Are you sure?
My Siberian Husky used to run the intestines of her prey (mostly
muskrats) through her teeth. It looked like she was carefully pulling
them out - and she was - except she was squeezing out the contents into
her mouth as she went, and THEN discarding the intestines.
I know for sure that small wild cats do that - They run the intestines
through their teeth to get out the contents - leaving the actual
intestines uneaten unless they are starving. Alec Sliwa of World
Wildlife Foundation (Germany) confirmed that for me before I printed my
article on African Black-footed cats (F nigripe) about ten years ago in
PawPrint. Alec lived with the little cats in the Kalahari desert for
seven years in order to study them up close!
Whatever dogs do or do not do with prey intestines these days - they DO
need the fermentable aspects of grain along with the gut bacteria - and
prey intestines would be a natural source of these. That would provide
HUGE quantities of active bacteria - whereas the way we feed carnivores
only provides a minimum - and research shows that providing the
substrate (rice bran, beet fiber for example being best) is more
important than providing the bacteria
It's only a side effect that carnivores digest some grain as a result -
but it is a fact that dogs can extract more from grain than from fruit
and veg, nutritionally speaking.
(Fruit and veg are BIG no-nos for cats)
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."