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[–]AnarchySpeach 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

When it's to an animal, everybody calls it innocent ignorance, maybe once in a awhile somebody calls the cops to report it as animal abuse, but that rarely goes anywhere.

At a certain point somebody's gotta grow a pair and explain to these people that torturing animals for their amusement is evil and a sign of mental illness.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I would never feed a cat a vegan diet, but cats do eat a fair amount of plants in commercial cat foods, and even a little bit in the wild. They can digest plants, it's just not as efficient.

So while it's a stupid thing to do, I don't if I would call it abuse. Vegan cat seems better than a homeless cat put down, doesn't it?

[–]Pononimus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many years ago I knew a woman who had a dog to which she fed cooked vegetables. I tried to explain to her that, being a canine, that kind of food was not only bad for the dog but would ultimately kill him. She ignored this. The dog was dead within six months. Cause of death: starvation. Tragic, because it was a really nice dog, too. (I should just have stolen the dog when I had the chance and I'm sorry I didn't.)