Originally Posted by sawbuck
If this were true, why haven't they found ancient dog food factories?

Of course I know you're joking, as the very notion of commercial dog food is only about a hundred years old. Prior to that, dogs just ate scraps from butchers (mainly bones), wild game processing scraps, and what was left of what folks prepared for themselves to eat (table and kitchen scraps), supplemented by whatever the dogs could catch in the yard.