Cats like Lion or Tiger lives in forests and generally eat other animals i.e. flesh or meat. So one question always raise in our mind that, will these animals die if we feed them only vegetarian food. And the answer of this question is, it totally depends on Situation and Metabolism of that animal. Let me explain you how ?
Our ecosystem consists of so many creatures. All those creatures are depends on each other directly or indirectly for their survival. They are classified as Herbivorous, Carnivorous and Omnivorous. First of all you should know, what these terms actually defines ?
Herbivorous Animals are those who depends on plant material for their food. Due to their diet type such animals typically have small ,broad molars teeth used for rasping and grinding. Example goat, deer, cow, etc.
Carnivorous Animals are those who depends on other animals which may be herbivore or comparatively weaker animals for their food. They eat animal's flesh. They have long and sharp teeth adapted to ripping,tearing and cutting flesh. Example cat, tiger, lion, leopard, etc.
Omnivorous Animals are those who eat both plants and animals. They have long, pointed teeth to rip and cut meat and flat molars to crush the plant materials. Example humans, dogs, etc.
Now without wasting any time lets come to our main topic. So let me share you my personal experience regarding to this topic. It is about 5 years ago, my friend had a cat. As she was vegan so she wants to make her cat vegan too. So she started to feed her cat vegetables, milk and other healthy things which are highly rich in vitamins and proteins. But after some days she had noticed that her cat became physically weak.Then she visited to her veterinarian (a person who's profession is to treat diseased or injured animal ) ,who suggested her to not to force her cat to be vegan. My friend realize her mistake and allow her cat to eat non vegetarian food like fishes, rats, etc. Then her cat's health start improving day by day.
The reason behind it is cats (lion, tiger, etc) do not have required enzymes to digest fruits. Vegetables, while not that harmful, are totally undesired - cats won't get any nutrients from them. But the pet food industry has convinced people that cats or dogs can be vegan, and they can be as healthy as cats with non veg food, by serving then healthy vegan diet.
Now its a time to share you an another real fact. In 1946, Georges and Margaret Westbeus had given a responsibility of cub whose mother had killed her newly born 5 cubs in a zoo before zoo keeper could get near her. Actually mother lioness wants to prevent her cubs from imprisonment and and all other things she was suffering from.
Her 6th cub was the lioness named as Tyke, got famous as Little Tyke, rescued from her mother and lived with Georges and Margaret for rest of her life. Up to 3 months from her birth they fed her only milk. After 3 months they start giving her bones and flesh. But every time little Tyke refused to eat them. Then someone suggest Westbeus to give her milk mixed with some blood, and after she starts addicted to that milk, just start reducing the quantity of milk and increase the quantity of blood, and then she will eat bones and flesh.So as per the suggestion they firstly add 10 drops of blood in milk but little Tyke refused it. Then they add 5 drops of blood but still the result was same. In fact little Tyke refused the milk having only one drop of blood.
Georges and Margaret Westbeus did so many thing to fed her non veg food like when Tyke reached the age of four, the Westbeus advertised a 1,000 dollar reward for anyone who could get Tyke to eat meat. They were doing this because according to scientists and people, " A lion will die if they don't eat meat ". One day a young man came up and suggest George to read Genesis 1:30 from bible and he will get the solution of his problem. George read Genesis 1:30 where it is stated that,
" And to every beast of the earth,
and to every foul of the air,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein [ there is ] life,
[ I have given ] every green herb for meat :
and it was so. "
And finally they stop forcing Tyke to eat non veg food. Let me tell you the Tyke was considered as healthy as normal lion and had a lifespan of 9 years. There we have some pictures of little Tyke,
Conclusion :
I know that both the facts shared by me some where confused you. Let me tell you , why I had shared you this thing. If you compare both the facts then you will noticed that my friend's cat was almost dying due to absence of non veg food in her diet while on the other hand the lioness lived for 9 years without non veg food. What exactly happened with them ?
Every living being has their own metabolism i.e. the way they digest their food. Generally cats like lion and tiger acquire some essential nutrients from meat which includes ta-urine, an amino acid, arachidonic acid, vitamin A and vitamin B-12 which will not obtained from plant based food. Due to deficiency of these nutrients they may suffer from liver and heart problem, skin irritation, deafness, blindness, malnutrition, etc.
But these nutrients are present in vegan cat food which you can serve them instead of meat. Whereas some animals are very used to with non veg food, so if you try to restrict to eat them they will definitely suffer with some health issue which I have mentioned above. On the other hand if you are feeding them healthy food and they too comfortable with them then they can survive with vegetarian food also without any health issue.
So at last I will suggest you that don't try to force them to eat something they are not comfortable with or a diet which is not good for them and I hope you get the answer of your question.
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