Pet food

Have you seen veganpet? http://veganpet.com.au/articles/
you can get dry AND wet food now.
Alternatively for dogs you could always cook up things like meat, rice and steamed vegetables - they should be eating that kind of stuff anyway, and it means you're purchasing less meat.

Edit: http://www.ehow.com/how_12697_make-homemade-dog.html

Just remember. Cats are carnivores so they can't survive living a vegan diet

Please don't try to put your cats on a meat free diet, they wont survive. Ferrets and cats are the two animals that can not live without meat as they can not make taurine in their own systems. Besides that, your dogs will be able to live on a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle aslong as they still get all their nutrients. Dogs can live on dried food and gain all their needs as wet food is 90% water however if you can find wet food that has what you're looking for then it will bring a good variety to their diet.

Personally I draw the line at making my dogs vegan for various reasons.

One is vegan dog food is very expensive especially when you've got three dogs.

It's impossible to be a perfect vegan,trying to be and suffering guilt is the path to mental problems. For a start you'd have get rid of your computer, stop using car tyres etc.  

You just gotta do your best.

Um.. I'm fairly certain that my two vegan cats are very much with us.

They eat veganpet dry food with is equipped with artificial taurine.

There is really a big difference between computers, tyres, film etc. and pet food though. Those things are unavoidable, pet food is not.

It's really not that expensive either. We have 3 vegan dogs and 2 vegan cats. I make $40,000 a year and my partner's a student.

Also remember, everytime you buy regular pet food you're supporting factory farming, horse/jumps racing, kangaroo shooting, overfishing and god knows what else.

darn it! there goes my dream of having a pet ferret!

Eh, I'm still going to rescue a ferret one day! Can't do it now but it's definitely on the cards. And I personally wouldn't feed my other animals a vegan diet either.

Sure they are alive, they are basically being fed the human equivalent of tofu and vitamin supplements every day.

Do they get any wet food? Cats aren't big on drinking water so it's important to add fluids to their food, whether it's wetting their dry food or giving them fresh or canned food. They can develop kidney problems apparently from the lack of fluids.

I can't bring myself to feed mine veganpet so I buy organic free range lean meat and sustainable fish for my cat & dogs. They get that with fresh vegetables and brown rice or pasta, our hens eggs, molasses, sometimes berries and also seeds like sunflower and pumpkin.

I think the least you can do is provide them with a natural diet and not support factory farms. If you can find a small scale local organic farm that would be even better.

If dogs or cats left to fend for themselves would kill to survive anyway so the best we can do is provide them with as humane & environmentally as possible natural options.

We also buy the 'waste' products such as liver, necks etc I feel a bit more comforable with this as the animal wasn't generally killed for these products they are merely 'left overs'

I have a couple of fussy eaters who turn their noses up at dry food & anything canned at the best of times so doubt I would have much luck with veganpet.