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I’m an experienced cat and dog veterinarian with a special interest in vegetarian companion animal diets. Following extensive research, including a review of the relevant biomedical literature, I’ve created this website to assist all who wish to gain a sounder understanding of the health and nutritional issues associated with meat-based and vegetarian companion animal diets. Included here are:
I hope you enjoy my site. If you think this information deserves a wider audience, please consider distributing the flyer, leaflet or article. Thank you for visiting.
- Can cats go vegetarian? What about dogs?
- How unnatural is it? Are commercial meat-based diets natural?
- Are there any risks to health, and how can these be minimised?
- Are there any benefits for health?
I’m an experienced cat and dog veterinarian with a special interest in vegetarian companion animal diets. Following extensive research, including a review of the relevant biomedical literature, I’ve created this website to assist all who wish to gain a sounder understanding of the health and nutritional issues associated with meat-based and vegetarian companion animal diets. Included here are:
- detailed summaries of the health and nutritional implications of feeding both meat-based and vegetarian companion animal diets;
- advice on smoothly transitioning cats and dogs onto vegetarian diets;
- advice on safeguarding the health of vegetarian animals – particularly cats;
- short summaries of all of the above (here and here);
- links to suppliers of vegetarian pet foods and nutritional supplements.
I hope you enjoy my site. If you think this information deserves a wider audience, please consider distributing the flyer, leaflet or article. Thank you for visiting.
Acknowledgements
James Peden, author of Vegetarian Cats & Dogs (1999), literally spent months researching numerous invaluable references for the articles on this website. I am particularly grateful to James, and also to Jed Gillen, author of Obligate Carnivore (2003), for their invaluable assistance. Links to their books are here. I’m also grateful to the other veterinarians who provided endorsements, and to Lifescape Magazine for allowing republication of my 2008 article on vegetarian companion animal diets.