Pet food
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 12:26 pm
Hi all - I've been vegetarian since 2014 and vegan for a year. All is going well.
However, we have a dog (rescue) and we've tried all sorts of foods with him over the years (for allergy and other health reasons, and palatability) and nothing works with him aside from raw food. As you can imagine, having a freezer full of raw meats of various sorts isn't what we want in our household, but we have an obligation to care for our dog, who we love utterly and completely.
Do you have any advice on other alternatives we could try, or how to at least reduce our impact on the poor animals who are killed so that ours can live? We are painfully aware of the hypocrisy. P.S. We've tried various vegan foods (like Benevo, for example), and while he'll eat a bit as a novelty, he refuses to eat more than a mouthful.
Is having pets - particularly omnivorous/carnivorous species - just never compatible with a vegan life? Or - as I've been trying to rationalise it to myself - is my reduction in animal products helping to offset the fact that my dog is still eating animals (as it would surely be worse in a competely omnivorous house). I appreciate that argument is weak, by the way.
Thank you - Anders.
However, we have a dog (rescue) and we've tried all sorts of foods with him over the years (for allergy and other health reasons, and palatability) and nothing works with him aside from raw food. As you can imagine, having a freezer full of raw meats of various sorts isn't what we want in our household, but we have an obligation to care for our dog, who we love utterly and completely.
Do you have any advice on other alternatives we could try, or how to at least reduce our impact on the poor animals who are killed so that ours can live? We are painfully aware of the hypocrisy. P.S. We've tried various vegan foods (like Benevo, for example), and while he'll eat a bit as a novelty, he refuses to eat more than a mouthful.
Is having pets - particularly omnivorous/carnivorous species - just never compatible with a vegan life? Or - as I've been trying to rationalise it to myself - is my reduction in animal products helping to offset the fact that my dog is still eating animals (as it would surely be worse in a competely omnivorous house). I appreciate that argument is weak, by the way.
Thank you - Anders.