It is true that wild dogs receive most of their nutrition from animal sources, but they will occasionally eat plant foods if meat is not available — they also consume some plant foods in the stomach
contents of their prey.
In the wild, cats eat the stomach
contents of their prey, and feline prey animals are usually plant - eaters.
The type of prey wolves tend to hunt are generally herbivores so, in consuming the stomach
contents of their prey, wolves do end up eating some plant material.
In fact, in the wild, wolves and wild dogs often eat the stomach
contents of their prey first, which usually contains grains and plant matter.
Dogs and cats evolved killing prey, including herbivores (or plant - eating animals), and eating the stomach
contents of their prey.
In the wild the only time they eat grains or starches is when they eat the stomach
contents of the prey they have caught.
An interesting aside is that, while cats in the wild only eat prey, they get their grains and vegetables by eating
the contents of their prey's stomach.
In the wild, the only plant material cats eat comes from the stomach
contents of their prey and it has already been partially digested.
Some experts believe that a dog's taste for grass goes back to the days when a wild canid would eat the stomach
contents of its prey (usually plants like grass and leaves).
Wild dogs (wolves) are not strictly carnivores in the way that cats are — they consume a limited amount of plant material in the stomach
contents of their prey and they will sometimes eat plants in the wild if meat is not available.
Again, the goal is to mimic the pre-digested stomach
contents of the prey animals your pet would eat in the wild.
In the wild, the intestinal
contents of the prey are seeds, which are high fat and protein, not our modern grains which are high carbohydrate.
Not exact matches
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These single - celled creatures perforate the walls
of their
prey and reach inside to consume its cell
contents.
«There is already evidence from fossilized stomach
contents that ancient sharks like Orthacanthus
preyed on amphibians and other fish, but this is the first evidence that these sharks also ate the young
of their own species.»
Wild wolves do hunt and eat animal
prey, but they consume almost all parts
of the animal, including its stomach
contents.
In consuming their
prey, they also consume the
contents of its stomach which is primarily comprised
of plant materials.
Dogs (Wolves) do not eat dry food in the wild, other than incidental intake as they are eating the stomach
contents or meat
of prey they have just killed.
Vegetable matter would be obtained mostly from the partially digested stomach
contents of such
prey.
Wild or feral dogs, and dogs who hunt, often ingest the intestines
of their
prey along with the stomach
contents — including plant material.
The produce found in your cat's food is placed there to mimic the stomach
contents of herbivorous
prey.
In fact, most «wild» cats would only eat plants in the form
of stomach
contents of smaller
prey they'd eat whole.
They would eat the bodies and bones
of their
prey, which often included the
contents of their stomach.
Where today we feed our dog's scientifically balanced kibble, it used to be that dogs would eat whole
prey items, meat, bones, organs and the
contents of their stomachs.
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