The dog food raw diet plan includes vegetables as well
November 24th, 2009 | 
Author: When you start feeding your dog a diet based on the b.a.r.f plan, you will notice that there is a lot of dog food raw meat that is included in the diet plan. You need to consider all of your dog’s dietary concerns when you introduce a dog food raw diet meal plan into their lives, and there is more to it than just feeding raw meat.
You may not have thought about the role of vegetables in a dog food raw meat diet plan. Yes, vegetables! In order for your animal to have healthy pet food, you must provide the vegetables in a form that simulate the stomach contents of the prey that your dog would catch in the wild. At home you can replicate this form of vegetables by puréeing them in a blender or food processor.
It is important for natural animal nutrition to include raw vegetables as they are full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. In the dog food raw diet meal plan, you will need to choose a variety of vegetables, and because dogs cannot digest cellulose, you must break down the cell wall of vegetables before your dog can digest them and reap all of the benefits of a raw food diet.
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Dogs do not need vegetables. Their digestive systems are not able to break them down. I have fed raw for years and never add them and my dogs are wonderfully healthy. If they were meant to have them they would be able to digest them. No matter what you do they will get no nutritional benefit from eating raw vegetables.
To feed or not to feed raw vegetables to your dogs – that is the question. There seem to be two camps on this subject. I have tried both and have found that when I included raw vegetables (juiced of course), that my dog’s coat and skin were noticeably improved – the coat shone and the skin was smooth
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That is really interesting.
My daughter trains horses and has a barn full of the darlings. Of course she gets carrots delivered by the truckload to the barn to give as treats to the horses. She also has pair of corgis – doesn’t every horse owner?
I was visiting over Christmas and she was telling me how one of the corgis just loves the carrots! I asked her about veggies for dogs and her comment was that not only do the doggies eat the carrots but they also like other veggies…………
My thinking? Dogs know best!
Hey, just pondering if you might have any further details so I can find a bit more about it?
Thanks for reading Terrie. Do you have any specific questions that you would like answered?
Thanks for sharing your investigation into whether dogs eat veggies or not Valentina.
Yes, many dogs enjoy veggies… although not all. This is where it gets tricky though. Dog’s cannot break down the cell wall of those veggies, so they come out the way they went in!
The solution is to juice or finely puree the veggies to break down the cell wall so that the nutrients are easily absorbed. This treatment of veggies immitates that of partially digested stomach contents of prey that wolves and wild dogs would eat.
I’ve interviewed many people on this subject including vets and dog owners. Some of the most common comments are similar to yours, that the skin and coats are even better when dogs are fed veggies in addition to a variety of meats and bones.
Thanks for bringing this up Dave. I agree that wolves are carnivores and would shake out the stomach contents of large prey such as deer and elk. And for sure they wouldn’t be able to digest the sticks, branches and leaves that form part of large herbivore diets. However, grasses and root veggies would also be in the stomach contents and unless they are washed out would cling to the stomach and be consumed.
I certainly don’t encourage it, but when my dogs catch small prey such as squirrels, they don’t stop and shake out anything. As a matter of fact, they consume the whole thing tail and all. As the tails are usually cut off of the prey I feed, the veggies pulp serves as that missing fiber!