|What to feed and how to feed are common questions that often
dog the novice dog lovers. A comment oft repeated by them when
advised to feed meat to their eight week old pooch is, ‘We are
vegetarians, and how can we feed meat to our dog!’ Some even say
that meat is not supposed to enter their house and they cannot
therefore allow their dog to have meat. Poor dog he is oblivious
of all these sentiments and food habits of strict vegetarians.
He lives on whatever he is fed, whether he thrives or not is not
the concern of the ignorant owner. Nature has made him such that
his staple food is meat. If a dog did not require meat, why
would nature provide him with those ‘fang like teeth?’ Certainly
they are not meant to graze grass like a horse or to eat
vegetables like us. Not only teeth, even the digestive system of
dogs is not meant to digest chunks of vegetable matter. The
length of small intestine of dogs is about two and half times
the length of the dog. Therefore a 24 inches long dog will have
a 60 inch long sm