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December 17, 2007
Vegetarian Pets
Irony is easy to find in the world of moonbattery, but this takes the prize: moonbats have been abusing animals by forcing their dogs and cats to share their vegetarian diet.
Rosslyn Smith reports:
A search on the term 'vegetarian diet cats' will bring up many sites that urge people to place their "companion animals" on vegetarian and vegan diets. Some even claim such an action will lengthen the animals' lives. Unfortunately cats will sicken, can go permanently blind and may even die on such fare unless a great deal of care is taken to provide additional nutrients, particularly vitamin A, which cats cannot synthesize from carotene as people and dogs do, taurine and arachidonic acid.
Dogs are more omnivorous by design than cats, so they are less likely to become ill from misguided owners who try to turn them into vegetarians. That does not mean that many dogs like the idea, however. The vegetarians on the other side of my valley tried to feed their dogs such a diet only to find their springer spaniel, Livy, was always inviting herself over to share my dog Clare's supper. Livy would also hang out around the local campground where she was known to retrieve entire chickens and steaks off of the grills.
Cats and dogs, like people, were designed to eat meat. That's why we have incisors.
Next moonbats will try to turn our cars into vegetarians by asking us to put vegetable products in our gas tanks. Okay, maybe that would be too crazy.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 17, 2007 11:37 AM
Comments
A vegetarian diet is a slow way to kill a dog and a fast way to kill a cat. The only effect on humans seems to be dementia coupled with egomania.
Posted by: V the K at December 17, 2007 12:00 PM
I knew a moonbat back in college who was doing that to her cat. We had an argument about it, and I didn't talk to her much after that, so I don't know how long the cat lasted.
Posted by: forest at December 17, 2007 1:01 PM
Let's not forget those canine teeth that securely hold the meat while the incisors do their business.
Posted by: IOpian at December 17, 2007 1:15 PM
If a cat or dog is in the wild, what will it eat? I can guarantee it won't be seeking out cabbage or green beans.
Posted by: Pam at December 17, 2007 2:23 PM
There's no end to the retardation of liberals. Vegetarian diets for pets...what a concept.
Posted by: skh.pcola at December 17, 2007 5:42 PM
