Great video! So nice to hear you talk about your vegan dog and about your thoughts around veganism. A little puppy came to me, and I wanted him to be as healthy as possible so I thought after a lot of research that raw meat and bones was best, but I feel so uncomfortable to buy meat and support such a terrible industry that the meat industry is, so now I am thinking of feeding him vegan. First I must do a lot of research. But if dogs live long as vegans too and are healthy, I will go for it.
You people are evil to treat natural carnivours, cats and dogs, like this. Don't push your ideology on these innocent creatures who defenseless against your idiot beliefs. If you can't live with the fact that dogs and cats eat meat, then don't become a dog/cat parent. I have saved a number of dogs and cats that were considered terminally ill by simply changing their diet to include proper amounts of raw meats, muscle and organ - the results are incredible.
@MrAbinico I'll be blunt: if they became ill, you probably fed them wrong. There's no reason why they would become sick if they were given all the proper vitamins.
@Outrae I'll be equally blunt - you display incredible ignorance by if you think it is simply "vitamins". The nutrional profile of a rabbit or mouse carcass is nothing like that of a carrot or cabbage. Guess which nutrional profile is the evolutionary fit for dog and cats.
@bohewe If you don't want animals killed to feed your dog, then don't get a dog, simple. Dogs can tolerate not eating meat, but they do not enjoy it. Give them meat on a plate or your vegan nonsense and they will eat the meat 100% of the time and urinate on the vegan food.
i know there are certain foods that are bad for cats and dogs which is why i held bk from making my cats their own food.. what would you suggest for cat owners? i heard of vegecat :) its expensive tho :(
@weirdfetishes5 - I think cat caregivers who are vegan should give their cats some vegan food, to help lessen the demand for animal products. I have given them squash, mashed tofu with oil, nutritional yeast, kelp or seaweed and a dash of salty flavour.
I follow my conscience more than what I read. I don't go and get "pets" as someone suggested I go out and get a rabbit or a natural herbivore. I rescue nonhuman animals that come across my path. If they want to live with me (and there are many benefits to them in this case) they have to eat a plant-based diet.
@TheVeganPoet1 Why do they have to eat a plant based diet? Why are your imposing your morality on an animal that has no choice? That is animal cruelty. Dogs love meat, that is a fact. Put meat on a plate and vegan food, and you will see what it wants to eat.
It's hard not to be a little split on this issue even reading people's earnest comments. However it must still be better than the dry kibble crap. Problems more arise from time to prepare and cost. FYI Did you know Quinoa can only be grown in certain places? It's so friggin expensive for so little, and what comes to us is starving Bolivians and they turn to McJunks.
@bohewe I would also disagree that a healthy diet is about nutrients and not actual food. Read Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food". The idea of nutritionalism doesn't take into account the whole food and how the compounds work together; and all the compounds in scientists haven't yet discovered if are important or not. If a healthy diet was only about nutrients, we'd have our meals in pill-form. A daily multivitamin doesn't equal "healthy diet".
@bohewe Dogs are scavengers and can survive on less-than-ideal diets. Humans can survive on McDonalds every day, that doesn't mean that should be our diet. A gorilla is a primate, a dog is a canid. Gorilla use their large teeth for social reasons, wolves use their teeth primarily for eating. Dogs lack digestive enzymes like amylase that break down plant matter cell walls. They also have shorter digestive tracts, like all carnivores do (omnivores and herbivores have much longer digestive tracts.)
@bohewe Do you realize you just essential said "nature is unethical"? Animals killing and eating other animals is part of nature. Life isn't a Disney movie where lions, meercats, and warthogs are friends.
There is evidence that dogs and cats essentially domesticated themselves. They knew were food was (scraps humans left behind), and the friendlier the animals were, the better off they were getting scraps. Eventually the ones that looked to humans became today's domestic dogs & cats.
Great video. Thanks for sharing! @3:03, if I understand correctly, you suggest that dogs may or may not be able to be vegan. What is the best / safest way of telling whether your dog is able to be vegan?
