Dogs are carnivores for the same reason anything else is a carnivore; they eat primarily meat.
Dogs eat meat
The carnivora order
Both are in carnivora. For detailed classification see this article on classification of carnivora in detail:
Order Carnivora .
Dogs belong to the order Carnivora in the animal kingdom.
Carnivora. I don't know why I keep answering these.
Dogs belong to the "Canidae Family", "Carnivora Order", and the "Mammalia Class".
A dog's class is Mammalia. A dog's order is Carnivora. Family, Genus, and Species: A dogs family is canidae. The genus is Canis and the species is Lupus.
Kingdom:AnimaliaPhylum:ChordataClass:MammaliaOrder:CarnivoraFamily:CanidaeGenus:CanisSpecies:C. lupusSubspecies:C. l. familiaris and 'C. l. dingo"- Copied straight from Wikipedia's "Dog" page.
The scientific name for the domestic dog is "Canus lupis familiaris." The domestic dog is a member of the Canidae family. It is part of the mammalian order Carnivora.
Planta Carnivora was created in 1980.
Hyposmocoma carnivora was created in 2011.