Look at What My Kitty was up to Last Night

[dabvu2498]

You certainly didn't write that very well. You wrote that your dog had a grain allergy and in the following sentence you said your vet recommended a vegetarian dog food

I'll be darned... I'm not perfect.

[RedEye]

I can think of a more invasive specie.

Tribbles?

[Rojo]

Tribbles?

Nerds?

[RedEye]

Nerds?

Okay, I missed that reference, unless it is to candy. Or to this guy:

[SunDeck]

Whether or not an animal can live as a vegetarian is a little different from whether it's a kind thing to do to an animal.

My feeling is if you have a problem with dog food containing meat, maybe just don't get a dog.

Well I got a dog from a shelter, turns out when she ate food with meat in it, she got a skin condition...like mange but not as severe. Hot spots all over her body. We tried everything from Alpo to Eukenuba, to some specially formulated, pinko grass fed beef and chicken mix...still the hotspots. Then we went with the artisan wild caught Coho formulation; no dice. The vet said to try vegetarian food and guess what? The girl's healthy as can be, now.
I'm not a vet or a dietician, but maybe it's about protein, not whether it's derived from meat.

[Redsfaithful]

Well I got a dog from a shelter, turns out when she ate food with meat in it, she got a skin condition...like mange but not as severe. Hot spots all over her body. We tried everything from Alpo to Eukenuba, to some specially formulated, pinko grass fed beef and chicken mix...still the hotspots. Then we went with the artisan wild caught Coho formulation; no dice. The vet said to try vegetarian food and guess what? The girl's healthy as can be, now.
I'm not a vet or a dietician, but maybe it's about protein, not whether it's derived from meat.

Probably going to be exceptions to almost anything, I should have said in general. In general, dogs evolved to eat meat.

[marcshoe]

Tribbles?

Cubs fans.

[SunDeck]

Probably going to be exceptions to almost anything, I should have said in general. In general, dogs evolved to eat meat.

I thought dogs evolved to eat what humans cast off, in exchange for their watchfulness, willingness to do work and companionship.

This article provides some interesting insight into their diet.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/...-domestication

[BernieCarbo]

That's very interesting. In fact, when I grew up people just fed table scraps to the dogs, and I didn't even know you could buy dog food. The dogs didn't suffer any at all for it, and lived good long lives just the same.