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Vegan here! Honest opinion, if a person has a dog, I believe they should be fed meat, and that someone shouldn’t have a dog if they disagree with dogs eating meat. I have friends who are experts in dog nutrition(actual experts, like their job is pet care), and one of them is vegan and they still feed their dogs meat. You could research and try to find a more “ethical” dog food as opposed to some cheap stuff?
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Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it :) one thing is with ethical dog food, that's still hurting an animal (harm ocd acting up I feel like)
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@Makki23 Right, but if you’re dog needs meat to be healthy, then not feeding him or her meat could also be seen as hurting an animal? I’m really not trying to make this harder for you. And we’re here for you while you fight any of these triggers or dilemma. ?
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@ARTnotOCD Also, no matter what you decide, if you change your dog’s food drastically, please check in with the vet first and make sure to transition the food change over days (I usually do it over 1-2 weeks, depending on how I can easily measure each food out. Your vet will let you know more about that.) Wishing the best of luck to you and your doggo! ??
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Hi I’m vegan and pretty educated on this subject. Dogs are omnivores, like humans. It is possible for them to vegan, and much more easily than cats, for whom males can absolutely not be vegan and females with much difficulty. HOWEVER, it is difficult because there are lots of vitamins, as with humans, that come most easily from meat (such as B12 for us). And though we can measure how we ourselves are feeling to see if the diet were on is good, it’s not really possible to judge how your dog is feeling. I would look into research to see if you could find a brand that covers all the nutrients your dog needs, or perhaps mix a vegan dry brand with an occasional non-vegan wet brand to reduce impact. But whatever you do, know that if you are caring about your dogs best interest and being thorough with your decision making, then that is the best you can do!
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Hi! Being vegan yourself is awesome, but please don’t make your dog eat a vegan diet. Dogs naturally eat meat- that’s the diet that their bodies are adapted to. It’s impossible for them to get the nutrients they need without meat. If you are concerned about the ethics behind the dog food I suggest looking into smaller brands of dog food like Darwins or something like that. They’re usually produced with less animal suffering. You can always talk to a vet about this too!
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Thank you!!
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This ^
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Do you have snap? We can talk?
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Sure thank you, it's lindseyw_20
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So I'm guessing your real name is Lindsey? Do you mind sharing what "Makki" means ☺?
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Added :)
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@Ben84 Yes? also Makki is the name of an anime character from a show I watch ?
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@Makki23 Ahh nice :)
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@Makki23 Which show?
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@Ben84 Haikyuu :)
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@Makki23 I used to watch some anime when I was younger ☺. Have you ever seen Grave of the Fireflies. It's known as the world's saddest cartoon, but what a powerful movie.
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@Ben84 I don't think I've seen it actually
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@Makki23 You'd remember if you had ☺. It's the Schindler's List of animation.
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I am so tired of having intrusive thoughts everytime i try to eat anything cause my mind immediately goes to “what if this tastes like human meat” “what if the texture is like human meat” and i have to stop eating and i start crying it annoys me so bad and i lost some weight because of it i just want to be normal again and to stop these thoughts they happened out of nowhere and i talked to some people about it and they tell me what cannibals have said and it has made things so much worse tbh im just so exhausted and i wanna eat healthy again
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(21+ ONLY: TRIGGER WARNING) I love my dog. He just turned seven months old yesterday. But sometimes, I get so frustrated. I came home from work and I just wanted to sit down and relax and watch my favorite TV show. But then he started jumping on me, barking, and getting into things he shouldn’t be. On top of that, I was feeling lightheaded because I haven’t been taken Zoloft lately, which is completely my fault and irresponsible of me. My dog got into a laundry basket and tipped it over, spilling all the clothes on the floor and grabbing a pair of socks. I just lost it, at that point. I chased him and yelled at him and as I went to grab the socks from him, I thought about hitting him. I don’t think I did, but I don’t know. Either way, I’m truly disgusted with myself. I hate that that was my first automatic thought. What is wrong with me? I put him in his kennel for time out and I completely just lost it. I started crying and hyperventilating. I feel horrible for feeling sorry for myself when I’m not the one hurting here. I’m truly a disgusting manipulative POS that deserves to be locked away forever
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Ugh. So I’ve been having some stomach issues for about two or three months now. I started seeing a naturopathic doctor who ran some tests and put me on a restrictive diet. The stool test she gave me revealed that I have high levels of a pathogen called Aeromonas caviae. I was kind of relieved to find this out since it finally gave me some answers to my issue. That was about 3 weeks ago. Last Friday I got my food sensitivity results back which revealed that I have some mild problem with gluten, dairy, egg whites, and other random foods. They were all low-level igG sensitivities though. Again, I was kind of relieved to receive the results at first because it helped me better understand what might be going on with my stomach. I was good for about a day. I even had one of the foods that I’m “mildly sensitive” to and had no issues. I remember eating with my husband after getting the results and telling him that I was happy and that these results were “tolerable.” That was until I visited my mom on Saturday night. I decided to tell my mom about my food sensitivity results and she just had a reaction that kind of set me off for some reason. I’m not even entirely sure why it set me off because her reaction wasn’t overly dramatic or anything. She was more just shocked and made the comment “well what can you eat then?!” I immediately got super anxious after this. I started thinking maybe I wasn’t taking the results seriously enough and that I should be more concerned. I started doing research about food allergies and it’s all been downhill since then. That night I could hardly sleep. I kept waking up every couple of hours because I was just super anxious. The next day I cooked and ate a breakfast meal that I had the day before and was perfectly fine with. Except this time I noticed that the back of my hand started burning and itching a bit. I put some creme on and took a nap and by the time I woke up I felt better. Then again later in the evening my husband and I meal prepped for the week and ate dinner. After eating I noticed the same thing was happening but on the back of my foot. It went away after a while but I started going down the rabbit hole of “what ifs.” I started wondering if maybe I was having a mild allergic reaction to the food I ate. The next morning I ate the same breakfast and brought my meal prepped lunch. I was fine all day until I started driving home and had the itching again. I got home and was super worried. My ears and throat got a little itchy. I was going to eat dinner but I was too afraid that I was having an allergic reaction to my breakfast or lunch. Yesterday I ate the same breakfast with no issues and brought my lunch. While I was eating my lunch I noticed that my mouth was burning a bit. I did have jalapeños and a salsa in my food but the burning felt different than usual. I started to get super hot and my face was burning and getting a little flushed. I spiraled for much of the rest of the work day thinking I had an allergic reaction/I have a food allergy that I’m unaware of. I ate a snack when I got home and again, it felt like my mouth was burning a bit. Now I cant stop focusing on how my mouth feels and if it’s burning or not. I ate the same breakfast this morning and it felt like it was burning a bit but I cant tell what’s real and what’s psychosomatic.
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