Jed Mutone: I have had several dogs and I have known them to be omnivourous. In fact 2 of my dogs loved Tomatoes and often would eat them right out of my garden they even passed up meat a few times to get to my cucumber's The dog I have right now likes Grapes..
Alexis Reyer: Yes - have you looked at the digestive tract of a dog or a cat for that matter? Much shorter than ours or a herbivore; that is the mark of a carnivore. I'm getting into the argument but at least call them what they are. If they were omnivores they would be classified as such. PP, Love, Fallon - Fancy see you guys here lol
Son Ahlers: i feed my dogs regular pet food, one wet , one dry. but my older one loves tofu, the hard, white parts of lettuce, broccoli, and bananas. french fries are a must too for her. lol.
Willis Liburd: I feed my cat regular kibble,but I tend to opt for the ones with more veggies like Purina Naturals Plus.
Luther Plagmann: I wouldn't force my cat to eat a! nything unnatural. Feed it what a normal cat would eat. It is the responsibility of humans to go vegan under their own consent, but to force this diet upon another animal is an unnecessary step.
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Bud Espenshade: I used to have a cat, and I fed her normal cat food, but that was only because she was an adult cat when I adopted her, and her previous owners had made her eat only cat food -not even plain meat or anything-, and she wouldn't recognize anything else as food.If I had a cat now, I would feed him/her vegan cat food, which is good too... just google it, and you'll see...I'll quote you something too:Feeding your animal friend: can you feed your cat or dog a vegetarian/vegan diet?Both cats and dogs can be fed a vegetarian diet, although neither is a vegan by nature: dogs are omnivores, and cats are carnivores. While both dogs and cats belong to the order carnivora, this doesn’t mean a lot, since, as we mentioned earlier, so does the Giant Pa! nda Bear, practically 100% vegan.By nature cats and dogs would! n’t eat anything like what is commonly found in a can of pet food either. Special diets must be provided for cats, as they require an amino acid called taurine, found in animal tissue.Synthetic taurine has been developed, and is used in commercial (non vegetarian) cat foods. Vegetarian cats should be fed taurine as a supplement. Taurine deficiency can result in blindness and even death. Cats also require pre-formed vitamin A and arachidonic acid.All vegan cat foods contain these essential elements.Not only is it POSSIBLE to feed most cats and dogs a non-meat diet, it is also DESIRABLE. Buying “normal†pet food is supporting the same meat industry with its attendant cruelty, exploitation, waste, and environmental damage that veganism is so opposed to.Why should then horses/cows/chickens/ducks have to suffer and die every year just to support your pet cat/dog?This is not a matter of “imposing your beliefs†on your pets (or companion animals, or whatever you call the! m) since you are not forcing them to eat it and you are not stopping them eating local wildlife on their wanderings round the neighborhood.Also animals don’t have morals or beliefs. They do whatever is necessary to survive, with no preference one way or the other about the impact on anything else. We however can make moral/ethical decisions â€" like the decision to go vegan.In the wild, surviving may mean “kill something or else starve to death,†but if your animal is being “fed†anyway, this becomes unnecessary. It is also no more unnatural for a pet cat/dog to be eating vegan food than any other food.Firstly, the domesticated cat/dog bears little resemblance to its wild cousins so we’re already in an artificial situation.Secondly, the whole act of feeding your pet from a can (as opposed to letting it find food for itself) is unnatural, so you might as well make the best of it.Thirdly, the actual contents of the tins of commercial pet food bear no resemblance t! o what a cat/dog would eat in the wild anyway…Can you imagine your da! rling kitty killing horses and cows and going deep sea fishing for tuna?From http://terranovauk.blog.com/being-vegan/...Show more
Hobert Dula: If it's a 300 pound canary- Anything it wants. Pit bulls get lots of meat. Dogs are carinverous. Vegans would argue that people are not. But they will feed their dogs meat because a dog needs it to survive. Pets are pets and people are people.
