Vegetarian animals

I was always told by my mother, like me a cat lover, that cats are carnivores and owners shouldn't try to make them anything else. She had an Old English Sheepdog when she was a child who had an omnivore diet, I believe dogs are more adaptable in that respect, but I'm not an expert.

Apparently dogs can live well on a vegetarian diet...but cats can't!!
I'm vegetarian but my own dog isn't...

Well said, absent.

And, just for accuracy, there's no such thing as a vegetarian animal (apart from the human animals). Animals that don't eat other animals are herbivores. The difference is important because vegetarianism is a human choice; being a herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore isn't. Those dietary positions have evolved over millenia.

I'm vegetarian, but I feed my cats (and my husband) meat. I think the cats need it for their good health.

Exactly absent.

I wouldn't volunteer to teach a tiger to eat carrots or attempt to feed tofu to a polar bear.

Messing about with the natural diet of animals certainly was a huge success with cows wasn't it? BSE burger anyone?

I grew up on a sheep farm and one of our ewes just adored a mutton pie...cannibal!

Horses are supposedly vegetarian one of ours loves chicken nuggets and burgers from the Golden Arches ??

Dogs are omnivores; my parents once had a Labrador who stole and ate a cauliflower out of the garden. Cats of all sizes are carnivores and it's cruel to subject them to non-meat diets.

Yes Tangerine my friend who is almost vegan, feeds her cat Felix brand veggie meals and is very militant on meat eating and I wondered if that was the norm.

I wouldn’t think that true carnivores such as cats can eat veggies. Our cat would carefully leave the stomach when consuming a mouse, I always assumed it was because probably contained grain. (Despite the Bible saying that the lion will lay down with the lamb and eat straw.)

Some vegetarians feed their animals on a vegetarian diet. However, my vegetarian friends do not do so.