Going Against Nature.

So here I am again. I got into a nice argument with the admin of a vegan page on FaceBook that I used to really like when they posted and endorsed vegan dog and cat food. This is one of the things that makes most people hate vegans, and in this case, I can't say I blame them.

I've always been against forcing meat-eating pets into vegans. There's nothing right at all about it. I am veg myself but I would never ever try and make my meat-eating pets into vegans. There are several reasons why I see that as both wrong and cruel to the animal.

First of all, time, nature, and breeding evolved our meat-eating pets to be that way. Dogs were bred down from carnivorous wolves. Cats were bred down from carnivorous panthers. Ferrets were bred down from carnivorous weasels. All of the them are structurally and anatomically designed to ingest and digest meat. They need it to be healthy.

People who say "Well dogs are omnivores!" make me sick. Yes they are omnivorous, but they elect to eat meat, not lettuce.  My favorite thing to tell me people when they give me this stupid argument is this: "Take a puppy, raise it on your vegan food or vegan kibble for it's whole life, now at say twelve years old turn the dog loose as if making it a stray, I guarantee that dog is going to scavenge every single time for meat and not salad." No dog, cat, or ferret is ever going to willingly be vegan be choice.

That leads me to reason number two why trying to 'veganize' animals pisses me off. Vegans are all about animals having their rights and choices. When you force a meat-eating animal to be a vegan you're taking away it's rights and it's choice to eat what nature intended it to eat. It's force. Forcing your human diet onto an animal that, if given it's own way, would never ever choose to eat. It's no different than forcing a tiger to balance on a ball with a whip or a dolphin to jump through flaming hoops. Either way it's still force. They force tricks, vegans are forcing their diet. Same exact thing. That's exactly the NON-vegan non-compassionate thing to do.

You wouldn't force feed lettuce to an owl, or a lion, or a falcon... so why dogs, cats, and ferrets? It's because for a lot of vegans their thought process is the only right thought process. The whole 'I am cruelty free so my animals must be exactly as I am'.  It's a control thing. Here's a newsflash for those people: Your animals don't give a shit about cruelty free, vegan, or what you think. They go by instinct and what nature and evolution created them to be, which is creatures that, in a human-less world would would catch and kill, to eat meat. They want to eat meat because that's how evolution made them, regardless of your vegan mindset.

It's basically the same as saying naturally vegetarian animals such as cows, goats, horses, and gerbils should be fed meat... It's stupid and it's inhumane.

If you are a vegan and you must have a vegan animal than do not get a dog, cat, or ferret. Don't try and change nature's creation to follow your lifestyle choices. Get a parrot, or a gerbil, or a goat, or a rabbit or guinea pig. Get a pet that is already vegan and lives that way by choice and stop trying to change the way nature intended things to be.