On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 17:44:11 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2021 08:39:02 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote:

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Not many animals are inteligent enough to hate or kill each other because they believe in
difernt magical beings.
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Quite, but our (daughters) dog is defiantly fearful of one dog (twice
his size) because it has previously attacked him (out of the blue and
not badly luckily).

I didn't realise we were following this dog along a pavement (a few
hundred m behind and a year since the attack) and I wondered why our
dog kept trying to cross the road. It was only when I checked further
up the road did it all make sense as it appeared we were catching them
up.

Ah, he's just told me it's 5:30 so his dinner time. ;-)

Cats are just as good at that, althouhg my cat starts to chew or a plastic bag when it;s her feed time.
Other cats I've had sit by their bowl or come up to me acting extra cute.


(We have just started the last batch of the 'quality' kibble and when
daughter comes back from her holiday we will blend what's left with
the vegan kibble 'complete food' she has ready.

My cat doesn;t normally eat until I;'ve given her a 'side salad' of dreamies,
she'll eat those first then go on to eat the wet food then the prescription food from the vet.
if I don;t put any down she'll try to bit my ankle asa I walk away.
She won;t eat the prescription food when there's anything else on offer.
But happy enough to when I'm not there to 'give in'


Then it will be the vegan kibble and a mix of veg, pulses, sweet
potato (being cautious not to add to much of the sweeter veg). As it
happens he seems to love all the veg, typically leaving (meat based)
kibble and eating all the veg (then going back to it later when he's
hungry again).

Depends on the individual, parents had a cat that loved tomotoes
or rather the pits and juice.
Another liked crisps, my present cat doesn't like any food humans eat.
She doesn;t evenb like the fish cat food, she'll only eat the meat ones, and prefers jelly to gravy.
Where as another cat loved chicken, if you made a clucking noise she'd come running meowing
and jumping up.


Dogs are omnivores so as long as they get all the key nutrition, there
is no reason they can't live and thrive on a well planned vegan diet.

true but care is needed, but that doesn't apply to cats they have to have meat
although I don;t really understand why that is if you can find additives
that are the 'same' as meat, but I won;t experiment on my cat.
I have students for that ;-)



Cheers, T i m