Pets in the wild

[Guest guest]

Hello,

 

At 08:22 AM 6/3/03 -0700, you wrote:

>Cats and dogs in the wild eat meat ( & sometimes plants). We should not be

>forcing our own diet on them for moral or whatever other personal reasons.

>It goes against nature. Period.

 

I'm certainly not taking it personally since I still haven't decided about

feeding my dogs a vegetarian diet. In other words I still feed them food

that has meat in it. (Although I guess I better go investigate IAMS and

possibly Eukanuba too in the very near future, why do companies make

my life so difficult (or why do I?)?)

 

Anyway, the point of this email. Here's a silly question. Don't humans

eat meat and plants in the wild? Actually, if memory serves, humans

will eat anything they can find in the wild in order to survive. I'm not

100% convinced your argument is totally legitimate. My dogs are

not in the wild. Laying on the carpet or on the couch with the air

conditioning on is, um, a fair distance from the wild. ;<)

 

Okay, please don't take this in a bad way. I'm just still laughing

about the dogs with which I am cohabiting being in a " wild "

environment. We don't even have more than a couple of parties

a year. Gee.

 

Gary

[Guest guest]

I agree that it goes against nature NOT to feed them meat. I am,

however, a moral vegetarian and can understand why someone who

doesn't want to feed him/herself meat would not want to feed the

animals meat either. My best suggestion is that if one does not want

to feed animals meat when they naturally eat it and need it, then

that person should keep naturally vegetarian animals and not keep

cats and dogs.

 

 

> At 08:22 AM 6/3/03 -0700, you wrote:

> >Cats and dogs in the wild eat meat ( & sometimes plants). We

should not be

> >forcing our own diet on them for moral or whatever other personal

reasons.

> >It goes against nature. Period.