Dogs are not omnivores. They are hypercarnivores. This means that her diet should be 70% meat or more. Dogs can live (and THRIVE) on a diet of absolutely zero meat. They can live on vegetables alone due to their ability to produce taurine and amylase, but it is not best for them. Please reconsider your dog's diet. That said, your dog is MUCH MUCH better off on a vegan diet than on ANY commercial kibble- ANY. Even "high quality" (BAH!) kibbles.
great video! we have had vegan dogs (rescued pit bulls) for 15+ years and they have all been very happy and healthy. dogs are omnivorous and do not require meat to live and thrive. wish more pet owners were as compassionate as you are.
WOW what a beautiful message>>this gives me hope because my dogs fur started falling out (I was feeding her commercial dog food). i started doing research and everything i came across pointed to a raw meat diet. but being vegan it killed me to think i would have to buy animal flesh for my dog....now i know that she can eat just like me!!!!
@RummyMummy The raw meat diet was on the right track, but a vegan diet is the exact opposite you want to go. It's hard on a dog's system to try to pull nutrients from food it isn't meant to digest (i.e. plant matter) and weakens their immune systems. Dogs can't even digest plant matter unless it's pureed, they lack the required enzymes to break down plant cell walls.
Vegetarian/vegan diets for dogs are neglectful bordering on cruelty.
@abbyful actually since this video i have done research on the dogvegan diet...they are omnivores, and can thrive on a v-diet. since my dog stopped eating meat her fur has grown back and she is more active and EATS. she wouldnt eat the meat, and when she did she would pick at it....saying a vegan diet is cruel to your animals- ok, do you know what goes on in the meat industry? and "neglectful?" one of the reasons to be vegan is compassion for animals, which is what we are doing with our dogs...
@RummyMummy You need to do some research that isn't from veg*n groups trying to push their agenda. There is NOTHING physiologically about a dog that indicates it's an omnivore. Teeth, digestive tract, digestive enzymes, etc., everything says "carnivore"!
Read the article I posted yesterday.
Read this one too: thewholedog (dot) org (slash) artcarnivores (dot) html
@abbyful i dont think you actually read my post above, my dogs health has IMPROVED since going veg. so we will have to agree to disagree. obviously you are unaware of the horrors of the meat industry, and what is actually in commercial pet food and the poor standards of meat for human consumption. so you can go ahead and do what you think is right for your pet, and me for mine. best wishes...
Your dog's health probably improved because it got off kibble, not because it's vegan. If you think your dog is "thriving", just image what it what be on a species-appropriate diet!
I don't feed commercial kibble, I feed a raw prey-model diet.
I grew up farming/ranching, I certainly do know what goes on and I know that there are more ethical sources for meat (aka: local farmers) if you don't want to buy meat from animals raised in feedlots.
@abbyful ok well again we will have to agree to disagree. it is against my morals to buy meat, whether it be from feedlots or local farmers, which is why i was happy to hear that my dog can eat a v-diet. Your clearly on the opposite side of the fence, and thats fine. if you dont like the vegan diet, then you dont have to. i accept the fact that not everyone puts their dogs on a vegan diet, so in return, accept my choice. after all, dont we all love our pets and want whats best for our own?
@RummyMummy Please don't get any more dogs or cats as pets then. Stick to rabbits, guinea pigs, iguanas, and other animals that are *meant* to be herbivores.
@RummyMummy If it's against your morals to buy meat, don't get a dog, simple. If it's against your morals to buy meat, don't get an animal that likes and thrives on meat.
Great video! So nice to hear you talk about your vegan dog and about your thoughts around veganism. A little puppy came to me, and I wanted him to be as healthy as possible so I thought after a lot of research that raw meat and bones was best, but I feel so uncomfortable to buy meat and support such a terrible industry that the meat industry is, so now I am thinking of feeding him vegan. First I must do a lot of research. But if dogs live long as vegans too and are healthy, I will go for it.
43110s 4 weeks ago
Awesome.....very knowledgeable and passionate about being vegan and your so loved companion!
Danielvegan1 3 months ago
You people are evil to treat natural carnivours, cats and dogs, like this. Don't push your ideology on these innocent creatures who defenseless against your idiot beliefs. If you can't live with the fact that dogs and cats eat meat, then don't become a dog/cat parent. I have saved a number of dogs and cats that were considered terminally ill by simply changing their diet to include proper amounts of raw meats, muscle and organ - the results are incredible.
