What do you feed your pets?

[trick-r-treat]

Just wondering - what are some of the best products to feed to your cats and dogs that do not contain meat products, and are they hard to find?

[Serenity]

You mean some people actually have pets that eat pet food? Say it ain't so. :p Mine are so spoiled they turn their noses up at it and only eat what we do, which can't be good for them. Maybe I'll give the veggie ones a try and see if they like that. :)

[justjoy]

There are organic feeds available. I personally have only birds, so they eat vegetarian naturally!

[Green-Moo]

I wouldn't feed my cats and dogs vegetarian foods as I don't think it's natural for them to eat vegetarian. Both have dried foods, so it doesn't bother me to serve it.

[oneLove]

You would be making a dog very sick if you gave him/her a veggie diet. Dogs need protein, and lots of it. The cheapest junk dog food you can buy at a grocery store is probably mostly veggie (wheat/corn). Instead you should be buying high quality, high protein food. Natures Variety Instinct is very good.

[st_hart]

You don't feed your dogs and cats vegetarian food. They are carnivorous. It's their nature to eat meat. We are not born to eat meat. Our physiologycal structure and bodily functions are quite different with carnivore's. So, only human need to be back to their nature, to be vegetarian.

[urs1]

First of all, we are absolutely designed to eat meat. Deal with it and move on. Secondly, like humans, dogs and cats are omnivores. Which means that they can eat both. Being a vegetarian is no more natural or unnatural than eating meat. But that attitude contributes to a great many anti-vegetarian attitudes.

[urs1]

Oh and my dogs eat pretty much what I eat along with about a packet of moist kibble a week. I have always done this and the average lifespan of my animals is 22 so I must be doing something right.

[ladybird]

i give pedigree to my shaky( two year old dog) i think this is the best food supplement for dogs.

[Lyndsey]

I wouldn't feed my cats and dogs vegetarian foods as I don't think it's natural for them to eat vegetarian. Both have dried foods, so it doesn't bother me to serve it.

Over and over again, studies say that cats are obligate carnivores. Their digestive tract is not made the same way as a herbivore's. We can choose either food group, but they are constructed to eat meat. There is no crime in that. They don't kill for personal vendettas, and if nature were left to itself, they would help keep certain other animal popualtions, such as rats, in balance. Things are made to fit together that way.

[atula]

A with others..I agree...dogs and cats can't be made to become vegetarian....we humans can switch over to whatever we wish and we do have the ability to eat antything veg or non-veg...but dogs and cats have been built up in a way that they need their meat and so we should provide them with that....