Epski, you won't find vegan cat food in stores, you'd have to buy online and it's quite expensive.

Yeah, I saw that, thanks to EquiPro. Over 2x the Advanced Pet Diet, and nearly 3x Nutro's MaxCat!

I understand. It's awful. But it makes sense. Pet food is very cheap. The most expensive part is the packaging. I am sure that this co. doesn't have the kind of $$ behind it that will allow it to make things cheap. When you are a small co., the packaging IS expensive. Everything costs, and I am sure this is the only way that they can make money.

I am an entreprenuer. I have 3 patents and have been working on my products for 10 years. They are just starting to become profitable. My biggest mistake was not charging enough for them in the first place. Look at it this way, this companies competition is NOT Advanced Pet or NUTRO. It is NOT offering you some version of the same product. Even though it is lumped into the same catagory as other pet foods, it is not the same. It costs them FAR more to make their food because it is not the same.

One of my products was in the "bucket" family for horses. You can buy a bucket for $5. It cost me $10 to make the bucket. Buy the time that I get it to retail sale, it MUST sell in the $50 range in order for me to to make money and to wholesale it. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to find an niche where it is NOT compared to your average plastic bucket, but to other kinds of medical sinks.

take a look at the Sling Sink:

http://madewithhorsesense.com/ roll over the old photo to see the new use

and click on the Perfect World Luggage graphic to be taken to the new site.

Anyway, if you can afford it, you should support this company. This is how change is made. When new companies offer true competition, and the veggie pet industry rises enough to cut some of their manufacturing costs, the price will probably come down.

Oh, I agree completely, EquiPro. And I will support it as soon as I can afford it. I'm all for paying full value for products.

So many products are artificially cheap thanks to subsidies, foreign labor, and so forth that people don't have a realistic idea what things should cost. Trouble is, most of us wouldn't have enough money to live as well as we do if everything cost what it was worth!

So, yeah, looking forward to being able to buy this product. :)

Is it really safe to feed a cat a vegan diet? I thought they truly are carnivores? I personally buy California Natural
(http://www.naturapet.com/display.php?d=cal-home) for my cat, but if there is a possibility that Chloe could truly thrive on a Vegan diet I would work on transitioning her to that. She only eats dry food anyways so I wouldn't need to worry about replacing a wet one.

Mandabelle,

They are technically carnivores, as are dogs, but they can survive on a healthy, balanced diet, from what I've read. I've never tried this with a cat, but I've seen it in practice with dogs (see my post earlier in the thread), and they were very healthy and happy creatures.

Interesting, I will have to look into that a bit more, my cat is extremely picky about her dry food so it may be a hard sell for her. ;)
Has anyone here had a cat that they have switched to a Vegan diet?

i am trying to find veggie cat food at the moment. I dont think any companies make it in my country, or import it.

it seems from readign about it that it is perfectly healthy ......something i never thought possible till now.

Originally posted by Clawsy
i am trying to find veggie cat food at the moment. I dont think any companies make it in my country, or import it.

it seems from readign about it that it is perfectly healthy ......something i never thought possible till now.

You can't get it sent to you from here?

http://www.petfoodshop.com/home.html

We buy Wysong pet food. Although we buy pet food that contains animal products, Wysong DOES have vegetarian and vegan pet food products.

www.wysong.net

amy