General Chat

I'm a vegetarian, but fed the cat meat....I don;t like the idea of killing an animal for me to eat, but its my choice....I don't feed the kids veggie either...if i make spag bol or something I'll use veggie mince or quorn, and everyyone eats it, but for example tonight, they're all having chops and chips....I'll eat something else. My daughter whose 5 knows I'm veggie and don't eat meat and fish, but she loves makerel and chicken, so will opt for what her daddy eats rather than my version! It never occured to me to give the cat anything other than normal cat food.....cats are carnivores.....so she needed to have meat....! imo anyway!

Rose...vegetarian... former cat and dog owner...agreeing entirely with Eldrick's thesis :)

btw I had a dog (border collie) who was the runt of the litter...all his healthier siblings and parents were fed by owner on a totally veggie diet...caused all sorts of problems, and they all died younger than mine, mine was fed on varied meat diet though he also had a partiality to raw sprouts lol..

Euww Yuk!....who started this thread anyway?

Goes off to ponder on something else......knitting I think......nope, can't do that. someone is bound to tell me how the sheep lost their wool :-)))


Seriously....very interesting posts.....have learned a lot.....albeit not to eat pet food :-)

It's best to put some garlic and herbs in if you do have to :-)

Wool is safe. As long as you don't mind the ticks and lice and clingons :-)

Gawd Eldrick and thrice yuk!! My OH had pork scratchings at the weekend...wonder how many pimples were on that skin!!

Cant eat fish alergic to it, intolerances with most meats so more or less vegetarian, do note neighbours cat loves the oats we put out for the birds.
and next door's dog loves carrotts.
But whilst you can feed dogs cat food cats ont do very well over a time with dog food, something to do with the length of bowel being very short in cats

Well, my dog loves some veg - anything red mainly - tomatoes, peppers, strawberries ... but generally he's fed on a mixture of tinned dog food and dry "complete" dog food.

Couldn't feed him on veg all the time as it makes him f*rt something chronic! Bad enough with the old man doing that!

Jill

p.s. I'm not a vegetarian but don't eat much meat anyway.

My dad got a cat when I was 6.
She was fed mainly on lights (brains), liver and fish that she 'caught'.
She used to go down to the harbour (we lived in Mevagissey) when the trawlers came in, and would be thrown a fish, which she would bring home to be cooked!
The fish was boiled and left, in the saucepan, to be cooled.
We'd know when it was cool enough to eat - we'd hear the 'clank' as the cat removed the saucepan lid!

Talk about making an animal work for her food!! LOL

The cat caught cat flu when she was 16 - and survived it.
She was 17 when my sister had a baby, so the cat moved down the road to live with an elderly couple. She was over 20 when she died!