Do you guys have good resources on how to feed your dog vegan?
There are a lot of pages online that simply say “consult an advisor” who will calculate what your dog needs. I’m not bad in maths, I could calculate it myself if I’d knew what the dog needs. I can look into commercial dog food ingrediants but there are declarations like “minerals” without any further specificiations. Moreover, I eat a huge variety in differrent vegetables and food in general, yet my dog shall always eat the same according to vegan complete feed. Moreover, I can not properly judge whether a feed is good because the information is missing.
Where does the nutritionist get his information from? There must be someone who has studied the needs of a dog based on size and breed and created a formula such that you can calculate the servings.
I’ve looked into books on amazon and the comments are horrible. There’s nothing on libgen and google scholar doesn’t yield appropriate results.
That’s why I’d take the position of being cautious and waiting for better quality studies.
There really needs to be more studies done and then a meta study to really nail this down. Or at least some high quality well reviewed studies.
That’s alright. Right now, I’m curious enough about the nutritional needs of the dog and how a vegan diet for dogs work
It doesn’t work. You’ll hurt your dog.
Why even risk it?