In a vegetarian world how would you care for your carnivore pets?!


Question: In a vegetarian world how would you care for your carnivore pets?
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I don't think setting domesticated animals free would be a good idea. They wouldn't know how to fend for themselves and many would die, get killed, or turn feral. I think we, as humans, have an obligation to care for these animals. They have been domesticated for millenia. The question is a good one for which, for now, there is no good answer. Animals are not human and cannot make a choice of whether or not to eat other animals. They just do it. We cannot go on the assumption that we can control and modify their diets to the extent that they will not prey on each other or to the extent that we will cause them nutritional deficiency by forcing a diet modification upon them.

Their bodies need what they need and we would do them irrepairable harm by forcing our choices on them. I have pets and I love them, but I'm not going to kill them based upon the notion that they should not eat meat or other animals when that is what they are designed to do. That would be cruelty of the worst kind- a slow and undeserved death.

So, my answer to you is that for now, we have no good answer,



I have never heard a vegan/vegetarian propose that the entire world should quit eating meat, and certainly not the carnivores. As a vegetarian living with four cats I understand that they are obligate carnivores and also born hunters. I can make the choice to meet my nutritional needs with alternate sources of food than animal flesh-they cannot.
As for livestock-yes, they could be turned loose. Large scale livestock operations do just that, let the animals forage most of the time. Hence the rancher's prejudice against carnivores, the tradition of the roundup, etc.



Bears hunt salmon. Wolves hunt deer. Snakes hunt vermin. Bats hunt bugs.

If everything ate only vegetation, the planet would be over-populated and in famine. (This is barring the fact that the planet is out of balance right now in general.)

Humans were designed to forage as much as possible, eating bugs and vegetation, until we came across something to hunt. The bodies natural disposition to stress is so that we may hunt our food efficiently, eat as much as we can to store nutrients, and share it with our clan.

Our bodies are designed to need meat. So are many other species bodies.

Short answer: If it's a carnivore, give it meat or give it away.



As a vet, a vegetarian an accidental farmer ( I am a soft touch for strays, rescues and anything else that ends up in my surgery ) and someone who has a firm grasp of realism, I feed all my animals food that is appropriate to them. Along with standard dry food for my dogs and cats, they get bones and offcuts from my local butcher who incidentally has his own farm so I know exactly how his animals are treated. My chickens and geese get anything from kitchen scraps to the worms they scratch for themselves to porridge oats.
Whereas I have a choice to be vegetarian, my animals have completely different needs and wants, I give them what they need and what keeps them healthy strong and happy.
And yes, I do realise there are specially made, expensive and highly processed vegan foods available for domestic pets. However I choose to go along with nature on this one.

Life



It's simple, if you have a carnivorous pet, like a cat, then you feed it meat.
If you have an herbivore pet then you feed it pellets, specialty pet food, etc.
It's actually very UN-vegetarian/vegan of someone to sacrifice their own pets health because of their personal beliefs. Humans can choose, animals cannot. Humans CAN be vegans, some animals cannot (for long in good health anyway).

Vegan



If an animal is designed for eating meat, have them eat meat. It is the NATURAL thing to do.

Just get the meat responsibly- not in packaged dog food, not from grocery stores, but make your own from meat you buy from a small family-owned farm, where you are aware how the animals are being treated.



A vegeterian person must think about the pet's needs. They have to eat meat, protein and things like that, and their owner has to understand that. Being vegetarian is an personal option, not something that you just impose to other people. Or pets.



let them be what they are

it may be 'cruel' to set them free from zoos or whatever but thats still how it was meant to be
it was cruel to cage them, so it cant then be also 'cruel' to set them free, its just correcting something
and thas not gonna be easy, never is



tyler is exactly right...in your phony veggie world, if you can't provide your pets with their natural source of food, then that's animal abuse...and you are doing an injustice to animals that you oppress.



What exactly is a "vegetarian world"? Lots of animals are carnivores, not just pets.



That's what I was wondering too. :/ Hopefully by then they'll have meat that comes from a lab...



Buy them cat food



One thing I wouldn't do is kill them and eat them........



dere r pet foods sold seperately...don't u know???omg!!!



set them free.




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