Can your cat or dog remain healthy and happy on a meat-free diet? We explore the benefits and potential pitfalls to making your mutts and moggies go vegan.
WHEN I finally gave up eating meat, I found that I couldn’t actually stop buying meat. My two teenage sons were both big fans of the stuff and my two cats ate nothing but meat. And while I thought the boys might be weaned off it, the cats not so much. I knew that vegan dog diets were available, but assumed that they were suboptimal, and it never even crossed my mind that cats could do the same without losing a few of their nine lives.
Because far from being biologically impossible, the evidence is growing that cats and dogs can be perfectly content on a veggie or even vegan diet. Indeed, they may be healthier than those fed conventional pet food. Nevertheless, vets still tell owners not to impose plant-based diets on dogs and cats, warning that they are probably unhealthy, possibly cruel and potentially illegal.
Cats, dogs and their dinners are big business. In 2018, there were about 370 million pet cats and 470 million pet dogs in the world, together wolfing down . And the pet food market is growing. In the UK, it rose 17 per cent in the five years to 2019.Thousands …
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