What is your opinion on "meat-free" dog food for vegetarian dog owners???

BZR · 09-08-08, 02:43

Can a dog actually live a long healthy and normal life on this kind of diet???
http://www.veggiepets.com/
http://www.v-dogfood.com/
http://www.vegetariandogs.com/VDWebsite/vd.htm

Cats, too???

marci452 · 09-08-08, 02:48

Unless the animal is allergic and cannot eat meat, I think it is animal abuse to feed a vegetarian diet to a dog or cat. Neither can assimilate protein from grains or corn as people can. You are basically starving the animal slowly.

Nature created dogs and cats to be carnivores - don't mess with mom

Jackie · 09-08-08, 02:50

I think that if the owner is a vegetarian and want their dogs to be then they should. If they dogs are healthy and happy on the diet, i see nothing wrong with it

Jane Marple · 09-08-08, 02:52

Without the protein found in meat your dog is at risk of losing muscles and the most important muscle is the heart....you could weaken his heart among other things and that would be fatal.

Keep your dog away from that food. Your dog needs meat.

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09-08-08, 02:48	#2
marci452 Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 49	Unless the animal is allergic and cannot eat meat, I think it is animal abuse to feed a vegetarian diet to a dog or cat. Neither can assimilate protein from grains or corn as people can. You are basically starving the animal slowly. Nature created dogs and cats to be carnivores - don't mess with mom

09-08-08, 02:50	#3
Jackie Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 130	I think that if the owner is a vegetarian and want their dogs to be then they should. If they dogs are healthy and happy on the diet, i see nothing wrong with it

09-08-08, 02:52	#4
Jane Marple Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 59	Without the protein found in meat your dog is at risk of losing muscles and the most important muscle is the heart....you could weaken his heart among other things and that would be fatal. Keep your dog away from that food. Your dog needs meat.