MrAbinico 4 months ago
@MrAbinico I'll be blunt: if they became ill, you probably fed them wrong. There's no reason why they would become sick if they were given all the proper vitamins.
Outrae 1 week ago
@Outrae I'll be equally blunt - you display incredible ignorance by if you think it is simply "vitamins". The nutrional profile of a rabbit or mouse carcass is nothing like that of a carrot or cabbage. Guess which nutrional profile is the evolutionary fit for dog and cats.
MrAbinico 4 days ago
@bohewe If you don't want animals killed to feed your dog, then don't get a dog, simple. Dogs can tolerate not eating meat, but they do not enjoy it. Give them meat on a plate or your vegan nonsense and they will eat the meat 100% of the time and urinate on the vegan food.
ojideagu 6 months ago
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ojideagu 6 months ago
i know there are certain foods that are bad for cats and dogs which is why i held bk from making my cats their own food.. what would you suggest for cat owners? i heard of vegecat :) its expensive tho :(
weirdfetishes5 8 months ago
@weirdfetishes5 - I think cat caregivers who are vegan should give their cats some vegan food, to help lessen the demand for animal products. I have given them squash, mashed tofu with oil, nutritional yeast, kelp or seaweed and a dash of salty flavour.
TheVeganPoet1 7 months ago
@TheVeganPoet1 I think that vegans shouldn't even consider buying a predator in the first place.
jbkgjbkg 3 months ago
I follow my conscience more than what I read. I don't go and get "pets" as someone suggested I go out and get a rabbit or a natural herbivore. I rescue nonhuman animals that come across my path. If they want to live with me (and there are many benefits to them in this case) they have to eat a plant-based diet.
TheVeganPoet1 9 months ago
@TheVeganPoet1 Why do they have to eat a plant based diet? Why are your imposing your morality on an animal that has no choice? That is animal cruelty. Dogs love meat, that is a fact. Put meat on a plate and vegan food, and you will see what it wants to eat.
ojideagu 6 months ago
@TheVeganPoet1 You cannot bond with the dog if it eats meat? Then you are denying and rejecting its true nature. That is very sad in my opinion.
ojideagu 6 months ago
It's hard not to be a little split on this issue even reading people's earnest comments. However it must still be better than the dry kibble crap. Problems more arise from time to prepare and cost. FYI Did you know Quinoa can only be grown in certain places? It's so friggin expensive for so little, and what comes to us is starving Bolivians and they turn to McJunks.
101101101777 10 months ago
love this! my dogs love vegan food .
labsheVegan4life 10 months ago
@bohewe I would also disagree that a healthy diet is about nutrients and not actual food. Read Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food". The idea of nutritionalism doesn't take into account the whole food and how the compounds work together; and all the compounds in scientists haven't yet discovered if are important or not. If a healthy diet was only about nutrients, we'd have our meals in pill-form. A daily multivitamin doesn't equal "healthy diet".
abbyful 10 months ago
@bohewe Dogs are scavengers and can survive on less-than-ideal diets. Humans can survive on McDonalds every day, that doesn't mean that should be our diet. A gorilla is a primate, a dog is a canid. Gorilla use their large teeth for social reasons, wolves use their teeth primarily for eating. Dogs lack digestive enzymes like amylase that break down plant matter cell walls. They also have shorter digestive tracts, like all carnivores do (omnivores and herbivores have much longer digestive tracts.)
abbyful 10 months ago
@bohewe Do you realize you just essential said "nature is unethical"? Animals killing and eating other animals is part of nature. Life isn't a Disney movie where lions, meercats, and warthogs are friends.
There is evidence that dogs and cats essentially domesticated themselves. They knew were food was (scraps humans left behind), and the friendlier the animals were, the better off they were getting scraps. Eventually the ones that looked to humans became today's domestic dogs & cats.
abbyful 10 months ago
Great video. Thanks for sharing! @3:03, if I understand correctly, you suggest that dogs may or may not be able to be vegan. What is the best / safest way of telling whether your dog is able to be vegan?