Willa Holte: 1. Real vegans don't own cats. It's not vegan to own an animal, to restrain them from their natural life.2. Most fake vegans who do own cats feed them commercial cat foods....that contain meat. Cats are true carnivores and require taurine which is found naturally in meat....but not in any plant. Kinda like Vitamin B12 for humans. Those vegans make the same excuses as they do about using birth control tested on animals, buying grains and veggies that cause the deaths of animals in the fields, etc.3. Some vegans can afford the fancy, expensive non-meat cat foods that supp! osedly have taurine added. Most can't afford it or don't bother. And, of course, some cats have suffered greatly from the lack of taurine in those expensive foods or their own inability to absorb the fake taurine. Some have even died. But their vegan owners can still call themselves vegan. http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/......Show more
Ronny Dorge: I, personally, feed my cats meat. They're natural carnivores and can't thrive on a vegan diet... Plus they're family pets, so it's not even my decision."Vegans don't "own" pets, because they realize that pet ownership is just exercised human domination of animals. They believe that spaying and neutering is nothing more than horrendous sexual mutilations guised as "compassion," guided by a desire for population control, though ironic enough the Earth's most overpopulated species being the human."Uhh, no. While it's true that I wouldn't say I "own" pets, spaying and neutering is VERY necessary. And yes, ! humans are incredibly overpopulated, which is why I'm not having childr! en....Show more
Iris Shawcroft: OMG! You can't feed a cat a vegetarian diet. You will kill it! CATS NEED MEAT!!!! Who cares if you or whoever is a vegetarian. Cats cannot be. A dog could be but they want meat. It is just cruel to put your beliefs on another creature like that. If everyone went veggie the world couldn't handle it. Not enough room to grow so many crops. More animal habitat would be destroyed.We need meat eaters. It's how the world works but then I guess some people were just born into the wrong world.Feed your dogs BARF or raw food etc just give them some meat PUULEEESE. They will be happier.rayven: Did I say that you feed your cat veggies? NOOOOOOO! You are the one that posted a question about what do vegetarians feed their dogs or cats. What do you think people are going to think? I am just stating the obvious. Cats cannot be vegetarians!!!!!!!!!!! Duh. Don't freak out.
Rhett Kaines: yes there is.
Boris Hadsall: Vegan Food as for example:! Bramble, a 27-year-old border collie whose vegan diet of rice, lentils, and organic vegetables earned her consideration by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest living dog in 2002. “27-Year-Old Vegan Collie Could Be World’s Oldest Living Dog,†Ananova, 29 Aug. 2002.Vegetarian "companion animal" information:http://www.helpinganimals.com/animalsHome_gi_vegAn...Though the real answer is NOTHINGVegans don't "own" pets, because they realize that pet ownership is just exercised human domination of animals. They believe that spaying and neutering is nothing more than horrendous sexual mutilations guised as "compassion," guided by a desire for population control, though ironic enough the Earth's most overpopulated species being the human....Show more
Nilda Bafia: I have many cats and I am vegan, but my cats are not. I would not impose a vegan diet on my cat unless I could find one that would meet my cats' nutritional needs...and haven't seen evide! nce of an appropriate one yet.@ Deer Hunter - you DARE to use the term ! "innocent animal".... you are pathetic! :P
Gregg Hagge: Most vegans who have cats actually feed their cats meat-based cat food.
Providencia Jalbert: I think they feed them to the lions. I was at the zoo and saw a skinny, pale gal with a bag of cats tossing them into the lion's pen. I figured she was vegan, protecting mice everywhere.
