do any of you have vegan pets? id love my dog to go vegan but for an economy size dogfood bag its over 70$!!! Im poor and in college, the kind i buy now is 12.49
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My dog (a 3-year-old black lab mix) is vegetarian, but not vegan (due to the lack of vegan dog treats around my area). When I first got her as a puppy, I was vegetarian, but she ate a regular popular brand of puppy food
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We don't have any companion animals in our house, but I know that veganpets exists because the issue is raised here and there in this community, and may be a good resource for helping you make your decisions.
he just wants to play and be loved. er... that's your assumptions; and while it tells us a lot about what you want, it tells us pretty much nothing about dogs -- as you point out, that's what you think, not what the dog thinks. it's just as likely, maybe more-so, that the dog wants to do problem-solving work within a clearly defined pack structure. just because many humans in-this-culture-at-this-time have a strong aversion to anything arbitrarily labelled as 'work' doesn't mean that that's true even of other humans, let-alone members of another species. dogs don't actually like spending all their time goofing off and being fussed over, for the most part. they get bored and neurotic (as do humans under the same conditions, arguably, but that's a whole other issue). a well-trained, well-treated working dog has challenging things to do that fit well with its instincts and abilities, and that keep it engaged, interested, and occupied -- and if its human's not a shithead, it gets the added reward of almost
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probably true.
he just wants to play and be loved.
er... that's your assumptions; and while it tells us a lot about what you want, it tells us pretty much nothing about dogs -- as you point out, that's what you think, not what the dog thinks. it's just as likely, maybe more-so, that the dog wants to do problem-solving work within a clearly defined pack structure.
just because many humans in-this-culture-at-this-time have a strong aversion to anything arbitrarily labelled as 'work' doesn't mean that that's true even of other humans, let-alone members of another species. dogs don't actually like spending all their time goofing off and being fussed over, for the most part. they get bored and neurotic (as do humans under the same conditions, arguably, but that's a whole other issue). a well-trained, well-treated working dog has challenging things to do that fit well with its instincts and abilities, and that keep it engaged, interested, and occupied -- and if its human's not a shithead, it gets the added reward of almost ( ... )
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Look into Natural Balance Vegan kibble. The 5 lb bags I get the rats run about 12 dollars. The bigger bags work out to be less per lb.
http://www.animalworldnetwork.com/nabavefoford.html
About 40 bucks for 30 lbs. Not bad.
You can get it at Petco, etc.
If you feed cheap food it costs you more in the long run with vet bills. Food is so important!
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