Question and the sweet sound of success!

April 8, 2007

My question is, typically how do vegetarians feel about owning animals

that eat meat like a snake that would have to eat a mouse? And my sweet

success, I went a holiday at familys who are not vegetarians and I can

say that I am still a vegetarian. It has been over a month since my

husband and I decided to go veg and we dont regret it at all, the site

of meat makes us sick to our stomachs. We did recieve a lot of flak and

were even called some names, on Easter, crazy I know and by family. My

family is very traditional, we were also told we werent American. lol

Any I hope everyone had a great day!

April 8, 2007

, " Tabitha " <pLeOaVcEe

wrote:

>

> My question is, typically how do vegetarians feel about owning

animals

> that eat meat like a snake that would have to eat a mouse?

If the animal species isn't vegetarian then what would be the problem?

Cat's will catch mice, lizards, birds and this is nature and natural

for them. A snake isn't vegetarian and if you are going to keep it as

a pet, it certainly isn't going to survive on a lettuce leaf so if you

can't feed it a mouse then it's not the pet for you. My Grandparents

owned a pet shop and I've had all types of pets, I prefer dogs and

cats, I didn't care to feed the Oscar fish a goldfish nor a mouse to

the snake, crickets to my frogs. It wasn't a problem for me as a teen

but as I became a vegetarian it did bother me.

Donna

April 8, 2007

Well, I'm fairly new here but for me, I have 1 bird, 2 cats and 2 dogs. The

dogs and cats should eat meat, but the funny thing is, even when we did eat

meat, they looked at it like it was foreign to them. They've always liked

vegetables. My dog Daisy loves olive oil and vinegar from my salad. Put

ranch dressing on a salad and she won't touch the plate if she were

starving. My cats have always loved to eat vegetables. On occasion I used

to make them rice and tuna or salmon if I was running low on cat food, and

Charlie won't touch the salmon. He'll eat the tuna, but he makes sure I

know he isn't happy about it. As far as snakes go - that's NEVER going to

be an issue because there isn't a house in this world that is big enough for

me and a snake!!!!!

Your family will eventually come around. I'm in my 40s and it took my mom a

long time to accept that I'm a vegetarian. Not that she condemned it, but

she was concerned about the lack of protein in my and my son's diet. It

took about a year, but now she supports me completely. My daughter doesn't

have any problems with it either, but she understands that I became a

vegetarian because I want to be here to see her daughter grow up. Now the

one thing that's bothering her (and not really in a bad way) is that her one

year old will take bites off a veggie burger, struggle to eat a piece of

lettuce, eat a plain French fry, and drink water when that's not something

my daughter does! It was pretty funny when we were at Burger King the other

day because she kept offering Faith French fries with ketchup on them and

she made the most awful faces. But I could hold my veggie burger over there

and she'd take an actual bite off of it and sit there mashing it in her

mouth until she could swallow it! And then she'd grab her bottle of water

and take a drink off of it - another thing my daughter doesn't believe in.

My best friend, the only other " family " I have up here (my mom lives about

400 miles away so I don't get to see her often), she makes sure that when I

come to dinner she has things I can eat. They've all been really supportive

of my being a vegetarian once they realized that I was serious about it. It

takes time to get them to think you're not going through a phase, but in

time they do come around.

On Behalf Of Tabitha

Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:19 PM