In the Pet Bizz..
I learned a lot about pet food and what companies like to tell people about their pet food. Based on this, I have an easy to follow guideline on how to pick a food for your animal (focusing mainly on dogs and cats).
Rule #1
Read a friggen book about your breed. It's good to know what the hell kind of animal you have before you start shoveling things down its throat. Books are a handy thing to have around in case you forget if Spot is prone to a sensitive stomach, allergies, etc.
Rule#2
Do NOT buy your food from a grocery store. While a $10 bag of dog food might look too good to pass up when compared to a typical $20-$30 bag of 'premium' food, try to remember why you don't live on Ramen Noodles despite them being 20 cents a pack; they're not very good for you. Your steak isn't $1.99 per pound for nothing, you know. Quality meat costs money, and that's why most dog and cat foods in a pet store cost so much.
Rule #3
Ask your vet. They went to school for a reason.
The reason for this little guideline is because I was searching through some messageboards and found myself reading about vegans and their pets. Honestly, I don't think vegans should HAVE pets, since they're most likely to be PeTA freaks, and owning a pet would violate their faith or something. Anyway, vegans often try to feed their dogs vegan diets.
Lentils and tofu for all!
(What the fuck is a lentil, again?)
Rule #1
Read a friggen book about your breed. It's good to know what the hell kind of animal you have before you start shoveling things down its throat. Books are a handy thing to have around in case you forget if Spot is prone to a sensitive stomach, allergies, etc.
Rule#2
Do NOT buy your food from a grocery store. While a $10 bag of dog food might look too good to pass up when compared to a typical $20-$30 bag of 'premium' food, try to remember why you don't live on Ramen Noodles despite them being 20 cents a pack; they're not very good for you. Your steak isn't $1.99 per pound for nothing, you know. Quality meat costs money, and that's why most dog and cat foods in a pet store cost so much.
Rule #3
Ask your vet. They went to school for a reason.
The reason for this little guideline is because I was searching through some messageboards and found myself reading about vegans and their pets. Honestly, I don't think vegans should HAVE pets, since they're most likely to be PeTA freaks, and owning a pet would violate their faith or something. Anyway, vegans often try to feed their dogs vegan diets.
Lentils and tofu for all!
(What the fuck is a lentil, again?)
posted by Protagonist at 8:45 AM
2 Comments:
I remember finding a thread about 'vegan pets' once. This person was saying something about how their mother wanted a cat, but she was vegan due to some religion or something, and she didn't want the cat to eat meat either.
The replies were pretty much, "Your mother shouldn't get a cat if she can't keep from forcing her dietary habits onto it. If she can't do that, then she can't take care of it properly."
The pet food industry is attrocious. On any given day every thing you can imagine and things unthinkable are "rendered" into the unregulated pet food industry. Unthinkable as euthinized animals from the pound with the drug still in them. cancered cattle and other livestock.. I have a vegan dog.. he rarely gets actual meat and never dog food.
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