[rawfeeding] Re: Info I would like feedback on...please?

"Anndrea" <anndreae@...> wrote:
> http://www.clubcanine.net/evolutionary-nutrition-dogs.shtml
>
> http://www.idir.net/~wolf2dog/wayne2.htm
>
> Could someone who may know more about DNA please clue me in to if
DNA
> has anything to do with digestive systems? Like having near matched
> DNA between a dog and a wolf mean their digestive systems work
> essentially the same?
*****
Yes.
The similarity of DNA assures us that dogs are a subspecies of wolf;
their digestive systems are the same because the two animals are
essentially the same, certainly as far as DNA goes.

>Also, if these sites are true and as
> informative as I thought they were, they would be good sites to send
> people to who are considering raw feeding and want to know more
about
> the similarities of wild dogs/wolves and domesticated dogs.
*****
The first site goes along quite reasonably but falters badly when it
comes to vegetation in the diet. The inclusion of vegetables in the
dog's diet is based on the erroneous assumption that wolves eat
stomach contents, which in fact they rarely do. And when they do,
the stomachs would be those of small prey, not the large ungulates.

Addtionally, the author's recommendation of books by Kymythy Schultze
and Ian Billinghurst is at odds with the research she presents
earlier. Schultze gets terminally bogged down with supplements;
Billinghurst starts out unclear on the dog's carnivorous nature and
goes downhill from there. There are other websites that can better
support the species appropriate diet a dog deserves.

The author of the material on the second website is very much the
source authority on DNA similarities of wolf and dog. You would not
go wrong citing his work.
Chris O

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