The differences are many. Dogs are carnivores, not omnivores. Only pet food companies, and some vets (who are trained by the pet food companies at vet school!) will tell you otherwise. The entire scientific community, and anyone with even basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology, will tell you that dogs are clearly carnivores.

As such they are designed to eat and digest raw skin, meat, bone and offal. Not cooked meat, not grains, not fruit, veg, herbs, nuts or seeds. It's that simple.

Cooking foods alters the amino acids and fats quite significantly. Think of a hamburger. It starts out as a nice red/pink mass with white marbled fat. Once you cook it the texture and colour change dramatically, and the once 'pure' white fat is now oily GREASE. Big difference.

That's all very well if you're an omnivore, though still debatable as scientists today will happily attribute a majority of human health complaints and diseases to a cooked diet, especially a processed one. For a carnivore, it's disastrous!

Kendal, although you feed raw and therefore clearly know the benefits (i.e. I'm not 'telling you off' lol), I just wanted to point out that dogs are scavengers only in the sense they will happily consume a carcass if they find it - as opposed to only eating what they kill. Wild dogs and wolves do NOT eat grain, fruits or vegetables in any real quantity. They might pick on the odd fruit as they pass it once a year, but they certainly don't go scavenging in fruit orchards and wheat fields in preference to a kill.

Physiologically and energetically, making a hunt and kill is incredibly demanding, in terms of calorific cost as well as having a potential for harm (injury or death at the hands of big prey). Do people honestly think they would hunt such dangerous animals, at such risk, if they were also adapted and designed to munch helpless berries and grains?

Domestic dogs are nothing more than visually (NOT internally) altered Grey Wolves. This is conclusively proven scientifically (I've posted the paper up a few times here now), and the fact remains that Grey Wolves, and dogs, are carnivores with no adaptation for cooked foods or grains and vegetable matter. In fact all prevailing evidence is that feeding a carnivore such as a dog (or cat, or ferret) on cooked foods, especially those containing grains and vegetable matter, is a recipe for disease, pain and early death.