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To: Judith Anne
What dreadful person would feed a dog anything but meat?

Our dog loves carrots. I can see number of ways in which these are good for him and since a vet concurs, I don't think we are dreadful people.

77 posted on 08/20/2009 4:36:24 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded
The grandkids feed him green beans, carrots, peas, okra, any veggie they would currently not care for.

Mastiffs will truly eat nearly anything. I keep him away from most fruit, as grapes (and raisins) are poisonous to dogs. He eats a bite or two of grass in the yard.

But when he is fed, twice a day, it's meat.

When they are puppies, they will eat gravel/small rocks, so you have to watch out for that.

Honestly, this was a joke, at least it started out that way. When did we get so serious about the diet of dogs? As I said, he likes cheap burgers. Once a month or so, he gets them for treats.

78 posted on 08/20/2009 4:54:01 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Drill here! Drill NOW! Defund the EPA!)
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To: wideminded; Judith Anne

Some dogs can be partial to some veggies and even fruit, but to put a carnivorous animal on an exclusively vegan diet disregarding genetics, millenia of meat and carrion consumption and the dog’s health is a fairly vainglorious act in an ignorant albeit well meaning for a contemporary personal set of social mores.

“Oh, my dog’s a vegan, isn’t that so cool”.


88 posted on 08/21/2009 11:47:56 AM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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