this is an honest question. By nature dogs love eating bones even without being taught. Why is that?
2006-07-26 08:31:25 · 11 answers · asked by archico01 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
Bones are a natural food for dogs. They are animals, in the wild, they would kill other animals, and eat their flesh. They may have had to come on carcases that were already mostly eaten, yielding to bigger stronger animals, and all that was left was on the bones. Anyway, they discovered their powerful jaws could crack the bones, and the inside had marrow.
They could save bones for later also, they could find them because their sense of smell. So bones make sense for dogs survival in the wild. The domestic dog still has that imprinted.
It seems odd in our world now, but it has it's reason in the Dog's history.
2006-07-26 08:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 9⤊ 2⤋
i don't know
maybe it is because wild dogs were bad hunters
so whenever they got food, they would eat it to the last morsel, thus eating bones
tell you the truth i have never seen a dog eat a REAL bone, cartoons like Snoopy make you think that way
examples: monkeys and bananas, elephants and peanuts, etc.
2006-07-26 08:35:21 · answer #2 · answered by austin_penguin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nature made canines that way, yet people who keep canines as pets, gadget the form to maintain them far off from such risky stuff - like rooster bones which splinter very honestly & reason inner harm to the unfavourable creature, who regrettably does not understand the possibility in contact, which may even instruct deadly for the unfavourable element. it is in many cases the case with domesticated canines, who, in comparison to strays, have not got the earnings of bitter journey.
2016-12-10 16:09:37 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They love chewing i guess it was because people gave them the bones that were left from the meat
2006-07-26 08:46:11 · answer #4 · answered by Dalia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For their inherent chewing impulses, and also to get the flavor from the bone and marrow.
2006-07-26 08:36:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the marrow inside
2006-07-26 08:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
carnivores love bones.
2006-07-26 08:34:33 · answer #7 · answered by gg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oral fixation. my dog gets bored, she chews a bone.
2006-07-26 08:45:54 · answer #8 · answered by Elizabeth K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who r u kidding. . .dogs will eat anything. THEY LOVE FOOD!!!!!!!!!example: they even eat grass and sticks.
2006-07-26 08:47:12 · answer #9 · answered by rockergrl202 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they like to constantly chew things. also their ancestors were carnivors.
2006-07-26 08:40:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