What is the best natural diet for dogs?

What is the best natural diet for dogs?

It is said that domestic dogs evolved from wolves around 50,000 years ago. Of course, there is ongoing debate among experts about how much domesticated pets have changed since they lived in the wild, which raises the question of what the “natural” diet for dogs is. Are dogs now strictly carnivores or omnivores? Predators or scavengers? Should dogs eat the same way as their wild ancestors since they became domestic pets?

The benefits of the diet that best suits their bodies are clear, and therefore dogs should eat what is best for them.
Just think about how you feel and how your body and brain function after a fresh, healthy, nutritious lunch or a quick snack. Your dog feels the same way.

Okay, but what is best for dogs?

Dogs are carnivores. Based on the structure of their digestive system, their bodies are designed to obtain most of the energy and nutrients needed for their cells, tissues, and nervous system to function from meat (protein and fat).
It is also true that domesticated dogs like to taste everything edible (and inedible), especially if their owner is already enjoying it.
However, this does not mean that they should actually eat everything.

Dogs, like all animals, have a natural diet. Normally, this diet is simple, meat-based, low in carbohydrates, and suitable for carnivores.
>The easiest way to understand this is to consider what lions, the kings of carnivores, are fed at the zoo.
They are not fed wheat, rice, grains, quinoa, or bulgur. And who has ever seen a lion grazing in a cornfield?

With this knowledge in mind, it is worth comparing the ingredients of a popular dry food and a complete BARF menu to see which one better supports the healthy functioning of our pet’s body.

Ingredients of popular dry food:

Ingredients: Lamb meal 25.0%; Rice 25.0%; Whole grain corn; Beet pulp; Poultry fat; Pea starch; Yeast; Corn gluten; Minerals; Carob flour.

Ingredients of the complete BARF menu:

Ingredients: Lamb with ground bones, lamb offal, vegetable and fruit pulp (apple, beet, spinach, broccoli, orange, pear).

Which of the two do you think is the more “simple, meat-protein-based, low-carbohydrate” food? Which is more natural for dogs, and which was made in a laboratory?

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