Animal Person

JANUARY 20, 2010

We have a request, and it's an issue I've written about a handful of times but never had this particular question answered by readers: How do you talk with your vet--who is against feeding your dog vegan food--about your choice to do so? Violet the diabetic greyhound does very well as a vegan as her recent blood work demonstrated.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 1, 2010

One of those is vet bills, which of course aren't deductible, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't know the total. I'm doing my best in an imperfect world to respect the rights of other sentients, and I have heard vegans say that sanctuaries--and not pet ownership--will be the only way out of subjugation for cats and dogs.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Dr. Newest Vet sent this to me from yesterday's day at "camp" for Charles. Also, an update on Emily's 50% vegan (Ami) diet. And the "strict ethical vegan" to come.) Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. He also said he can achieve healing. That was the word I was looking for.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The vet did give me a hard time about the dogs' animal-free diets (my traditional vets don't, ironically), and my response was that unless she could show me some research that his particular type of injury needs animal protein to heal, I wasn't going to change anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. been there.

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Animal Person

MAY 3, 2009

I began my journey by discovering something you all probably know, which is that you can substitute cooked black-eyed peas or adzuki beans for flour, like in the recipe for the above vegan flourless chocolate cake. And after a $250 vet trip it became this--. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters.

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