The second link doesn't work for me. But the first I question for the reason that the vet is considering current commercial foods for cats and only offhandedly makes the the false comment concerning the dogs status.

Anyway, check out this link:

http://rawfed.com/myths/omnivores.html

Since the above is geared to the rawfood diet...

http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/canine...res-omnivores/

This is an article from an expert, don't think it's peer reviewed.

http://dogtorj.tripod.com/id51.html

I really enjoyed the article below, probably for the history. I guess there was never a wild pomeranium living in the forests of the past...

http://www.vetbalance.com/index.php?...-omnivore.html

This one talks about wild dogs, but I think we all agree that wild dogs, and perhaps even feral dogs, are practicing carnivores when left to their own devices.

http://wilddog.hypermart.net/Home/Wi...Site/index.htm

Here is another article by two doctors.

http://www.thewholedog.org/NHMVTheOm...ivoreQuest.pdf

And this article...

http://www.dogwalkersmelbourne.com.a...food-diet.html


I think what you're looking to do is supplant opportunistic with omnivore, and IMO this isn't the case. Just because they can does not mean that they should, nor does it mean that they are anything other than what nature designed them to be.

Got to shower, talk later.