In this article i will tell you about a dangerous practice of feeding your pets mostly cats and dogs with now popular vegetarian or vegan food.
Many vegans or vegetarians make also their pets vegans or vegetarians even if those poor animals don’t really want that.
They force them to live “ healty life” thinking that they are helping them to live longer or maybe other reason ,but in reality they can do them a lot of harm.If you feed your pet like this you are crippling their body to heal itself.
Dogs any Cats have Teeth designed to eat meat
Your dog has the teeth specially created for the food they are born to digest.They are made to shear flesh of bones and rip.Their molars are pointed and that’s for a reason . Surely not made for eating plants .
Digestion of a Carnivore
The carnivore stomach is short and simple and very acidic.It can move food quickly and deal with pathogens from the fresh meat .For example when cat eat mouse or when dog is in the wild and eats whole pray.
For break down fruit and vegetables they need more time because their digestive tract is not that complex.They tend to masticate their food many times, even the carnivores don’t engage in chewing at all.They rip their food into peaces and get them into their bellies.
The veggies and plants ,seeds and grains simply travel through your pets stomach because it can’t be break down ,just pass out as waste. Also don’t have enzymes in the saliva to break down of carbs and starches in the diet .Your dog or cat doesn’t produce cellulase to break down fibrous plant cell walls .The pancreas need to produce enough amylase and work over time,also produce lipase and proteases to digest fats and proteins.Pets do not produce enough amylase to process the starch. Feeding a 100% plant can stress the pancreas compromising its ability to function normally. They also don’t produce the strains of gut bacteria necessary to break down cellulose.
It’s true that wild dogs and cats sometimes eats grass, berries and seasonally plants specially if they don’t have anything else to eat ,they are not so strict carnivores ,but their intake of plant based food is not more then 20% of diet. Cats are strict carnivores ,they are born predators.
The reasearch show that dog can develop over time ability to digest starch when they are constantly fed with grain based food .They can up regulate amylase production.
But their body's weren’t made to live this way .people sometimes out of too much love make them pets live horrible way all because their private frustrations.One of the things is when they put their pets in small flats ,but that’s another topic.
Writen by Imrana Sljivo DVM
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