One way a dog’s meat-and-greens prefering digestive system helps dogs not get salmonella poisoning is that dog digestion is so rapid. They are a ‘short gut’ animal, with a digestive system only three (3) times the length of their bodies, and the subsequent speed of digestion helps the meal and any parasites or bacteria move out faster. The concentration of hydrochloric acid is ten times the amount found in vegetarian-type animal digesteve systems.
Compared to human digestion, the time for bacteria to be exposed to their system is far less. Compare total dog digestion time, from the bowl to the baggie, in a dog with a very healthy diet at 2-4 hours total digestion time. Two to four hours. Add more carbohydrates to a dog’s diet and you can slow the digestion down to 6-8 hours. That’s in a diet with lots of carbs, like most kibble-only diets. Try to compare that with human digestion. Go on, I dare you. I don’t know what human digestive time is average, but I know it’s a lot longer than that..
That’s another good reason we get the salmonella bacteria reaction and dogs don’t.
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