hello champdogs just wanted to ask u guys is it o.k to feed dog 100% meat,rather than include vegetables etc,because i,m 100% meat guy,i eat nothing else but meat all the time,thats the diet i want to feed my dog,can u guys advise me on the side effects it might have on the dog.hopefully one day it will be chicken next day beef and so on,just want to know if its o.k,all the meat is going to be raw from the super maket.thanks in advance champdogs members.

Dogs and humans are not designed to eat 100% meat - both are omnivores (which can be deduced from their similar dental patterns) It's up to you if you want to make yourself sick by only eating meat (at the very least you need Vitamin C in your diet, which you can NOT get from meat), but you have a moral (and legal) responsibility to your dog - you can be prosecuted for feeding an innapropriate diet to any animal.

Whilst the dog is not an obligate carnivore like the cat, it is a carnivore and gets most of its dietary requirements from prey it has killed or found in the wild.  It can, unlike the cat, also get some goodness from other sources, (hence it has omnivorous habits) however the bulk of the canid's diet should be raw meat and bone.  Therefore if you would like to copy nature I am afraid you will need to ensure that your dog eats raw meaty bones; in other words chicken, turkey, duck etc carcases, wings, thighs, drumsticks, as well as ribs, tails, etc from pork, lamb, goat, beef etc etc.

The consequences of feeding JUST raw meat with no bones would be a very unhealthy dog as there is no calcium to speak of in meat which is required for healthy bones.  To build the correct skeletal structure the proper proportions of phosphorus and calcium need to be fed to dogs therefore they MUST eat bone.  If you would like to learn more there are plenty of raw feeding lists on the net if you type in BARF etc and there are plenty of books on the subject; please join/read before embarking on this in order that your dog does not suffer. 

Just because you don't like vegetable does not mean you should deny your pet them if he enjoys them; quite a few do but they need to be pulped for the dog to obtain any nutrients from them.

HTH

I thought it was important for the dog to eat pulped vegetables because if it were to make a kill then it would consume the stomach, and contents, which is where the veg side of the diet comes in?

I haven't phrased that very well, so I'm hoping you will know what I mean ;)

SOME canids eat SOME innards of SOME species :D  Generally they go for the intestines rather than the stomach.  Vegetable matter will make up no more than 10% of dietary intake of canids in the wild; most of the vitamins are in readily supply in freshly killed prey and they manufacture their own Vitamin C.

Some dogs like veggies some do not; (a bit like us) :D

Dogs, like us, are NOT designed to eat huge quantities of domestically produced processed grains.  If you look at a dogs gnashers they do not have teeth designed to masticate like cows, horses or us :D and they have jaws that move up and down and not side to side thereby demonstrating that what they need to eat is stuff that is ripped, torn, crunched etc :D

Once knew a body builder who ate nothing but meat and finished up in hospital with what we were told was protein poisoning, and that was causing air bubbles in the blood stream, very very dangerous.