Vegan dog food?

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hi Joanna,

 

We have 3 dogs. Two of them became vegan about 5 or 6

years ago. They were adults then, now they are 12

and 10 years old. The 3d dog was taken from a shelter

at age of 5 months and became vegan right after

leaving his cage in LA shelter. Now he is 4 years old.

All of them are healthy and happy. They have very

good shiny fur and good teeth. At their age they don't

have any lumps like many of their not vegan mates do.

We give them commercial vegetarian dog food (the

ingredients list doesn't show any animal products).

It is a balanced meal, which includes B12 and other

necessary vitamins and minerals. We also used to buy

for them veggie yeast for dogs (it has all amino

acids, b 12 and creates acidic environment for the

intestines).

We also share with them our breakfast and dinner. For

breakfast all humans get oatmeal with flax oil and non

humans get the same oatmeal with crushed tofu pups or

canadian veggie bacon. Dinner is cooked for everyone

and it is usually pasta or beans or rice. Very often

part of the meal is tofu. The dogs love tofu. They

also love pasta with beans and tomato sauce and vegan

sausage on the top, they like mexican food: rice,

beans and guacamole. They love bean soups, lentils.

Sometimes i make raw borscht from Juliano's Raw

uncooked book. The youngest dog likes it so much and

the other two would just drink the liquid from it. We

use a lot of flax oil instead of olive (when the meal

is already not hot).

 

I get the dog food from Good Earth in Fairfax or

recently i ordered it on line and it turned out so

much cheaper and very fast. There are lots of

companies which would sell on internet but they charge

very high prices.

 

here are the two types of canned dog food we give to

our pets:

Vegetarian dog Formular (from Natural Life)

Vegetarian Feast Dinner (from Pet Guard).

 

You can order the food from those manufactures or get

it from health food stores, they usually charge less

then manufactures and you can special order from the

stores with 10% discount.

 

 

The least expensive way to get canned vegetarian dog

food is the one which i just recently discovered:

http://www.epetpals.com/vegetarian_dog_food.htm

They have the best prices.

 

I also got a book " Vegetarian Cats and dogs " by James

A.Peden. I bought it on line some time ago.

 

My experience shows that being vegan doesn't deprive

or hurt our companion animals: they are healthy and

playful and intelligent.

 

Good luck!

 

Lidia

 

 

 

 

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