Respectfully disagree - I dont think we should necessarily encourage people to feed their cats & dogs a vegan diet. (And ive been a vegetarian since I was 3, just to give perspective). The species-appropriate diet for cats & dogs is what they would eat if there were no human intervention.... what would they eat in the wild? For cats, its mostly going to consist of meat-based protein. The veggies come from whatever their prey already had in their stomach. See catinfo.org - which focuses more on avoiding dry food rather than meat vs veggies, but it does discuss it all.
respect BTW for the early start, I ate meat for 50 years, yuk, it makes me feel really nauseous when I think about it.
I love my cats and would do anything for them, except buy into the despicable animal ag industry. Pampering one animal at the expense of thousands of others does not add up for me.
I know it is not ideal, but it is possible; my cats ask for and seem to enjoy (and are shiny and healthy) the food I give them https://www.veggiepets.com and if they want, they are still capable of supplementing with (much fresher) raw meat from free living mice and birds. So be it.
The whole situation of having highly adapted and skilled killers dependent on me to kill their food for them is absurd. Well actually they are not dependent on me, they would survive, but they pretend to be for an easy life. And otherwise they would not be in my life at all, and I wouldn't have had that joy.
I also became vegan when I got them, from observing their completely different personalities and the beautiful flesh and blood realness of them.
I was in a pickle about this for a while, but this is how I have made my peace.
I think my point was that nothing anyone says will change my mind, so I've also given up trying to change other people.
I thought that too about the Western price foundation.
so glad to hear you say that
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Respectfully disagree - I dont think we should necessarily encourage people to feed their cats & dogs a vegan diet. (And ive been a vegetarian since I was 3, just to give perspective). The species-appropriate diet for cats & dogs is what they would eat if there were no human intervention.... what would they eat in the wild? For cats, its mostly going to consist of meat-based protein. The veggies come from whatever their prey already had in their stomach. See catinfo.org - which focuses more on avoiding dry food rather than meat vs veggies, but it does discuss it all.
Hiya Veggie QE,
respect BTW for the early start, I ate meat for 50 years, yuk, it makes me feel really nauseous when I think about it.
I love my cats and would do anything for them, except buy into the despicable animal ag industry. Pampering one animal at the expense of thousands of others does not add up for me.
I know it is not ideal, but it is possible; my cats ask for and seem to enjoy (and are shiny and healthy) the food I give them https://www.veggiepets.com and if they want, they are still capable of supplementing with (much fresher) raw meat from free living mice and birds. So be it.
The whole situation of having highly adapted and skilled killers dependent on me to kill their food for them is absurd. Well actually they are not dependent on me, they would survive, but they pretend to be for an easy life. And otherwise they would not be in my life at all, and I wouldn't have had that joy.
I also became vegan when I got them, from observing their completely different personalities and the beautiful flesh and blood realness of them.
I was in a pickle about this for a while, but this is how I have made my peace.
I think my point was that nothing anyone says will change my mind, so I've also given up trying to change other people.
Jo🐒