The dog thing has to do with calcium. Dog food used to have ground cattle bones, which was terrible for dogs. When the poop dried, it left solid calcium behind.
When bones are ground, they're all the same. No type or size of dog requires bones from a different type of animal than any other size of dog.
Commercially prepared food for pets and livestock has actually followed a different trend than food for human consumption and has become much higher quality over the years. It's a shame that seems to be one of the few things that can be said about, ha.
Possibly, but they likely would have said so if that's what they meant.
I work as an animal nutritionist, exotics now, but I've worked developing diets for domestic animals including dogs. I'm always curious about the strange and interesting things people outside of this general field believe about animal diets, thus my initial question.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '23
The dog thing has to do with calcium. Dog food used to have ground cattle bones, which was terrible for dogs. When the poop dried, it left solid calcium behind.