Can dogs eat dead animals

Answer 1

It depends on if it was fresh or not. If the animal was fresh (i.e. not rotten) then there is nothing to worry about as dogs are carnivores and are designed to eat meat however if it is rotten meat then you need to keep an eye on him/her

Answer 2

Yes a dog would eat a dead person. To a dog it is no different than any dead animal they might find. This is a gruesome story but I had a friend who committed suicide with a shotgun to his head in the upstairs of his home and parts of his skull were found downstairs in different rooms... The dog had carried them downstairs. (body was not discovered for 24 hours) To a dog its just a natural thing...

Answer 3

Not if it has anything else to eat.

A wolf will eat a dead dog and so will a coyote. Will a wolf eat a dead wolf? Will a coyote eat a dead coyote? Mostly the answer is no, but they may eat another of their kind more so if it is frozen or mixed with another animals blood.

Even if you boil and cook a dead dog i have never seen a dog eat another dead dog. I have found that dogs will relieve themselves on the carcass of other dead dogs and most dogs will roll in the remains of the dead dog, but i have never seen a dog eat a dead dog. Also, i have never been around starving dogs.

Answer 4

they have a thing in there throat that makes it to eat dead things. First of all, it's their throats. And The more logical answer is their immune system is most likely better than a human's and therefore can handle the various dangerous bacteria on a dead animal.

Answer 5

In general, no - whatever killed the dead dog could infect and kill the living dog. Also, dead things in general have a number of bacteria and fungi growing in them breaking down the organs and tissues - the living dog really shouldn't be exposed to them.

Answer 6

Not safely. While dogs like doing this sort of thing, you need to prevent it as best you can, and for exactly the same reasons you don't eat roadkill: it can get you Very sick.