Dog Nutrition

All Canis are carnivores. An integral part of their diet is also a food of plant origin, because it contains fiber, which is necessary for good digestion and affects the intestinal peristalsis.

In terms of development, the need for the presence of fiber in the diet was developed in feral dogs and their predecessors relatives because they caught herbivores serve as a complete diet is filled viscera plant residues. Another part of the analogy of food are also the bones, which are an essential source of calcium, and skin. Ration of wild psovitych sele therefore also contains protein from the muscle meat and sugars, fiber, vitamins, minerals and fats.

Digestive system dog

Digestive tube dog begins oral cavity - mouth. Dog eat this way, with the assistance of the front teeth. Canines and incisors separated morsels that no more biting tongue moves through the pharynx into the esophagus and swallowed. Taste buds on the surface of language reveals a dangerous dog or improper diet.In the stomach, which can have content for large dogs up to 9 liters, the digestion of food. Much of this body size is related to the life of wolves and wild dogs: the pack catch prey to devour and as soon as possible after returning to the juvenile animals digestive food vyvrhnou. Emptying the stomach begins half an hour to an hour after the feed. Stomach is completely emptied from 6 to 8 hours after the feed.

Another part of the digestive system consists of small intestine, the longest part of the digestive tube dog, which measured according to the breed and size dog from two to six meters. It consists of the duodenum, and lacniku ilea. Near the duodenum is important in the digestive - pancreas, which split the various components of food. Another very important for the spending authority is the gall bladder, which helps digestion of fats.Small intestine becomes much less colon (about half a meter), in which the particular thickening faeces. The last section is a digestive tube bearing rectum sphincter.

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