Animal Nutrition & Health
📋 What it is
Different animals need different diets — carnivore, herbivore, omnivore — to stay healthy.
🗣️ Coach says
Just like people, animals need the right food to be healthy — but the "right" food varies hugely. CARNIVORES (cats) need meat; HERBIVORES (rabbits, horses) need plants; OMNIVORES (dogs, pigs) eat both. Feeding an animal the wrong diet makes it sick, which is why knowing its natural diet matters.
🧠 Memory hook
Diet by type: carnivore (meat) · herbivore (plants) · omnivore (both). Wrong diet = sick animal.
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A cat is a "true carnivore" — it can’t make certain nutrients from plants at all, so unlike a dog, a cat genuinely needs meat to survive.
✅ Quick check: What’s the difference between a herbivore, carnivore and omnivore?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat, and omnivores eat both.
Diet type classifies animals by what they eat.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Sort 3 animals (cat, rabbit, pig) into carnivore, herbivore, omnivore by their natural diet.