Alright, I'm ready to discuss dogs that are put on vegan diets now. And by "discuss" I mean "show you how fucking malnourished and miserable these poor creatures are because their owners are batshit insane."
Meet Maggie. Maggie is a dog. Maggie also has an owner that feeds her nothing but vegan crap and deprives her of protein. Maggie looks pretty malnourished; look at how dull her coat is and how hollow her eyes are. She looks like a gust of wind could knock her over.
Maggie's owner was run off of Tumblr because she's a fucking animal abusing whack-job who was forcing her ideology onto a creature that's been biologically hardwired to eat meat. I hope to God that poor Maggie's been rescued from what is obviously an abusive home.
I'll say this: Yes, dogs can be healthy on a
vegetarian (not vegan) diet as long as it’s balanced and they’re getting enough protein, but honestly this should only be done for
health reasons, as in the dog’s vet recommends it for whatever reason. However, it's a very bad idea to place dogs on an all vegan/vegetarian diet when they're perfectly capable of eating and digesting meat. As someone in the linked post explained:
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And while dogs may not be obligate carnivores like cats, they DO NOT HAVE A DIGESTIVE TRACT SUITED FOR A VEGAN OR VEGETARIAN DIET ALONE. Dogs, like wolves, have adapted to eat certain plant products when meat is scarce. They do this only in rare instances, and only when nothing else is available. Just because they are capable of eating small amounts of plant foods doesn’t mean they can thrive on a diet consisting of that and that alone. In fact, a dog’s intestine is too short to fully-process a proper range of nutrients obtained from your sweet potato and rice dish.
You are literally robbing your pet of important nutrients, leaving him malnourished and susceptible to bacterial infestations and disease."
Vegans starving their allegedly “beloved” pets to death is animal abuse. Preaching all day about protecting animals like cows and chickens and then turning around and starving your dog or cat is the epitome of hypocrisy. It’s so fucking hypocritical it makes me want to vomit. I don't care if these people want to only eat fruits and vegetables. I don't even care if they scream at me for liking cheeseburgers because I can just roll my eyes and forget about it two minutes later.
I
do care when militant vegans think that they know better than God/Mother Nature/whatever and decide to force their ideologies onto animals that need meat to function and be healthy. I
do care when these people ignore literally all scientific evidence and veterinary advice and continue to malnourish their pets (it's even worse when they pull out bullshit "proof" from vegan websites,
especially ones that sell vegan dog/cat food). I
do care when these people preach from sunup to sundown to everyone who will listen about animal rights, but then neglect and starve the animals that depend on them for survival. I
do care when these fucking idiots insist on undoing thousands and thousands of years of evolution instead of getting a rabbit or a guinea pig or a hamster.
tl;dr- Yeah, I just wrote a lot, but I'm not going to apologize for being super passionate about animal welfare.