Depending on where they live, the season, the size of the pack, the available prey and other factors, they may eat as infrequently as every second or third day or even longer without suffering any ill effect. What dogs don’t eat in the wildĪlmost as important as what dogs eat in the wild is what they don’t eat.įor starters (as it were), they don’t necessarily eat every day. Not wanting to dwell on an unpleasant subject, but if you have a dog that is on a processed food diet he or she may be eating faeces in order to try to stay healthy (although if a dog is eating canine or feline faeces it will probably be because they contain the undigested flavourings used to make dry dog food palatable). They are an excellent source of protein, essential fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes and fibre. With regard to the faeces, incidentally, these contain the dead and living bodies of millions upon billions of bacteria.
Things like vomit, faeces and decaying flesh.’ As Ian Billinghurst, a leading proponent of natural feeding, has pointed out, dogs receive ‘valuable nutrients from materials that we humans find totally repugnant. They eat the leftovers from every animal that is killed or dies. Some will dig up vegetables and eat grasses and herbs. Wild dogs will search for rotten fruit and will eat the semi-digested contents of their prey’s stomach. Unlike cats, dogs aren’t obligate carnivores.
Either way, they eat everything – the internal organs, the meat, the bones… the lot. This could be small animals – mice, voles, rabbits, birds, insects and so forth – or it could be larger prey caught with the help of a pack. What dogs eat in the wildĭogs are carnivores and the primary component of their diet is prey. In the case of dogs there is quite a lot of variety in their natural diet. What dogs eat (and don’t eat) in the wildĮvery species should eat a biologically appropriate diet, in other words what they would eat in the wild or as close to what they would eat in the wild as is feasible.
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