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get this delicate balance of complete nutrition
right. Hence it’s imperative that they choose
pet food which nourishes their pets correctly.

#GladI’mNotaWolf !! Let’s try to understand a dog’s biology at a macro
level for some basic knowhow. Very prominent
and distinct research which have studied a
n the recent times, world over, we have dog’s physiology states that the gut is more in
noticed humanization of pets. The emotional compliance with the genetics of an omnivore
Ibond, the sense of indispensability, the love than a carnivore. That means that dogs are
and affection for them have made our new biologically evolved to eat both vegetarian as
age pet parents very zealous to research and well as non-vegetarian diets. Even the digestive
learn everything about their fur babies. As true enzymes which are present in the stomach of
to every study, even here, we all have come a dog, can process all carbohydrates. Given to
across grandma’s tales, myths, well conducted these factors, veterinarians and researchers

experiments and more. All so confusing, Isn’t of this field state that dogs should follow an
it!!! omnivorous diet for an optimum health.
Consult your vet for more information.
Between many questions that tug and
tangle our brains, the most prominent Another much debated talk point
one is “What’s the right diet for our is the process of evolution for
dogs?” and why do packed pet dogs. Contrary to a myth that
foods even exist!! Well, the has been made popular,
answer is, as human dogs are not wolves
parents when we are and they mustn’t be
curating food for on any wolf diet.
another species, It’s true that “dog”
we are bound to go as a species started
wrong unless supervised with the evolution of
by experts, or guided by wolves and subsequent
research. Many of us won’t domestication of their
know that dogs metabolize food progenies over millenniums has
seven times faster than humans, or led to the fur kids we know of today.

that a dog needs four times the protein, But then that’s just the first line of breeds
five times Vitamin D, twelve times calcium, – The Shepherds. It will bebinteresting for

and two and half times the Vitamin-A than many of our readers to know that there are so
that a regular human adult needs. In such a many breeds of dog from the line of mastiffs
situation, it’s not possible for a pet parent to too. So if wolves were the first line of ancestors,

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