Dogs; do they need veggies?

[Cliffdog]

In my experience with my PWD, if I do not give cooked and purred veggies (about 30% of her daily food) then she will spend much of the day outside grazing frantically, pulling up the grass with roots, eat the entire thing and then slurp up the dirt below. Add in the veggies, the frantic grazing stops. She obviously needs something the veggies supply.
Plus all 3 of my dogs love 'em. <shrugs> Right or wrong, they get veggies.

How odd! I've never heard of such a thing. Well, it's a good owner who supplies the needs of his or her pets, no matter how weird. :)

[blue]

On my place the dogs slurp up goat and rabbit poo like candy, if I let them, and mine my rubber boots when I come in, if I let them. So, my question would be; do they need the predigested vegetables from the herbivors, do they need the probiotics in the dirt, or are they programed to cover the trail of an animal they are hunting?

[Mia]

No dogs don't need them one bit.

The way I see it...dogs are opportunistic carnivores. When meat is available they eat it up like nobody's business, but in times of famine they will eat anything to survive. Which is why dogs produce their own taurine and are able to survive off of a herbivorous diet. Its evolutionarily advantageous.

So the way I see it, if I'm able to provide my dogs what they would eat in times of plenty...IE meat I will. Why provide a diet that consists of what dogs would eat in times of famine???

I totally agree :)