Our cats eat this, our older cat became allergic to meat protein and almost died, vet suggested hydrolyzed protein food which he was still allergic to so last resort was vegan cat food, 6 years later he’s still going strong at 17 years old. We had just got another cat around the time we switched him to the vegan food, she won’t eat anything other than that benevo food. My partner and I went vegan not long after that. According to most people our cats are zombies or something 🙄
The whole obligate carnivore bs only works if the cats are wild, domestic cats esp indoor cats diet are mostly cooked processed foods with plant based fillers and added taurine/vitamins to make up for the nutrients lost due to processing/cooking… Don’t often see obligate carnivores cooking their food and chugging multivitamins.
I am sorry to hear that, I’m glad your cats are okay. Your cats eat quite some additives and processed food. At least they’re doing well, that’s the important part.
Thank you, yes they both get regular checks now for blood/pee. The older one is understandably a lot happier his entire digestive tract/spleen aren’t massively inflamed, we get a lot more cuddles now 😻
In hind sight this testing is something we should have been doing even before they went on the plant based food but i was always taught that cat is just an animal not a person so don’t treat them the same (grew up on a farm). Any change in diet for a person/pet/animal friend should be approached with caution and monitored.
Cats do not have the long digestive tracts of ruminants to efficiently ferment raw starch or fiber, but that doesn’t mean they cannot digest plant matter at all. It also does not mean they are unable to obtain any nutrients from plants or from fiber.
I’m pretty sure cats do not have a strong enough digestive system for a plant based diet. I’d be interesting to see what they fed them
https://www.benevo.com/
Our cats eat this, our older cat became allergic to meat protein and almost died, vet suggested hydrolyzed protein food which he was still allergic to so last resort was vegan cat food, 6 years later he’s still going strong at 17 years old. We had just got another cat around the time we switched him to the vegan food, she won’t eat anything other than that benevo food. My partner and I went vegan not long after that. According to most people our cats are zombies or something 🙄
The whole obligate carnivore bs only works if the cats are wild, domestic cats esp indoor cats diet are mostly cooked processed foods with plant based fillers and added taurine/vitamins to make up for the nutrients lost due to processing/cooking… Don’t often see obligate carnivores cooking their food and chugging multivitamins.
I am sorry to hear that, I’m glad your cats are okay. Your cats eat quite some additives and processed food. At least they’re doing well, that’s the important part.
Thank you, yes they both get regular checks now for blood/pee. The older one is understandably a lot happier his entire digestive tract/spleen aren’t massively inflamed, we get a lot more cuddles now 😻
In hind sight this testing is something we should have been doing even before they went on the plant based food but i was always taught that cat is just an animal not a person so don’t treat them the same (grew up on a farm). Any change in diet for a person/pet/animal friend should be approached with caution and monitored.
How’d you manage to get a cat allergic to meat? I know only one mechanism for that
https://rawfedandnerdy.com/what-is-an-obligate-carnivore
True, but just read a 3rd grade biology textbook. you’ll see how plant eating animals usually look fatter with how much more bowels they have.
They work the same (mostly), but you just need more of it