Dogs are NOT carnivores

[Guest guest]

I urge those of you who are telling Danielle that dogs are carnivores

to do a little more research. They are actually omnivores like humans

and, like humans, can survive as both carnivores and herbivores.

Pointing to one's teeth as evidence is incorrect. If you look at a

baboon's teeth, you will see that they look much more ferocious, yet

no one is telling baboon's that they should be eating meat instead of

consuming all that vegetation. And, they ARE actually natural

creatures unlike domesticated animals. Teeth develop based on social

structures not diet. The documented oldest-living dog is vegan being

fed a diet of brown rice, lentils, and vegetables.

 

Dogs are domesticated animals, and by the nature of domestication, are

not natural, so to say that meat is natural for them makes little

sense. My dog is vegan and is healthy on a vegan diet. However, even

if the vegan diet were a little less than ideal for my dog, I would

not be comfortable feeding her animals. I simply cannot justify

killing one animal to save another; favoring the seen animal over the

unseen just doesn't work for me. She's welcome to hunt for what she

wants on our property, but I won't have any part in causing suffering

for her survival.

 

FYI - I didn't actually want a dog at the time mine came into my life.

My son was 6 weeks old, but the rescue group begged me to take her.

I told them I would foster her, but they begged some more, and we kept

her. So, don't flame me for getting a dog!

 

--Allison

[Guest guest]

Ah, similar situation over here! Well, we wanted a dog, just not this one. She

was out in a tiny yard being fed the lowest quality " food " on the market, alone,

filthy, and unhappy times a million. Now with her " unnatural " home cooked

vegetarian diet she has her very own full-sized bed in our room, a friend,

constant attention... nice trade-off!

 

 

 

Allison <vegucation wrote: I urge

those of you who are telling Danielle that dogs are carnivores

to do a little more research. They are actually omnivores like humans

and, like humans, can survive as both carnivores and herbivores.

Pointing to one's teeth as evidence is incorrect. If you look at a

baboon's teeth, you will see that they look much more ferocious, yet

no one is telling baboon's that they should be eating meat instead of

consuming all that vegetation. And, they ARE actually natural

creatures unlike domesticated animals. Teeth develop based on social

structures not diet. The documented oldest-living dog is vegan being

fed a diet of brown rice, lentils, and vegetables.

 

Dogs are domesticated animals, and by the nature of domestication, are

not natural, so to say that meat is natural for them makes little

sense. My dog is vegan and is healthy on a vegan diet. However, even

if the vegan diet were a little less than ideal for my dog, I would

not be comfortable feeding her animals. I simply cannot justify

killing one animal to save another; favoring the seen animal over the

unseen just doesn't work for me. She's welcome to hunt for what she

wants on our property, but I won't have any part in causing suffering

for her survival.

 

FYI - I didn't actually want a dog at the time mine came into my life.

My son was 6 weeks old, but the rescue group begged me to take her.

I told them I would foster her, but they begged some more, and we kept

her. So, don't flame me for getting a dog!

 

--Allison

 

 

 

 

 

 

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