#flynnthecat

Ok damn it's come to my attention that some people feed their cats and dogs "vegetarian / vegan" diets

Please no

It's perfectly respectable as a human diet because we're omnivores - it's more environmentally responsible to eat no or little meat even ignoring ethics - but your carnivorous pets need meat

I'm going to talk about cats for a moment because I don't know jack about dogs so buckle up

Cats need amino acids and fat to survive. Plants give them neither of these things. Your cat may look healthy but it will die (painfully) if you feed it only plants

They don't have the enzymes needed to break down plants as food either.. so it's going right through them and you might as well not feed them at all

Your cat will die or malnutrition if not kidney failure. It will go blind. It will suffer.

Don't punish them for being hypercarnivores. They NEED meat. If you can't handle feeding a cat a meat rich diet, don't get a cat, because giving it a diet that will harm it is abuse

There's nothing wrong with giving cats vegetables as treats, or sharing a cracker, or providing them with rice cooked in broth because you didn't realize you needed cat food and nothing is open until the morning

But cats need a diet of 70% meat or more

Give it to them.