Hi Laura, GREAT explanation of why raw meat and raw meaty bones are safe for our canine friends but not at all suitable for us! Very thorough and very clear:)
All the beat, Susan V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Raw chicken isn't safe for humans, but dogs do not seem to have problems > > with it. > >This is true. Here is the explanation for it. > >Dogs are carnivores. They have teeth that are long, sharp, and pointed, >for >ripping apart tough raw animal flesh. None of their teeth are flat molar >teeth. Their jaws move up and down, not side to side. They drink water >with their tongue. Their tongues are rough and thin. They have sharp >claws >for ripping flesh. Their stomach is a round sack that secretes 10 to 20 >times as much acid as an herbivore. Their intestines are 3 times as long >as >their trunk. Their intestinal design facilitates rapid expulsion of fleshy >matter. Their liver contains enzymes to break down uric acid--at least 10 >to 15 times as much uric acid as an herbivore. Their bowels are smooth and >short for quick expulsion of waste matter. Their digestive system has the >capacity to expel large amounts of foreign cholesterol. Their blood, >salive >and urine is very acidic to help break down animal flesh. > >All this works together to produce a digestive system which is very capable >of handling raw meat without ill effects. > >The human digestive system is very different. All our teeth are flat, >especially the back molars. We have the dullest teeth of all primates. >Our >jaws move both up and down and side to side. The shape of our face clearly >indicates that humans have no ability to rip out entrails with their mouth. >We drink water by suction. Our tongue is smooth and thick. Our stomach is >round and complex which contains acide that is 10 to 20 times weaker than a >carnivore. Our intestines are at least 12 times as long as our trunk and is >like a sophisticated extractor of nutrients from our food--digestion takes >a >long time! Our liver has a low tolerance for uric acid. Our bowel walls >are puckered, convoluted, and full of deep pouches for the reconstitution >of >waste matter. Our digestive system has no capacity to expel foreign >cholesterol. Our saliva is alkaline which contains an enzyme specifically >designed to break down starchy carbohydrates. Our blood and urine is >alkaline. Our hand and feet contain individual digits with nails and >opposable thumbs--making it much harder for us to eat raw meat without >*tools*. > >Our digestive systems are not made to handle raw meat at all. Raw meat is >therefore quite dangerous to humans because of possible bacterial >contamination. In humans meat can take days to digest whereas in dogs it >only takes a few hours. In actuality it may be that the human digestive >system is not equipped to digest meat at all--cooked or raw--whereas the >dog >digestive system is perfectly equipped to eat almost nothing but raw meat. > >Laura Lang _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
