Eating the Catch

Wolves will gorge if they have gone hungry for several days, or even an entire week, they do not overeat. Wolves' ingestion of food is regulated by the liver, which stores excess glucose as glycogen, and by the hunger and satiery centres in the brain. When the liver is stopped up with glycogen, a wolf's satiery centre is activated and it will not eat. After going hungry for a time, the liver's supply of glycogen is realeased into the blood as glucose. When the supply is depleted the hunger centre is activated.

The wolf's digestive system is so strong that it usually breaks down every bit of protein that has benn eaten. As a result, wolf scat (stool) contain very little fecal matter. The stool, which may be an inch in diameter and three or four inches long, is usually gray or white and contains chips of bone or fur compacted and held together by mucus. Its interior is yellowish and granular and, even in a fresh dropping, hardly andy odor reaches the human nose.

The wolf's diet consists mostly of muscle meat and fatty tissue from various animals. Heart, lung, liver, and other internal organs are eaten. Bones are crushed to get at the marrow, and bone fragments are eaten as well. The only part that the wolves will not eat is the stomach and its contents.
Red Wolves, commonly consumes a higher propartion of vegetable matter and subsists on smaller game. All wolves eat grass, possibly to scour the digestive tract and remove worms. However, the grass itself is never digested. Wolves may eat up to one-fifth of their body weight at one time. On average however, wolves consume five to ten punds of meat every day. They wash it down with large quantities of water. The water prevents uremic poisoning from the high production of urea associated with a meat diet.
Has you have read wolves can go a long time without food, up to two weeks. When food is plentiful wolves will eat more to caught up on the days when they had no food. A Wolves hunting schedule is based on the seasons.