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Vegetarian Pets
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Well, exactly. Dogs in the wild are not known to eat plant material out of choice, but through hardship.
Since dogs and cats are carnivores, no.
Exactly, just like when you're at one of those parties that only has Stella, you use it to get drunk, but it is not out of choice
In that case I'm more of a starved and hungry pig...Exactly, just like when you're at one of those parties that only has Stella, you use it to get drunk, but it is not out of choice
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Although I have watched my dog(s) eat excessive amounts of grass so that they could throw up, they don't do it all that often but it suggests that there is a place in their diet for some vegetation much as we would self-medicate for health conditions.
Dogs can eat grass and twigs and stuff when there's fibre missing from their diet.
This actually raises an amusing point that has always bothered me as a child
Dogs eat grass and are, typically, sick.
So, do Dogs -
A) Eat grass to make themselves sick
B) Eat grass because they are ******* stupid.
I can only hope its A
Dogs eat grass to throw up! Grass is a useless plant unless you have been designed to digest it. Cows have 6 stomaches for this.
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I don't mind vegetarian pets but I couldn't eat a whole one 
This actually raises an amusing point that has always bothered me as a child
Dogs eat grass and are, typically, sick.
So, do Dogs -
A) Eat grass to make themselves sick
B) Eat grass because they are ******* stupid.
I can only hope its A
Its anser A.
Dogs do it to induce vomiting if they don't feel well or believe they have eaten something they should not.
Its a behaviour designed to reject possible contaminated foods
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That might be right but I've only ever witnessed my dogs eating grass to throw up.
This actually raises an amusing point that has always bothered me as a child
Dogs eat grass and are, typically, sick.
So, do Dogs -
A) Eat grass to make themselves sick
B) Eat grass because they are ******* stupid.
I can only hope its A
It is A) as far as I'm aware, I'm not denying that dogs can be unspeakably dumb but in this case they seem to be doing it for a reason.
Cheers, I thought I'd said that more or less but maybe not.
Indeed. Dogs and cats don't need both, that's a motto for human health not carnivore health. 'Variety' for carnivores means a mixture of prey animals and different meats. My dogs get a rabbit one day, hare the next, some pigeon, chicken, lamb, beef, pork - always on whole pieces of raw meaty bone (eg rib racks, legs, necks, whole animals).
Surely anyone who has had a dog steal veggies from the bin has seen what comes out the other end? It's generally in one piece, the same as it went in (a bit like our sweetcorn
). Talking of the other end, a dog or cat fed an appropriate diet won't have masses of brown steaming slop. Rather, they should be excreting small dryish pellets of powdered bone, which turns white in the sun. Again, the old "what ever happened to white dog poo?". People stopped feeding their dog proper food, and the poo turned to...um... 
Surely anyone who has had a dog steal veggies from the bin has seen what comes out the other end? It's generally in one piece, the same as it went in (a bit like our sweetcorn
). Talking of the other end, a dog or cat fed an appropriate diet won't have masses of brown steaming slop. Rather, they should be excreting small dryish pellets of powdered bone, which turns white in the sun. Again, the old "what ever happened to white dog poo?". People stopped feeding their dog proper food, and the poo turned to...um... No matter how much you try and spin it, humans keep pets for their own entertainment.
The hypocrisy of pet owners who claim to be non-omnivorous because they wuv the widdle animals is at best laughable.
It's bad enough when they keep herbivorous animals but keeping omnivorous or carnivorous pets and then killing other animals to feed those pets...Are you trying to say that there is zero hypocrisy there?
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Where is the similarity between killing animals and keeping them as pets?
Every non-omnivore that I know claims that it 'isn't natural' to raise animals for food. When I point to their pets and say it 'isn't natural' to enslave them for nothing more than entertainment, they get all flustered.
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I was never arguing against that, but to say that's the only reason is wrong. It's also about giving them a home and a good life, caring for them, giving love and getting love back.
What's the problem with that then?
Well I can't really comment on this properly, firstly because I'm not sure if it's necessary for certain animals to have meat..etc in their diet to be healthy...etc, unlike humans.
Also I'm not sure but aren't the animal components used in most/all pet food...etc just byproducts/waste from the process of farming meat for human consumption?
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So what you actually mean is the few vegetarians you know are hypocritical. Not exactly representative is it?