Dogs adapted to starchy diets, new Nature article

[mitty]

Since we all love to agonize about dog food so much, I thought y'all might get a kick of this:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articl...o-Agriculture/

[hotel4dogs]

interesting article. Thanks!

[sixpacklabs]

Cool! This certainly supports the notion that dogs' ancestors were scavenging from human garbage piles. I've been giving my pups grief about their ancestry ever since I read the Coppingers' book. I think their ancestors' foraging habits probably also go a long way toward explaining why many dogs consider poop a food group.

Thanks for posting this!