I'm not sure if this is a serious question. A dog may be able to live off a veggie diet but its certainly a lot healthier to eat only meat and bones, since dogs are carnivores no omnivores or herbivores. But if you insist on feeding a dog a veggie diet than make sure to look up the nutritional needs for a dog that size and find foods that can match that, and you need to give it something hard like a bone to clean its teeth or they will eventually rot away. But again I highly recommend not doing this. Most vets either recommend a kibble diet or a raw diet consisting of nothing but raw meat and bones and that's the healthiest but you also take some small risks when feeding raw. And if you look in the ingredients of real high end dog food, like blue, you'll see there aren't any grains or vegetables because those make a dog more fat and have a lot of carbs and other things the body can't process.
A PURE veggie diet would not be good for a dog or a cat. Brown rice, potatoes, vegetables, cod liver oil, soy, brewer's yeast, wheat, are great foods to include in the animal's diet. However, at least 40 percent of the diet should consist of fish, chicken and stock. With this combination you will have a healthy animal with only minor health issues throughout it's life. Animals that eat 100 percent meat are prone to numerous health issues. lf you want to make your veterinarian rich then continue to feed 100 percent meat.
You will kill your dog. Some lady tried feed cats and only veggie diet and they all died within a month and grew very weak. Dogs NEED meat, there's no way around that. You can get a vegetarian all you want and tahts great for you but don't force your dogs to do it.
Umm, NO. Dogs are CANIVORES (meat eaters) designed by NATURE to digest meat and BONE in 4 hours or less. They CANNOT digest raw fruit or vegetables due to the plant cellulose. Feeding the dog a vegetarian diet (like you are proposing) and it will most likely sicken and become ill.
Dogs have an entirely DIFFERENT digestive tract (length & much stronger digestive juices) than humans (who are omnivores able to eat teh widest variety of foods) or cows =herbivores (the latter designed to be vegetarians by nature).
Dogs are carnivores. Trying to feed your dog lentils is like trying to feed a horse steak. The healthiest thing to feed your dog is a good high quality dog food made with high protein that they need to be healthy.
I have a friend who is vegetarian for religious reasons, she cannot have any meat on any surfaces that her food might come in contact with. Despite this, she STILL feeds her dog a meat based diet because it's what is best for her dog. Eating purely veggies might be healthy in humans (the jury is still out on it to be honest) but pure veggies in dogs is NOT healthier than meat.
Dogs are carnavores. Meat is their basic staple diet - but they can eat certain fruit and veg. . I do know that they enjoy a slice of apple, a few scoops of plain bio yogurt, an occasional piece of cheese, a bran or wholegrain cracker,, even a small portion of porridge....most dogs are partial to a slice of raw carrot too...BUT BEWARE PLEASE! certain fruit and veg can be poisenous to dogs such as onions! Grapes! Citrus fruits! I know that most dogs enjoy a nut, especially peanuts.A teaspoon of olive oil mixed into their meat will give their coat a healthy shine too. Truthfully dogs are NOT vegaterians. To feed them nowt but veg is cruel! Make sur eyour doog has a full and healthy balanced diet of meat, dog biscuits and little portions of suitable fruit veg and nuts as a treat.
Dogs are carnivores. People have come very close to causing serious health problems for their pets by trying to feed them strictly vegetarian or vegan diets. If you want to do that for yourself, go on ahead. But for an animal that needs to eat meat and depends on you to provide the correct nutrition for it, please do not remove meat from your dog's diet.
You are asking mere dog owners this question. However when you get into the nutrition experts, you get far different answers.
Dr. Joe Bartges, DVM, diplomate of the American College of Vet Internal Medicine and of the American College of Vet Nutrition as well as professor of medicine and nutrition at the U of Tenn College of Vet Medicine says, and I quote from my class notes;
"Dogs are NOT carnivores but omnivores and can do just fine on a well balanced vegetarian diet".
It definately ISNT the healthiest thing for them, in fact its very UNHEALTHY. They're CARNIVORES, not plant eaters. They're bodies are designed to get all they need from raw meat and meaty bones, feeding plant material will put extra strain on their digestive systems, eventually you'll end up with an undernurished unhealthy dog (if the poor thing will eat such a diet in the first place).
The best diet you can offer is known as the prey miodel raw diet. Just make sure you resaearch it thoroughly to make sure you are using the right balance of different meats, etc. After that its quiick, easy and healthy.
If you want a vegetarian of vegan pet, get a rabbit. Dogs do best on a diet that consists of meat. While they can have veggies and other foods, meat is best.
There used to be a vegan pet food made for dogs. Dogs can live and thrive without meat. Cats can't. You can ask your local pet store to see if they can get you a vegan dog food or maybe your vet can get it for you.
You can try Amazon.com and look for vegan food for dogs or vegan cookbooks for dogs. Something like that would help you to prepare food with adequate nutrition for dogs. You need a vegan cook book or meal preparation guide for dogs so that the dog's needs will be met. Dogs have different nutritional needs than people.
Dogs are omnivores. They need protein from meat sources where they couldn't get enough of it from vegetables. Vegetables would not provide enough calories for your dog. Their ancestors eat almost strictly meat so it would make sense their descendents (the dog) would eat meat too.
Talking to your vet about it is honestly the best thing, he'll be able to tell you how to go about it and which foods to get. Personally, I don't think it's a healthy idea, but I'm not going to preach to you about dog health because i'm not a vet.
I like the idea of eating people who need to feel important thus force fads to which they subscribe onto nonconsenting creatures causing long-term harmful effects.
Surrender your dogs to a better home and buy a Chia pet.
if i ever turned vegetarian for any reason, i would still feed it carnivore diet. it is not good for a dog to not get what it needs.
Dogs were evolved to be big meat eaters.
Don`t deprive your dog of its natural food stuff just because YOU would rather it be fed like its a rabbit.
Dogs are carnivores. People have come very close to causing serious health problems for their pets by trying to feed them strictly vegetarian or vegan diets. If you want to do that for yourself, go on ahead. But for an animal that needs to eat meat and depends on you to provide the correct nutrition for it, please do not remove meat from your dog's diet.
Dogs were evolved to be big meat eaters.
Don`t deprive your dog of its natural food stuff just because YOU would rather it be fed like its a rabbit. <
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