[rawfeeding] Re: If I really fed them like they eat in the wild....

"missy7880529" <toddashaffer@...> wrote:>
> Dogs eat in packs, and the alpha dog eats first, then on down the
line
> to the least powerful of the pack. The alpha would eat the best
first:
> organs, tastiest meat, then what's left over would go down the
line.
> The last dogs would get the leanest bones.
*****
Sounds good but reality isn't quite so cut and dried. Research shows
us that relative status is flexible and the alpha during the chase
may not be the alpha during the eating which may not be the alpha
when the pack is at rest.

The only wolf likely to consistently get the short end of the stick
might be a male that should be getting out anyway...or a sick wolf
that provides no value to the pack. Otherwise, there's usually
enough to go around; if not during one kill then at the next or the
one after that.

Wolves are cooperative and supportive. It does a pack no good for a
few to thrive and the rest merely get by.

So my conclusion is it really doesn't
> matter that much exactly what we feed them, does it? Wouldn't it
be
> like that in the wild? Some days they's get the best, some days
they'd
> get what ever's left?
*****
Not sure how your conclusion comes from your premise, but IMO your
conclusion is correct--sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the
bear gets you.

So maybe
> translating that to today's world, I could feed my dog whatever raw
> meat and bones are available and the best price at the time.
*****
Yes, you are right. The only problem I have with feeding completely
by market availability is the market one chooses to shop at. Since I
have, at least theoretically, the ability to feed my dog optimal
nutrition, why would should I settle for less than optimal as a
result of having limited my hunting ground?

Even wolves, when pickin's are slim, move on. They don't hang around
waiting for the next score to wander in--they go looking.
Chris O

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