might be better for her puppy....so she would ask herself that question and realize that she didn't know the answer........hopefully sparking the realization that there is work to be done BEFORE moving from a balanced commercial diet to a home-prepared raw or cooked diet.