Sol Bayn: Some fanatic vegans also choose to push their views on their own carnivorous cats. Ridiculous isn't it?These vegans made personal choice to become vegans, but that's not enough. They feel the need to push this on a helpless animal whose natural diet is meat.EDITI didn't use the term "innocent animal" I used the term "helpless animal" I will leave the name calling to you. It shows your intelligence, or lack of....Show more
Melina Minneweather: I feed my cats a high quality commercial food. I am aware that cats(unlike humans) are obligate carnivore and must have meat in their diet. While I would prefer to keep ! animals that are vegan by default, sometimes life does not accommodate it.My cats are rescues from my backyard. For one reason or another their mother dropped them off at 2 weeks old and never came back. Numerous calls to shelters, rescues, etc was met with no help. Animal control suggested to leave them to die in the backyard(I was told to pretend they were raccoons, no one saves orphaned raccoons apparently, and they would be picked up when they died). They have tested positive for FIV, an autoimmune disease. They must be fed a high quality meat based diet for health. They are considered basically unadoptable b/c of this illness. They will require numerous vet visits to keep an eye on their health, and will die early, most likely from complications of the disease....Show more
Marna Liddie: Daisy your comment is extremely stupid..Being Vegan is not about being perfect is about causing less harm as possible to the animals..Some things we can't avoid..When we walk som! e bugs gonna die,when we feed our cats some cows gonna die ,when we fin! d a cockroach in our house we have to kill it,although some vegans do not kill bugs and some vegans feed their cats vegan (which I do not support) but hey we try our best not to harm animals..It' s about minimize the death ,we aware we can't completely avoid it however we don't need to eat meat ,cat's do ..My question is just because some animals will die for our cats why we have to maximize the death by eating animals too when we don't need to???Just because some animals die simply because we are on this planet and take away their homes to build our own ,why we have to maximize it by killing billions more for our taste buds ,sports and entertainment???THINK!!!...Show more
Salvatore Walls: i'm a vegetarian, and although i've got not got a puppy, i might could desire to assert that i does not feed my puppy a vegetarian nutrition plan if it is carnivorous. Vegetarians (for the main section) understand that animals require particular nutrition for food. human beings, on! the different hand, can stay devoid of ingesting meat, so with the flexibility to regulate their nutrition plan, they pick to do in simple terms that.
Merna Fauset: Organic vegan cat foods maybe
Brock Hladik: yes and im a vegan who has had 2 pet birds before and their natural diet does not really consist of meat so they are sort of vegan too
Vida Miss: I am vegan and I feed my cats commercial food with meat because I realize that putting my cat's health at risk because of my beliefs goes against my belief of acting in the best interest of my cats! All I have been able to do is find a food that (claims to) use animals from their natural habitat, so hopefully animals have not had to live unnatural lives. If I ever hear evidence of a nutritionally sound vegetarian/vegan food for my cats, I'll be the first to buy it.Daisy.. FYI, like many vegans, I do not OWN animals, I have rescue cats living with me. The term OWNER only exists because legally cats and do! gs are considered property. Cats and dogs are domesticated animals and! are not meant to live outside (sorry, I know this will cause a stir!). I take in cats no one else would adopt because they are not "perfect" cats and are products of being dumped by owners or are the feral offspring of "pets" being dumped without being altered. I oppose breeding animals because millions of animals are put to death each year after being abandoned and they lack a place to go. I would take in only rescued animals and I do not buy anything for the cats in my home from a store that sells anything breathing.Once again, Daisy, you really seem to dislike veg*ns... so you would probably be happier in another forum....Show more
Marvella Benward: i give my dog regular dog food with chicken.
Caterina Yeargan: Right now, I feed my dog and cat regular food. However, I just read an article about how pet food is unregulated and about what REALLY goes into their food and what they get away with and I'm planning to switch them to something else - not sure wha! t. I just read the article yesterday!
Nikki Sypult: cats and dogs are carnivores and must eat meat. Cats will go blind without the taurine in meat.
Jonathon Labonne: Since cats are carnivores, I feed my cat a natural meat-based cat food. I can choose; she cannot. I can survive without meat; she cannot.And yes, I adopted my cat from a shelter. She was two when I brought her home.
Lucien Hellerman: cats cannot be vegetarians. it's not good for them. therefore, we fed my cat regular cat food. if an animals cannot live the kind of diet i choose, i have no choice. if you don't like it, don't get a cat!as for dogs, they can be vegetarians. therefore, if i had a dog, i would feed him vegetarian dog food. :)
Maria Bengston: Vegans dont own cats. If you have a cat and then decide to become vegan I think you stop feeding it and ask it for its share of the rent. Animals are people too!
Willie Tun: your cats and dogs if you have them?Traditional Meat ! based kibble?Vegetarian Kibble?Raw Food Diet?Why?...Show more
Dav! ina Shindler: Jane - did I say I was feeding a veggie diet? NOOOO. My puppy is going on a raw prey model diet.
Roni Kurz: Responsible vegans feed their pets regular pet food because dogs and cats are carnivores and can get really sick on a vegan diet.
