Dogs picked up the ability to use some starches for nutrition around the time humans started to farm. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/how-farming-changed

Dogs picked up the ability to use some starches for nutrition around the time humans started to farm. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/how-farming-changed-dog http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/how-farming-changed-d... Wolves (from which we domesticated dogs) have only a tiny ability to digest starches. Dogs that were bred in mostly hunting communities like the Siberian Husky do not have the ability to digest starches well, same as wolves.