Veterinarian Speaks about Feeding Dogs a Vegan Diet

I got a chance to interview veterinarian Armaiti May about feeding companion animals vegan and vegetarian diets. You can learn more about Dr. May at her website, http://veganvet.net/

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• vegan
• vegetarian
• vegan dog
• vegan dogfood
• dogfood
• dogs
• animals
• v-dog

[Matthhewx]

this stuff is damn idiotic...

Certain people dont respect their animal companions enough to support their natural needs...

Dogs being omnivores... srsly... this is the biggest joke of the century!Try feeding a dog with only raw meat or only vegetables(no not with multivitamin powders and artificial amino acids etc)...Check the result...

everything about a dog or cat's body design says they were designed for a carnivorous, hunting lifestyle geared toward killing prey.Facts ppl and anathomy....

[VeganBreak]

@Matthhewx My dog has been vegan for 4 years and is thriving. Every vet I've been to has agreed. Dogs can most definitely thrive on a vegan diet.

[VeganBreak]

actually, dogs are omnivores, like humans, and can be healthy and very happy on a vegan diet. If you ask the SPCA, I'm sure they will agree.

[baxterandcotton]

dogs are not carnivores, you moron.

[baxterandcotton]

My dogs started to hate their dog food, and we didn't like having animals die for their food anyway so we started feeding them home cooked vegan meals. They love it!!!They have always been healthy dogs, but I have noticed some improvements in the shine of our newest dog's fur.( She was a stray with a fairly rough coat.) They also have better stools...Sorry if that is too much info.......

[ryankorczak]

Let me put an animal carcass down beside a plate of veggies and try to tell me dogs are "mainly omnivores". My Jack Russell caught and killed a rabbit in the forest yesterday, which I brought home for her to eat. Dogs anatomy and digestive systems are built to eat raw meat. I'm a vegan, and I have no problem ethically feeding my dogs meat. I go to the butcher shops and for next to nothing buy all the stuff that humans won't consume, that would normally be thrown out. No dog thrives on kibble.

[Matthhewx]

@thatbitchonskates Basically...if you are so serious about not wanting to hurt any living thing at the cost of your life, then you better just jump into a lioncage...no more plants or animals hurt by you animore+you provide aa nice meal for them=profit...

Now the serious part:Every singl living thing lives at the cost of something elses life...That's the rule of nature!And even if in this case the nature is tricked by a grotesque industry...it is a needed bad thing...

[Matthhewx]

@thatbitchonskates good thing plants are not living beings... oh wait... they are!Stop with this brainwashng bullshit...All this vegan stuff is like a religion...nothing more nothing less....And if you believe in it strong enough you can enjoy the placebo effects of belief at least;)...Enjoy it but at least stop trying to spread the world how much better you think you are coz aou(or your pet) dont eat animals,coz plants do live and suffer aswell at the cost of our life!

[thatbitchonskates]

@Matthhewx my dog and my cat are totally vegan and totally healthy. I don't have ethical problems in my mind asking myself how come I respect the life of my dog but not the life of cows and pigs - amazing animals in their own right. It is my belief that all domesticated animals and humans should be vegans.

[jjlinert]

Aren't milk and eggs okay for dogs?

[animegirl13pain]

I don't know why people think domesticated dogs are carnivores. They've adapted over the years to traveling with us and therefor have mostly eaten veggie diets anyway. If you look at the dog food you feed your dog i bet most of it contains veggies and the meat that you feed it is prob just a by-product (waste, as she mentioned in the video).

[jbkgjbkg]

My dog has survived on a veggie diet for a couple of days now, I simply mix up some pizza and he just loves it.

[jbkgjbkg]

@baxterandcotton That depends, they are mostly carnivorus but will eat veggies too. I think they should eat what wolves eat in nature.

[Matthhewx]

@Matthhewx

Even for humans this vegan marketing is amazing stuff for me...You just dont reach any goal by doing this...As long as the majority of ppl do eat meat,the process continues...And the only thing you do is supporting a new industry that is based arround people being maniac vegans...You know...special foods,special supplements etc etc...And what do you see about them?:) They are more expensive...And many of them do still contain preservatives...Dont be fkin brainwashed droids...