MrandMissConverted 1 year ago
I luv u! And your dog. Your beautiful and compassionate
1982mockingbird1982 1 year ago
Dogs are not omnivores. They are hypercarnivores. This means that her diet should be 70% meat or more. Dogs can live (and THRIVE) on a diet of absolutely zero meat. They can live on vegetables alone due to their ability to produce taurine and amylase, but it is not best for them. Please reconsider your dog's diet. That said, your dog is MUCH MUCH better off on a vegan diet than on ANY commercial kibble- ANY. Even "high quality" (BAH!) kibbles.
quarterpastcrazy 1 year ago
great video! we have had vegan dogs (rescued pit bulls) for 15+ years and they have all been very happy and healthy. dogs are omnivorous and do not require meat to live and thrive. wish more pet owners were as compassionate as you are.
markgil42 1 year ago 7
Dogs are not omnivores.
rawfed (dot) com (slash) myths (slash) omnivores (dot) html
abbyful 1 year ago
WOW what a beautiful message>>this gives me hope because my dogs fur started falling out (I was feeding her commercial dog food). i started doing research and everything i came across pointed to a raw meat diet. but being vegan it killed me to think i would have to buy animal flesh for my dog....now i know that she can eat just like me!!!!
RummyMummy 1 year ago
@RummyMummy The raw meat diet was on the right track, but a vegan diet is the exact opposite you want to go. It's hard on a dog's system to try to pull nutrients from food it isn't meant to digest (i.e. plant matter) and weakens their immune systems. Dogs can't even digest plant matter unless it's pureed, they lack the required enzymes to break down plant cell walls.
Vegetarian/vegan diets for dogs are neglectful bordering on cruelty.
abbyful 1 year ago
@abbyful actually since this video i have done research on the dogvegan diet...they are omnivores, and can thrive on a v-diet. since my dog stopped eating meat her fur has grown back and she is more active and EATS. she wouldnt eat the meat, and when she did she would pick at it....saying a vegan diet is cruel to your animals- ok, do you know what goes on in the meat industry? and "neglectful?" one of the reasons to be vegan is compassion for animals, which is what we are doing with our dogs...
RummyMummy 1 year ago 2
@RummyMummy You need to do some research that isn't from veg*n groups trying to push their agenda. There is NOTHING physiologically about a dog that indicates it's an omnivore. Teeth, digestive tract, digestive enzymes, etc., everything says "carnivore"!
Read the article I posted yesterday.
Read this one too: thewholedog (dot) org (slash) artcarnivores (dot) html
abbyful 1 year ago
@abbyful i dont think you actually read my post above, my dogs health has IMPROVED since going veg. so we will have to agree to disagree. obviously you are unaware of the horrors of the meat industry, and what is actually in commercial pet food and the poor standards of meat for human consumption. so you can go ahead and do what you think is right for your pet, and me for mine. best wishes...
RummyMummy 1 year ago 3
@RummyMummy
Your dog's health probably improved because it got off kibble, not because it's vegan. If you think your dog is "thriving", just image what it what be on a species-appropriate diet!
I don't feed commercial kibble, I feed a raw prey-model diet.
I grew up farming/ranching, I certainly do know what goes on and I know that there are more ethical sources for meat (aka: local farmers) if you don't want to buy meat from animals raised in feedlots.
abbyful 1 year ago
@abbyful ok well again we will have to agree to disagree. it is against my morals to buy meat, whether it be from feedlots or local farmers, which is why i was happy to hear that my dog can eat a v-diet. Your clearly on the opposite side of the fence, and thats fine. if you dont like the vegan diet, then you dont have to. i accept the fact that not everyone puts their dogs on a vegan diet, so in return, accept my choice. after all, dont we all love our pets and want whats best for our own?
RummyMummy 1 year ago
@RummyMummy Please don't get any more dogs or cats as pets then. Stick to rabbits, guinea pigs, iguanas, and other animals that are *meant* to be herbivores.
abbyful 1 year ago
@RummyMummy If it's against your morals to buy meat, don't get a dog, simple. If it's against your morals to buy meat, don't get an animal that likes and thrives on meat.
ojideagu 6 months ago
I tried getting my cats to go vegan...but they all died.
raultalbot7 1 year ago
lol Awesome.
RagingConflagration 1 year ago