Vegetarian dog food

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My suggestion would be to hunt on the net for dogs and diet. I believe that dogs can be vegetarian, however, do the search to be sure but you really need to know what the parameters are. Then you can just google "vegetarian pet foods" and look at the various ones, their ingredients, and locations where you can get them. You might want to see if the pet food you are contemplating tests on dogs and what kind of testing...In house testing can be fraught with abuses and the animals lives not real good. Or tests can be conducted by using families that have dogs that participate in the testing...usually that is just for palatability. For one thing the standards are already set and they do not need to keep pets in labs. As long as they show that they meet the standards of adequate nutrition they don't have to do testing. Computer programs do that. Iams got into a lot of hot water as they were cutting huge chunks of flesh out of dogs (hips) to determine its makeup...I am not exactly sure what on earth they were doing. It is stopped now, but they are still suffering the consequences...you can go to www.peta.org and find the pet food site and maybe get some ideas there and also see what it was that Iams was doing. There was an enormous boycott of the brand and publicity which made them sit up and take notice. It would be cool if you tell us what it is that you find so that others might be able to use the information. Otherwise we are continually reinventing the wheel. If you include the URL of the sites that gave you terrific info that would be great too.

linda

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Jonnie Hellens

 

I have a large dog and would like to change him to vegetarian food, but have heard that they really aren't supposed to be vegetarian. He's 12 yo and is only now showing some of his age, but doing even better than I am! He's always had a sensitive stomach, so I have to watch what I feed him otherwise I'm cleaning something off the carpet from one end or the other (If I can't get the door and gate open fast enuf). He loves my food though and used to eat anything. Now he's gotten picky, he'll eat oranges, but not potatoes anymore, etc. Anyone have a recommendation for vegetarian dog food for him? And where would I find it?