Straight Up Vegan – a new online show for vegan viewers – features its first guest, Dr. Sarah Dodd. Dr. Dodd is a practicing veterinarian and a PhD student at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She specializes in comparative nutrition of companion animals, with a strong focus on plant-based diets. This blog post consists of a series of questions and answers from this interview, on the topic of vegan pet nutrition. To introduce this topic, there are heated online conversations on the subject of vegan cats, where people offer different opinions. Overall, there is a lot of confusion on this subject, which results from the fact that many people don’t understand the science behind it. There are basically...
A recent study from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph investigated owner-reported health and well-being of cats fed plant-based or animal-based diets. Dr. Sarah Dodd, a practicing veterinarian and a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Adronie Verbrugghe, reported findings from the study at the European Society of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition Congress in Turin, Italy in September of this year. Initial results from the study show that cats fed plant-based were reported to be in “very good” health, had mostly ideal body weight, and were comparable in age to cats fed animal-based diets. Reported prevalence of disease in cats fed plant-based were comparable or lower than those in cats fed animal-based diets, and...
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A common objection to a plant-based dog diet is that dogs are sometimes classified as ‘carnivores’ (meat-eaters), like their ancestors wolves. It might be surprising to find out that the order Carnivore also includes some well-known omnivores such as raccoons and skunks, as well as the giant panda, which is a strict herbivore. From nutritional standpoint, this classification is misleading and inappropriate, and does not reflect evolutionary and physiological evidence about dogs. Modern dogs are now more appropriately classified as ‘omnivores’, that is, mammals that can receive their nutrients from both plant-based and meat-based diets. Although a dog’s ancestor is a meat-eating wolf, his digestive system changed over the past 10,000-36,000 years, due to adaption to domestication by humans. From...
Omega-3 Fatty Acids are a great addition to a dog's food, as this nutrient is beneficial for proper brain function, central nervous system and vision. Flax seeds are one of the best sources of Omega-3's. The seeds have to be fresh ground to get the benefit of Omega-3's. Although frequently added to pet foods, Omega-3 Fatty Acids are destroyed by heat and oxidation and have almost no beneficial effect after extrusion. Cooked flax or pre-ground flax will not offer the advantages of Omega-3 either. The best way to get Omega 3 Fatty Acids in high concentrations is to grind whole flax seed immediately before using and adding it to your dog's food. Add 1 tsp. of freshly ground flax seed...
