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Originally Posted by Rainmaker
It's important to remember that dogs are meat-eaters by design. They're meant to catch, kill and eat other animals as prey and in the wild this makes up the vast majority of their diet.
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It's also worth remembering that whilst wild canids are meat-eaters by design, the domestic dog
Canis familiaris has evolved some differences. It seems to have adapted to living near humans off their rubbish and later in domestication by developing a longer gut in proportion to its size than wolves. This enables it to properly digest other foods they would have gained access to by living alongside humans, such as left-over cooked cereals and cooked meats. They're omnivores, like humans.