Again, we’re not here to advocate for or against any particular diet plan for your dog. What is agreed by experts, however, is that a dog can live and thrive on a nutritionally balanced vegan diet. Plenty of dogs have done well on vegan diets, including Bramble, the world’s fifth longest living dog who lived for over 27 years whilst consuming a plant-based diet.

Unlike their distance ancestors, wolves, dogs produce the enzyme amylase, which is present is the human digestive system (including our spit) and allows us to digest carbohydrates. This is a result of thousands of years of evolution in conjunction with humans. For millennia, dogs have been fed human foods, such as scraps and leftovers from meals, and have thus evolved the ability to digest carbohydrates from plant-based foods.
Neil Telman
November 8, 2019 at 00:50I’m transitioning my dog onto a 50/50 diet of vegan and meat to see how it goes (feel it’s better than a 100% meat diet for the environment). Thanks for the list – very useful.
Laura
January 30, 2020 at 12:41Really good list, my dog is on Benevo and I think it’s cleared up some of her gut issues. She loves the stuff too. We’ll be sure to take a look at some of the others.