A recent trend is to feed dogs and cats
vegan diets, to avoid supporting factory farming practices and/or the general consumption of meat by members of your household. However, there are some
concerns about whether such a diet is appropriate for carnivores such as cats and ferrets.
So the question I would like to bring up for debate is, is it appropriate to impose your beliefs on an animal with dramatically different dietary needs? A related question: is it appropriate to support the killing of other animals by keeping carnivores as pets? (Not all pet food companies have factory farmed meat--many of the higher-end companies use organic meat.) Given that there are herbivorous animals that can be kept as pets, and omnivorous animals that can be fed a vegan diet, would it not be better to keep herbivores such as rabbits and guinea pigs, than to impose your dietary beliefs on a carnivore?