Vegan cats.
Ari and Shira brought us some vegan cat food, and our little darlings LOVED it. They didn't seem to notice the vegan dry food mixed with their regular dry food, and they sucked up the moist like roomba vacuums controlled by a wii remote that's getting flung across a room.
The thing is, they pretty much just love the sound of cans getting opened, so the packaging certainly didn't hurt.
I'm not sure what to do next. I love the cats, but am not sure we're ready for the expense of super fancy food, and I'm definitely not going to cook for them all the time... at least not while I'm working full-time and part-time in school.
So, for now, they're going to have to live with their generic (Whole Food supermarket) brand catfood. And, maybe, just maybe when NYU isn't billing us three arms and two legs every semester, the cats can have their gourmet pleasures.
Comments
Having looked into this myself, veganism is hard on cats! Science isn't sure about the long-term safety and effectiveness of synthetic taurine (the critical amino acid that cats can't biosynthesize). Even companies that promote feline veganism have lately been issuing instructions to feed male cats a 25-75% vegan diet and females a 50-100% vegan diet, because vegan cats are more prone to UTIs. I've concluded that having a carnivore for a pet is a compromise to veganism, period -- as is eating produce grown with the help of manures, sweets containing non-vegan sugar, wines fined with albumen... absolutely escaping the animal industry is a venerable aim, but requires a level of sacrifice that cannot yet be purchased. There is informed compromise, for the rest of us.
Posted by: Mo | February 7, 2007 5:20 PM