Vegan diet is healthier for dogs, new study finds

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University of Winchester
UK: Vegan diet healthier for dogs, new study finds

However, it was not tested how much the dogs like the vegan food (symbol image)

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04/14/2022, 05:07 p.m

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A new analysis of 2,500 pets shows vegan-fed dogs visit the vet less often and require less medication.

According to the largest dog nutrition study to date, vegan diets are healthier and safer for dogs than traditional meat-based diets, as long as they are nutritionally complete. The diet and health of more than 2,500 dogs were tracked over a year using questionnaires filled out by their owners. These assessed seven general health indicators, such as B. several visits to the vet, and 22 common diseases, as the “Guardian” summarizes the study results.

Researchers found that, for example, nearly half of dogs fed a traditional meat-based diet required out-of-order medications, but only a third of dogs fed a vegan diet. A separate study from 2021 found that dogs found vegan diets just as tasty as regular dog food.

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Some of the dogs in the study were fed raw meat, and these were marginally healthier than the vegan dogs overall. However, this could be due to the fact that they were on average a year younger. “Our study is by far the largest published study to date,” said Prof. Andrew Knight of the University of Winchester, UK, who led the study Diet is,” he told The Guardian.

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The study, published in the journal Plos One, analyzed surveys conducted by 2,536 dog owners, each on a single animal. Just over half ate a conventional meat-based diet, a third ate a raw meat diet, and 13 percent were vegan.



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Findings included that 17 percent of dogs on conventional diets had four or more visits to the vet over the course of a year, compared to 9 percent of dogs on vegan diets and 8 percent of dogs on raw meat diets. The proportion of reported dogs with health problems was 49 percent with the conventional diet, 43 percent with the raw meat diet and 36 percent with the vegan diet.

Sources: “Guardians”, “PLOS One” one, “PLOS One” two

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