Is A Gluten-Free Or Grain-Free Diet Healthier For Dogs?
Is a gluten-free or a grain-free diet healthier for dogs? It seems reasonable to suspect that dogs would be healthier if they ate a natural diet, close to what their canine ancestors ate. Dogs have canine teeth (to assist with consuming meat), historically preferred meat and likely their ancestors ingested very little grains. Some digested grains might have been ingested from the stomachs and bowels of the herbivores they ate. These grains would have been altered and broken down by the digestion process in the herbivore and are therefore different than the undigested grains currently added to dog food. The digested grains may have been tolerated better by dogs historically or perhaps they still did react to the digested grains to some degree.
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