Vegan cat? Vegan cat!

 IN ENGLISH:

As the topic came up again... I decided to share Pötyi's story...
So I have a great story for CAT "owners" about cat food

Pötyi, my 10 year old gentlecat, who decided to share his life with me in the last 6 years, is eating vegan for more than a year now.
It was a relatively hard decision to make as we were really concerned about his health... For  6 month we were just arguing and researching...
BUT finally we made a decision to try it out (with AMICAT).
!!!!!
AND We went to the vet couple of weeks ago to make a full check up on him (blood test included).
SURE we could see that he is healthy and active, and his gums healed, etc etc... BUT we wanted to know for sure.

SO, the full check and blood test has been made... (we didnt say he is eating vegan). The vet came in and said how extremely healthy our cat is. And she kept asking what do we feed him. We tried to avoid answering... But she insisted... Finally we told her...
The vet literally dropped her jaw when she learned that Pötyi is eating vegan... She said that he is extremely healthy, (she even mentioned some enzyme which is "normally" very low in elderly cats, but in him its like with young cats)!
She also mentioned something I HAVE never heard of... Apparently there are many cats allergic to Animal protein... :O So she asked for the brand and where did we buy it. She said she will start to recommend it to cat "owners"... I asked her to consider to recommend it not just to allergic cats... as Spotty also not allergic.

So here is a pic of the test result and Pötyi, below.

SO if you live with a cat, and you dont feel good about feeding him/her with other animals, then...
It may finally put an end to the "vegan" cat issue...:

I would like to clarify some stuff also:
* No, his personality did NOT change since he eats vegan... He is active, playful, outgoing and just as "predatory" as before (whatever it suppose to mean)
* No, I do NOT follow or monitor him, when he goes outside, but to the best of my knowledge he is not eating his pray (he never did). He brings them to me as presents... Thankfully not too often... :/
* No, there is no vegan cat, BUT yes, cats can live healthy (apparently extremely healthy) on a vegan diet :)
* Cats do not need meat to survive. Technically speaking, cats need a specific assemblage of nutrients which meet all of their dietary needs. Chief among these are taurine, arachidonic acid, pyroxidine, methionine, and vitamin A.  Now, if modern science could provide a way to deliver these nutrients from pure vegetable source, without the need for killing animals in horrific slaughterhouse conditions, would this be such a terrible thing?
* The commercial meat-based pet food industry creates a 'food' that is so far removed from the natural diet of the ancestor of the common housecat, and one that is so lacking in the essential nutrients that a cat needs, that they must supplement their product with the very same nutrients that vegan cat food manufacturers add to their products (taurine, vitamins, minerals, etc...). But dont believe me, go read the label on your meat based cat food.
* I have 4 friends who feed their cats for 3, 5 and 8 years with a vegan diet. And there is one among them who has a shelter with over 20 cats and they are all on a vegan diet for 6-8 years now. They all reported and regularly checked by veterinarian. They are all healthy, Yes science is amazing... :)

The product: (Italian)
http://www.amipetfood.com/en/products/products-for-cats/amicat
Mivel megint feljött a vegán cicák krdése ugy döntöttem itt az ideje hogy megosszam Pötyi történetét.

On the picture below: Taškas means Pötyi in Lithuanian :) They have troubles with pronouncing "ö" and "ty", so his name was translated to Lithuanian for the vet.