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VEGAN PETS / COMPANION ANIMALS
Video explaining why Plant-Based Diets for Dogs are Healthier : What the Research Says by Professor Andrew Knight. His online resource is called Sustainable Pet Food sustainablepetfood.info The Benefits of a Plant Based Diet for Dogs by Dr. Jennifer Coates www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUJPV5kbNM The Vegan Society, PeTa, and Viva all have advice about vegan pets. A PeTa vegan dog food recipe. There are several vegan dog facebook groups including "vegan dogs thriving", "vegan dog nutrition UK" and many other vegan dog sites with info like www.rover.com Two really useful resources are The Veterinary Vegan Network and www.vegepets.info (the latter is an especially well-designed website). One of the best vegan websites is Gentle World which has plenty of useful info about good nutrition for healthy vegan dogs Marcia Katz, a vegan of over 40 years, has had healthy vegan dogs throughout her duration as a vegan. Here is her recipe for vegan dogs and her experience with these dogs. The informative Dog Aware website has an excellent section on diet - it includes info about raw and fresh food. It explains quantities and what to avoid and so on! Here is a video from Vegusto 's YouTube channel, showing a vet's take on vegan dogs and cats based on the peer-reviewed reports. "The health benefits of cats and dogs being on vegan diets." "Mic the Vegan" is one of the more articulate of the YouTube vegan publicists. His articles/topics are well researched and logical. "Are Pets Vegan? Dog-matic Vegans Say No | +What Pets Can You Feed Vegan?!)" Emily (Bite Size Vegan) has made nine well researched 5-minute videos about Pets & Veganism One of those videos specifically deals with what she feeds her rescued bulldog, Ooby, who had a plethora of problems, typical of the breed. Cutting a dogs carbon footprint article from the Irish Times. Here's a video by someone who has switched their dog's diet to vegan. The transition to a vegan diet also seems to have cured the dog's lifelong incontinence problem! Vegepets Website has a lot of info about diet amongst other topics. An interesting site with info about dogs with cancer/tumours. Of course, your dog doesn't know they are vegan! They will probably eat that half-eaten chunk of cow burger that someone discarded on their way home from the pub the night before (if they see it before you steer them away from it). My dog tends to draw the line at eating from carcasses/raw/dead animals which is interesting! This Guardian article from 2010 discusses the ethics of veggie pets. It exposes some of the myths about vegetarian cats. The PDF link is broken but the Wakefield article is shown here. RECIPES & INGREDIENTS A well-researched article about pet food by Gina Shaw. What About Our Pets? by Dr Gina Shaw The Happy Herbivore has recipes for dogs. Vegan Recipes for Dogs | Plant-Based (Facebook) The Daily Treat points out the things that dogs should never eat. What I feed my dog: I'm lucky my dog will eat most things; she didn't like Organic Benovo at first but now prefers it to V-Dog Nuggets and V-Dog Flakes I get the Organic Benovo from Veggie Pets and the V-Dog from Essential Trading. These are all 15kilo bags. I mix all three brands in an 84 litre Really Useful Box which is good enough to keep out any mice! As they are dried goods I don't think the container needs to be food-grade plastic. I would not limit a dog to these commercial packet foods though. They are mixed with other things; I tend to make a batch of food similar to this video recipe of a vegan dog food "stew". Dogs can enjoy/eat fruits (bananas, apples, dates, pears, (water)melon including skin if organic); raw/blended or cooked vegetables (sweet potato, carrot, beetroot, cucumber, cooked cabbage), occasional rice, quinoa, seeds (soaked and sprouted sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds are anti-parasitic, soaked and sprouted lentils and mung beans, chickpeas, sesame seeds, buckwheat seeds), herbs (oregano is said to be especially good for dogs) wheat/barley grass powders, spirulina, turmeric with black pepper, aloe vera juice, apple cider vinegar, nutritional yeast, kelp/seaweed flakes, wheatgrass powder. A blended mix of sweetcorn and soya beans is said to be a perfect protein mix for dogs. Hemp and coconut oil (they need oils/fats). Apple Cider Vinegar helps with digestive disorders (as it does with humans). My dog will get treats like Yarrah biscuits and Healthy Paws Fruit Cookies. A Kong stuffed with food and then frozen can keep a dog happily engaged for ages! Liquorice root and sugar cane sticks are good for the teeth as are vegan chews which are sometimes shaped like crocodiles and toothbrushes! Since being vegan my dog's breath hasn't smelt so bad and her coat is much more healthy and shiny. Occasionally her breath does smell, usually, after she's spotted (and eaten) some discarded junk food before I do - one day she at a whole Scotch Egg! Some chopped parsley in her food soon helps get rid of doggy B.O. Anne Heritage's list of ingredients for nutritional requirements is: Here is a recipe, the base of which is the same but veg can be changed daily and mixed to provide a full range of vitamins needed daily, which are: Calcium, Choline, Chlorine, copper, Folic acid, Iodine, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Phosphorous, Potassium, Riboflavin, Selenium, Sodium, Thiamine, Vit b6, vitamin k, Zinc. All the B vitamins including 12. So, this recipe is for a medium-sized dog (up or downscale for bigger or smaller dogs) One cup of Long grain, organic Brown Rice, Half cup red split lentils/ Either half cup of TVP, or a half cup of Tofu or Quinoa. Half teaspoon of yeast extract. Half teaspoon Turmeric, Half teaspoon dried mint (mixed herbs and oregano are also good for dogs). Put all ingredients in a big pan, and add one mug of the following veg. (use veg from all the groups in food daily). Here are what nutrients are in what vegetables:
If you put a mix of this veg and legumes in with basic recipe daily, i.e. some veg from each group this should cover nutrients necessary. Use organic veg where possible, or you will be feeding loads of toxins like herbicides and pesticides. All ingredients go in a big pan. Cover with plenty of water, bring to boil and simmer for one hour. Add oily seeds after food has been drained and cooled down. _____________________________ An interesting link about dog vision: https://dog-vision.com _____________________________ |
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