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I have raised quite a number of dogs and cats vegan with raw food added in at a gradual rate. I don't give them any meat. Ideally, I started them young, just after weaning. In some cases though I have adopted older critters and even some that were going to be put down for terminal illnesses. In all cases they adapted just fine. I have a theory that gradually one can evolve these critters to be vegan raw food beings. I always wanted to be a part of a collective project like a nonprofit or something similar where we could really give the focus towards this evolution "experiment". I believe it would take a few generations to achieve this in most cases. It can also add up as a significant expenditure on the budget, at least as I have found it to be in my experiences.
Another notable factor was I supplemented them with a specially formulated for pets herbal extracts in concentrate liquid form. I was doing an herbal pet business and had a full line of products and was friend and neighbor to the manufacturing plant. These extracts contained all the necessary elements known to be needed vitamins and minerals in easy to assimilate herbal formulations.
Cats are quite different in their dietary needs than dogs and some adjustments and special attention seems to be needed. Their transition has a longer way to go than the canines it seems.
I always grow too many sprouts and don't always want to give the time to make breads, cheeses, special dishes, etc. takes up too much of my time and food is a small part of my lifepath and I don't like to involve too much of a day with food in general. So I heat the extra sprouts into the critters vegan dishes that I cook on the stove and get them used to uncooked sprouts and veges in their dish. Over time they have a good association with them and I can keep adding more and more raw to their meals as time goes on.
My ideas on full adaptation and transition of a species have always been thwarted by factors like -critter gets hit by car, or,-critter goes in heat and neighborhood mutts are coming around haunting, or, we needed to move to a new area, and variables such as so over the years I have worked with a number of cats and dogs in this direction but never past the second generation.
I would encourage a certification to exist where owners could work with these practices, vegan/raw food for example, accupuncture and chakra work for examples, are other subjects of itself for raising the species in these directions. I think it would be neat though if someone had a certified say, vegan, dog and didn't want to keep lots of puppies but wanted to make sure that the puppies continued to be vegan and maybe one day, it would be common to find a vegan breeder to couple with the vegan female and have full vegan pups. Wouldn't that be neat...
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