Information on Dogs Eating Meat
A hunting instructor from the Middle East sent me and interesting letter about carnivorous diets. It honestly coincided with the discovery that I had made that a diet based on meat is the only thing that is convenient for carnivorous animals, and he added that his hunting dogs were fed that way. Nevertheless, he thought that during the hottest season of the year, meat wasn't recommendable. His dogs received then a light diet, based on cereals, dairy products and similar things.
I accept his observations; I very well understand that, in extremely hot climates, where dogs are used for hard and painful labor, there are periods in which they are under a "heavy" diet followed by long periods of rest and in which they are submitted to a "pseudo fast". My friend's dogs received a light diet, based on cereals, whereas sleigh dogs up in the Arctic receive very little food during the whole winter season. For example, when they finish their work and they're unhooked from the harnesses, they have to basically survive on the diet based on raw fish, which intrinsically, they have to find for themselves.
Meat is a very concentrated food, because when a herbivore has good health, its meat is made up of nutritious substances found in vegetables, which it has previously fed on, for example, green fodder, whole wheat cereals, roots, found in water, silage (fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation, e.g. in a silo). These kinds of food are given to cows following the method of natural breeding for cattle, unlike the artificial straw that is normally given to cattle. The straw is usually treated with acids, which originate a very greasy, unhealthy and sickening meat - they sometimes even give them sawdust!
Raw meat contains the cellulose found in vegetable nourishment which the dog digests with difficulty and in very limited quantities in its raw state. However, when transformed by the digestion of a herbivore into proteins, the dog can digest it as a muscle of easy assimilation. This carnivorous diet ensures a good intake of vitamins and minerals, and is completely natural for dogs, although for humans it is unnatural; we do not have the digestive system of a carnivore, which is why a diet based on meat, due to its natural proneness to get rotten, in combination with the non-carnivorous skeleton structure of the human being (a long intestine and digestive system) causes an overabundance of urine with the consequent hardening of the arteries and human joints, which induces the unnatural beginning of premature aging.
Carnivorous animals assimilate what they eat in about eight hours, whereas in the case of a human being, in general, it takes about 48 hours for the food to go down the 9 1/2 meters of intestines. But I don't have enough time to delve into the vast topic about human diets as I am not writing about humans; I'm writing about dogs. But I must add that, as humans, we can not (luckily) eat meat in its raw state, and we have to cook all carnivorous food; however, when we cook the meat, most of the vital properties of the food are lost; cooking destroys the vitamin content as well as a very valuable and immeasurable cosmic strengths that are accumulated in the meat of herbivorous animals due to their vegetarian diet.
