Are dogs carnivores

Dogs are omnivores. So you will usually see dogs eating both meat and some cooked vegetables without any obvious abnormalities in their gut. However, when raising a dog, it is recommended that the owner purchase good quality, nutritionally balanced dog food as the dog's staple food and not feed the dog meat frequently to avoid causing the dog picky eating and pancreatitis.
The ancestors of dogs are wolves, who have well-developed canine teeth and are carnivores.

Although dogs traditionally belong to the carnivore category, this does not mean that a domestic dog's diet is limited to meat. Unlike other true carnivores such as cats, domestic dogs can live on a healthy diet of vegetables and grains, and in fact have a well-balanced diet.

Typical wild carnivores get their nutrition from the stomach contents of the herbivores they catch, so they are often nutritionally unbalanced. But domestic dogs cope well with this, and they can be vegetarian, especially when these foods are paired with eggs or milk (milk is not suitable for puppies, who have weak stomachs and cannot absorb and digest milk) (not strict vegetarianism, or lacto-ovo vegetarianism). On the other hand, domestic dogs are more tolerant of meat than humans, and they do not suffer from metabolic diseases such as clogged arteries due to high meat consumption. In situations of extreme stress, a high-protein diet (high consumption of meat) can help prevent damage to muscle tissue.

What is the best way to feed your dog food

Different age groups are recommended to feed different dog foods. First, weaning dogs are recommended to be fed weaning milk cake food, while the dog food needs to be softened before feeding it to the dog. As dogs get older and their teeth develop, they can gradually transition to feeding hard dog food, but not directly to hard dog food. Dogs older than 6 months of age can be started on puppy food, at which point they can be fed hard dog food directly. Once the dog is older than 15 months of age, you can start feeding adult dog food. It is important to note that if the dog's digestive system is weak, it is recommended that it be fed less and more often than four times a day. Also, a reasonable amount of daily feeding should be chosen, and overfeeding is not recommended to avoid causing excessive obesity in the dog.

Classification of dogs

(1) Watchdog: guarding human safety and property, housekeeping.

(2) Play dog: companionship, playfulness.

(3)Hunting dog: hunting charge.

(4) Livestock dogs: sheepdogs, cattle dogs.

(5) medical dogs: because the dog is optimistic by nature, so suitable for the care and companionship of people with heart disease, depression, autism (excluding violent patients); provided that the choice has been well-domesticated dog will not cause trouble, otherwise it may increase the burden of aggravating the disease.

(6) Care dogs: care for people who have difficulty taking care of themselves, paralyzed people; can help people take off shoes/socks, insert cards to withdraw money, open/close doors, turn on/off lights, push/pull cars, fetch things from refrigerators.

(7) Guide dogs: compared to care dogs have a heavier responsibility, always accompany the master, most of the things the master does need the assistance of a guide dog; guide the master to cross the road, the dog alone to go shopping.

(8) Military dogs: some countries have a special military dog medal; military dogs, police dogs, customs drug detection dogs, airport gunpowder monitoring dogs.

(9) search and rescue dogs: avalanches, earthquakes, fires and other disasters occur for search and rescue work.

(10) Traffic dogs: such as the Arctic Circle near the Eskimos and some people in northeast China use "sled dogs".

(11) Performance dogs: Most circuses have dogs specifically for performance, with many skills and talents.

(12) Experimental dogs: Medical experiments: In medical and pharmaceutical research, dogs are often used for experiments because the weight of mice is too different from that of humans.

Dogs can eat pork?

For dogs can eat pork this issue is also a certain controversy, there are a series of statements that prove that dogs can not eat pork, such as dogs can not digest the enzymes in the body of pork, pork fat globules are too large, may block the dog's microvascular, pet food has not seen how to use pork as raw material. However, owners who have fed their dogs pork also say that feeding pork does not have any effect on their dogs.

First of all, pork and beef, lamb, chicken, duck meat, etc., knowledge to provide protein, fat, vitamins and minerals for dogs, and generally do not need any special digestive enzymes for it. And for the owners of pork should also be clear, after eating pork, the dog will not have any digestive problems, unless the amount fed is too large.

Some people also say that pork is unhygienic and has the possibility of parasites. For such a statement is actually a bit ludicrous, generally speaking, most of the way we buy pork is directly from the market, and these are sold after the quarantine of the pork, even we will be assured to eat these pork, let alone dogs. As for the problem of parasites generally do not have to worry, whether it is beef or some other meat, we can not guarantee 100% that the meat a little parasites are not. Besides, when we eat pork, we cook it and then eat it, so there is no need to worry about this problem. Of course, it is also recommended that dogs be fed cooked meat to ensure that they are not threatened by parasites.
Occasionally, you can feed your dog cooked pork to improve the taste, but be careful to clean your mouth!

As for the majority of dog food we do not see the shadow of pork, not that you can not feed your dog pork, but and many countries have some connection with the region. The United States is one of the more developed dog breeding countries, but most of the United States is based on chicken, duck, fish, beef and lamb consumption, raising pork is not a lot of field owners, relatively speaking, the total amount of pork leftover trimmings or livestock with materials will be relatively small. Pet food is mostly processed using raw materials that are not consumed by humans, therefore, the pig-derived ingredients in pet food will be relatively small. So the reason why pork is rarely found in foreign dog food is not because it is unhealthy, but the raw material itself is relatively small, compared to the United States China's pork industry is much larger, but because of the influence of foreign countries, but also rarely pork as one of the raw materials for dog food.

In addition, the protein homogeneity of pork is only 13.2%, almost the tail of all meat homogeneity, while the fat is as high as 37%, ranking the top of all meat. Want to get a higher protein content, through other high protein content of meat to achieve the purpose will be easier. Because of this, pork is not going to be used as the primary source of protein in pet food. However, there are two sides to everything, and although pork does not contain much protein, it contains several times more vitamin B1 than other meats.

So it's not that dogs can't eat pork, it's just that from some nutritional standpoint, pork is not a very suitable raw material for dog food. Of course, if the dog occasionally does not want to eat dog food, we can also use boiled pork to adjust the taste of the dog, but in general, it is not recommended to feed more.

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