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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SockFiddler" data-source="post: 1515993" data-attributes="member: 412001">Seriously... these animals. They'll never get good jobs in the future if they're not prepared to apply themselves right now.Read once (no idea where, sorry), that if we fed our domesticated animals - especially dogs - what they'd typically eat in the wild, they'd "love" us less. Food is a major thing for making dogs think we're both worth being nice to and obeying, and (let's be honest) we like them a little bit hungry because they're trying to please us (as opposed to cats who just sleep...) and giving them treats is fun.So we decreased how much actual meat we give our beasts and pad it out with ash, bone meal, charcoal and other such nonsense and, in the article, it was presented as an everyone wins scenario: the dogs get lots of food, much of which they can't digest but, they get it often enough for it to not matter. We get to feed our pets twice a day which means they know we exist at least twice a day, and, of course, pet food manufacturers have loads and loads of customers.I find how we treat our domestic pets compared to how "working" animals - particularly sled dogs really interesting. These are dogs who work in extreme cold, who run for miles and miles after days, sometimes weeks, or inactivity and whose diets are almost exclusively raw meat. They're extraordinarily healthy, long-lived animals. They might not enjoy the trappings of petdom, but they're happy enough to pull a sled for 50km, with no carbs in sight!</blockquote>

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