Can you train a cat to be a vegetarian?

Answer 1

I would doubt it, as they don't have the digestive system necessary to survive on pant-matter, but as my cat can attest, they can and do eat vegetation (like fruit), probably to supplement vitamins absent in meat.

Answer 2

Cats are not herbivores (vegetarian). They are obligatecarnivores (meat eaters).

Related Information:

While cat food manufacturers try to make people believe that cats need grains and other non-meat products, they need meat. The makers of cat food replace much of the meat with grain because it's cheaper. In an effort to compensate, they add large amounts of supplemental ingredients trying to approximate the nutritional value of a feline carnivore's diet. Also, cat food for pets has to be cooked and canned or packaged, hence the replacement of meat with more easily preserved protein, and added salts or sugars.

The natural diet of small cats, including domestic cats, includes but is not limited to meat proteins and fats from: birds, lizards, rodents and other small mammals, insects, snakes, and fish if they can get them.

Unlike cat food manufacturers, cats preserve the full nutritional value of their food by never cooking it.

Cats, big or small, wild or tame, are not vegetarians, nor is any animal. Vegetarianism is a human life choice that involves a decision. Cats are exclusively meat-eaters, a genetic predisposition or mandate that involves no decision.

Answer 3

None. No cats, or any animals, are vegetarian, a human category. Cats are obligate carnivores (exclusively meat-eaters), a genetic mandate.