Sentences with phrase «scavenged for food sources»

High protein dog foods also mimic the diet your dog's ancestors would have had, when they scavenged for food sources that would have offered them the higher levels of protein they needed for energy to survive in the wild.

Others suspect dogs picked it up as they adapted to scavenging for food sources in human environments.

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It seems that the bears have been coming down from the foothills to scavenge for food after a wildfire affected diminished their food sources.

As noted above, cats primarily scavenge for food and eat scraps and refuse — whatever food is easiest and most abundant to find — and typically hunt only when other, easier food sources are scarce.

Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2

But you can drag out the inevitable for some time - eking out an isometric existence through shrewd scavenging, food sourcing, and first aid.