Please tell me as Id like to know? Do cats and dogs of veggies/vegans only get veg?

Pet food.

sexyAuntyFuka said:

Martina used to say her pets only ate vegetarian, and that it helped with skin conditions the dogs had

science diet dry cat food for mature adult cats.

and yeah, i know the argument.

just because i made a decision about the way i eat doesn't mean that i should impose that diet on animals that don't have the capacity to adjust the way i can. if anyone has a problem with that, i hope they work it out on their own time.

Anxiety said:

It is much better to feed your cats cat food as opposed to feeding them human food. Half of the shit we eat is bad for us. I get so pissed at ppl that feed their pets ppl food.

It better not be vegetables

shanti0608 said:

a lot of pet food is bad for animals too, as we learned last year with the big pet food scares and the weekly updated lists of which brands were safe and unsafe. most of what's available at the grocery store, i wouldn't feed my cats. on the other hand, i've tried to feed my cats "organic" cat food with all kinds of crazy exotic ingredients and they won't give that stuff the time of day. so i just settle for hill's science diet products - it's a good happy medium of quality and crowdpleaser.

cats are not vegetarians..
and i hate it when VEGANS, get on my case about that bullshit...they also hate the fact that i am only vegetarian, my cats enjoy their fish, why should i take that away from that! I concur with anxiety! peta kids get on my case about that, hence there afterwards, I QUICK PETA!!..well i haven't been a members of theirs since like ..2 years now..

Anxiety said:

how much expensive is that?

Is there such thing as Vegan pet food?

sexyAuntyFuka said:

yes..peta has link to that..i dislike peta, so i will not FETCH them..lol a pun..

baroque said:

Dogs and cat's don't live vegetarian lifestyles in the wild

Cats & dogs are made to eat meat. I think it's wrong to make them go against their nature (not just behavioral nature, but the way their bodies are designed to process food).

Humans are made to eat anything, and that gives them the choice (a fortunate coincidence w/ having free will! ) to eat what they want, and what their morality tells them to eat.

NDRU said:

See, I posed the question of if it's moral for animals to eat animals, why isn't it moral for us. I don't think I got a coherent answer though

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I know!! thats is my argument. i get called ignorant for that all the time lol.

NDRU said:

well said.

baroque said:

it's a little more expensive than your typical meow mix or 9 lives, but not a whole lot more expensive. finding it is more of a hassle than the extra cost, as far as i'm concerned. you can usually find it at petsmart or petco, though. any pet supply store should carry science diet.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I'm not sure there is morality in an animal that operates on instinct. As smart as some dogs are, I still think they are instinctive and respond to reward/pack mentality more than thinking.

It seems to be one of the ways humans are unique. IMO, of course!

NDRU said:

Who says it's not in our nature or instinctive to eat meat? That's the question

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i haven't eaten meat in 20 years and i haven't gotten sick nor have i craved meat for many, many years. humans know how to create a meat-free dietary lifestyle which can sustain us and also provide us with tasty food. i think the ability to make those informed choices are part of our nature as humans.

Anxiety said:

Are we arguing?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I believe it's instinctive to eat whatever we can, whenever we need it. That's a basic survival instinct, and I assume many vegans would eat meat if there was no choice.

But humans have free will and consciousness and most of us are in a fortunate enough position to make the choice. As anx said, the ability to choose is a unique part of human nature.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i hope not cuz i'm tired, shit

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

neither do Humans.

byronic said:

so, so stuck your toe..

byronic said:

humans don't eat at mcdonalds or white castle in the wild, either. just sayin'.

Anxiety said:

OHHH SNAP!!!

go anxiety! go! dance!

Anxiety said:

And it varies from place to place. In Iceland they probably eat mostly meat, and in warmer places they eat more veggies. There are probably locales where the people are naturally vegetarian.

NDRU said:

i was pretty pleasantly surprised to find quite a few vegetarian/vegan restaurants in iceland. of course, there were plenty more gamey options, but considering the size of reykjavik, the ratio of veggie restaurants to meat eating dens was proportionate to any other large city i've been to.

I'm veggie but I still feed my cat meats along with some hard/dryfood. She's far too old to be changing her diet now I wouldn't do that to her anyway, but I know of cats that only eat hard/dryfood, I'm not sure what's in that tho so I don't know if that counts as veggie.