This showed up on a raw diet list I read. I thought I'd pass it along in case some of you are interested.

Tom Lonsdale, author of Raw Meaty Bones:Promote health will be teaching an in depth course on carnivore health, feeding and the mechanisms that keep a carnivore healthy at Emory University Extension also called the 'Evening at Emory' series.

Classes will start in July and will be in the evening on Wed evening. There will also be a one day separate course, also through Emory on Saturday, July 12. This will be similar in nature to what
Dr. Lonsdale offered in Atlanta for SENR last summer.

The evening course is a wonderful opportunity to spend in depth time with Dr. Lonsdale learning in more detail, what makes a carnivore tick and how nutrition plays a role in keeping carnivores healthy.

Seating is limited and will be on a first come, first serve basis. Registration will begin in June and will be done through Emory. The web page for Evening at Emory is http://www.emory.edu/eve/. They
currently still have spring info posted but you can request a course catalog and sign up for email notification there.

Isn't a dog technically an omnivore?

Absolutely NOT an omnivore. Dogs and their relations are opportunistic carnivores, but carnivores all the same. There is some grey area in almost all of the carnivores. They will, at various times, for various reasons eat whatever they can get. Dogs certainly don't go looking for fruits and grains and veggies. . .

Bellow is the scientific classification of dogs, notice the "order" that dogs are in. That is their official scientific designation.

Kingdom: Animalia (all animals)

Phylum: Chordata (animals with notochords)

Subphylum: Vertebrata (animals with a skeleton of bone or cartilage)

Class: Mammalia (mammals)

Subclass: Eutheria (placental mammals)

Order: Carnivora (carnivores)

Family: Canidae (dog family)

Genus: Canis (dogs)

Species: familiaris (that silly looking wolfish animal taking up space in your house) lol

Pigs are natural omnivores, WE turn dogs into omnivores even though they are not.

Assuming you mean substances other than what predators neccesarily consume in the relatively gigantic G.I. tract of it's primary quarry; that is, herbivores.

Very interesting Van Camp.I was under the impression that omnivore applied because of the varied things that a dog will eat if given the opportunity and that they will eat the stomach contents of a fresh kill, and will eat grass, etc.

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Cats, lions, etc. are true carnivores. They also eat the stomach contents first. Don't confuse that with eating salads!

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Not to mention, some dogs will eat non food items, so what does that make them?

Poopavores?

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