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.

  • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    I’m pretty sure that the entire scientific community would agree that dogs can’t consent to a vegan diet. We don’t force humans without consent, why would you force a dog to do that?

    • iiGxC@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      Dogs can’t consent to nonvegan kibble, leashes, living in houses, and countless other things

      • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        That’s correct, but dogs don’t naturally eat a “vegan” diet, and there is evidence all over the place as to whether or not that’s good or safe for them. I would tend to be ok with housing a dog, but not with what is essentially still an experimental diet.

        • iiGxC@slrpnk.netMEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          So far the evidence is that as long as it’s nutritionally complete, it’s safe. See the review I linked above