Contrary to the popular belief, wolves do not eat the contents of the large prey's stomachs. And dogs are subspecies of wolves.
According to Dr. David Mech who spent several decades studying wolves and is world authority on them, they open the stomach, shake the contents out and eat just the stomach itself. I read all the books by Dr. Mech and he gave several accounts how they eat their prey. I don't know where that notion of eating the stomach contents came from but certainly not from Dr. Mech. Wolves also do not eat small rodents unless starving, but that would be the only instance that they would eat a stomach contents. Barbara The page at http://dogsobediencetraining.com/info/learn_dog_wiki.htm makes a good point. Although canines are carnivores, in the wild they get a good bit of vegetable matter because they would eat the contents of the stomach of their prey. If fed only meat, then they are not getting this which would normally been a natural part of their diet. Thus to duplicate what they would have gotten in the wild, they should also be fed prechewed vegetable matter which is similar to what their prey would have normally eaten. Marshall
