Yes. Our faithful companions have been sharing our dinner spoils, scraps and sandwiches throughout our whole farming revolution, which started 6,000 years ago. Their digestive systems have geared up to digesting starches found in vegetables and grains efficiently.
You wouldn’t expect a dog get all the nutrients they need from chicken and rice … and in exactly the same way, you can’t feed a dog just chickpeas and rice. The correct balance of protein, carbohydrate, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals is absolutely vital and it takes expertise and care to get everything correct.
Here at PlantLabs we are growing our Noochy Poochy range, developed by our vet and nutritionist team, slowly and carefully so that we have the best nutrition for your dog… but also from sustainable and ethical sources.
Noochy Poochy Vegan dog food is formulated to provide your best friend with all the essential nutrients they need including protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. We get our protein from plants – some you’d expect – like such as soybeans, lentils, and chickpeas. some you perhaps wouldn’t expect – like peas and rice. Our recipes provide all the necessary amino acids for optimal health. Our Omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids come from a blend of rapeseed, olive oil and linseed and we use special chelated minerals to increase uptake and utilisation of macro and micro minerals within the body.
Two recent large scale studies (from the UK and USA) showed dogs eating vegan diets lived up to 18 months longer than their conventional dog food-eating counterparts, with less illnesses along the way.
Yes it may sound mad initially, especially if you haven’t really thought about it before… but trust us when you think about all the processing that happens to PAP (processed animal protein) before it gets cooked (again) in the recipe and then packed into a pet food bag… it perhaps starts to make much more sense.