Darcie Peraha: Yes, they make vegan cat and dog food. Its irresponsible to feed your cat vegan food only, however dogs can thrive well on a vegan diet.And mikey up there is incorrect and I guess basing that on opinion, as many vegans have many animal companions..I have cats, whom I adore. And ya I get them all fixed. It truly is crueler in the long run to not fix your pet. There is no guise there. But thats a whole othet topic.. :)...Show more
Dalila Yoon: I feed mine a brand of nutritionally-fortified vegan pet food recommended by our vet.No animal "needs" meat to survive- they need the nutrients contained therein, and just like with humans- it's the nutrition that matters, not the source. My cat's food cont! ains way less garbage than most commercial brands, that's for sure.~vegan mom to a big healthy vegan tom cat~...Show more
Toby Women: I don't have a cat, I do have a dog though. And he eats dog food which, yes, does have animal products in it. However, I'm okay with this because he is a dog and dogs ARE natural carnovires, unlike humans. And as much as I'm against the meat/dairy industry feeding my dog vegetables when he is made to eat animal product would be cruel of me to him.
Robin Tommie: Cat food. Just because you are a vegan doesn't mean your cats are. All it is is meat flavor. Unless its blue buffalo or something.
Troy Monsivais: I also feed my cats & dog regular food. Cats & dogs are meant to be carnivores ~ there is a certain amino acid that is essential to them that is only derived from real meat. Sorry, don't remember all of the specifics right now ~ but discuss it with your vet. She will provide much better info than I can :) But the bottom li! ne, is you will have an unhealthy animal if you try to feed it a vegeta! rian diet. The way I see it ~ animals don't have the conscience/ higher thought function to choose a different diet ~ in the wild they eat meat, I am Ok with providing meat for them. I don't know if I worded that quite right. But I am trying to say that just because you choose to be a vegetarian doesn't mean that you should make that choice for your pet, as well.
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Antwan Schrum: l feed my animals just regular pet food!!!!
Alexis Reyer: You can feed a cat vegan, you just have to be a little more careful than with a dog. Some cats can do just fine on a vegan diet, and from what I hear, others have had some problems. Cats must get a source of Taurine, which is why it is put into vegan cat foods.This vegan cat food website FAQ explains about feeding your cat vegan.http://www.vegancats.com/veganfaq.php...Show more
Maynard Phoubandith: I feed my cat regular cat food even though I am a vegetarian.
Morris Olexy: When i worked at dunks i h! ad a man that would come in once a week and get plain munchkins for his cat. he would peel off the outer layer and feed him the middle. weirdo.
Sylvie Snetting: yes, it was very popular during the pet food scare. Not sure if it's vegan, just natural.
Coleman Senn: Forgot to add BARF(Bones and Raw Food) Diet.Raw Diet is meat bones and organs only
Darrin Hixenbaugh: I feed my dogs Canidae.Dogs aren't herbivores or omnivores, just because I am doesn't mean they have to be too.If I switched them to a vegi-kibble I'd be upsetting the natural order of things. They have sharp canines and no flat teeth for a reason. ...Show more
Dorinda Metzer: Cats are obligatory carnivores that require meat for nutrition like say a lion. They cannot survive off a no-meat diet.Dogs on the other hand are omnivores (not carnivores as many believe due to their classification) & can survive like a human off either diet. Any decent dog food/veg will recommend seaweed/lentils/! rice etc added to the dogs diet for maintainence of skin & hair.So long! as your vet says the dog is fine, there is no problem feeding them a plant based diet...Show more
Renato Abatiell: sad to say I feed them Pedigree, although it's not the best of foods it does has some type of meat in it (er um I think). If I were to feed them a Vegetarian Kibble I would be upsetting the order of nature
Floy Fague: Funny, my dogs won't eat the stuff, they don't even recognize that it's food! I am not a vegetarian but we have friends who are and they always by these treats and stuff for our dogs. It's so weird they won't touch the stuff- but my dogs love carrots, tomatoes, bananas and all types of fruits and vegetables. Also I am allergic to preservatives and dyes so I don't eat it or feed my dogs any- have you every read some of the vegetarian food? It's pure chemicals sometimes! How is that healthy! And I don't eat Gluten which is a chemical extract from wheat- very bad for you!
Janeen Perona: What is a cats natural life? What woul! d a cat or house cat be doing in the world if not a pet? Just wondering. I can see the thought of it not being vegan to own a cat but I don't see cats doing much else than being a pet.Pretty sure if you set it free and didn't become food for a bigger animal it would come back to home. Your home....Show more
