Got a Baby Lamb!!! what do I do??

elsien

evilsheep wrote: »

In case of judgemental backlash: cats are obligate carnivores, therefore I see no issue in feeding my rescue cat meat; no I don't wear any leather goods; yes, I shave my armpits, my house does not smell of patchouli and I think hippies should have a wash and get a job.

:rotfl: (Been asked this once or twice before by any chance? )

evilsheep

louisdog wrote: »

Is that definitely correct? I have a friend who feeds their cat a vegetarian (not vegan) diet...

Cheers
Alex

That was my understanding from personal research, but I may be incorrect. Humans can make their own informed decisions on whether or not to eat meat, but cats & dogs ... well, put it this way - if I put out a bowl of chopped veg and a bowl of Applaws for a cat, I'm pretty sure which one it'd go for! Forcing pets to eat a vegetarian diet just to appease the owner seems entirely wrong to me.

Sorry for wandering off topic!

louisdog

Yeah I agree with you. I was just curious. I was surprised when my friend said he fed his cats veggie food!

Juliepink26

When the time comes my daughter will be under the impression that he is going back to grandad, from the start I have told her that we are only looking after him while granddad is away. We have talked about him being for food and we have had lots of food related talk, today she asked if eggs come from chickens, then as we were walking past the meat section she asked what all the dirffent things were, then went on to ask if olive oil comes from olives..

regarding the relative, you dont have a clue.. lol.. someone who has spent 45 years in the business will have friends in all areas from farm to plate...

Fire_Fox

laurauk wrote: »

oh believe me firefox, i lived in greece for a number of years and you want to ask me if i have seen a slaughter of a sheep out there? where would you like me to start? not a nice thing to see or be part of, so dont tell me,
yes lamb is very fatty and rests in the stomach for many days,

Does everything we eat after the lamb meal just back up, or does the human stomach separate the meat?

laurauk wrote: »

who said the ops diet is any of my business? i didnt mention any thing about the op and a diet? your looking for things that arent there? stop it.

Either your comment about lamb being fatty was inane and irrelevant or it was aimed at the OP: you choose.

Fire_Fox

louisdog wrote: »

Is that definitely correct? I have a friend who feeds their cat a vegetarian (not vegan) diet...

Cheers
Alex

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm
http://www.provet.co.uk/petfacts/healthtips/vegetarianism.htm
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/catfood.html

purplepardalis

Serious question - I guess I could spend time googling etc but thought I'd ask people directly (who are hopefully still reading this thread). When did vegetarianism\veganism start? In the western world?
Just wondered when it was that people chose not to follow the omnivorous diet that humans had followed for years. Was there a particular trigger?

Again - this is a serious question, I'm not trolling or flaming. I guess I'm thinking that for many years until commercial farming took away our need to rear meat for ourselves - we went from hunting it, to keeping it, to buying it from other people that did the keeping....... At what point did not eating meat become a choice?

I guess that it must be after WW2.... First the introduction of the CAP and then the EEC. These two combined had meant we have never had to worry about where the next meal is going to come from.

If we ever had WW3 - a disruption in supply routes, no trade of food with the outside world. Would we not eat whatever we could? Whatever we could produce? Could we produce enough to eat?

Would a free lamb cosied up and looked after in a front room not equal much needed protein and fat for a family? Wouldn't we all do it?

BeenieCat

Juliepink26 wrote: »

When the time comes my daughter will be under the impression that he is going back to grandad, from the start I have told her that we are only looking after him while granddad is away.

So she doesn't know that you're actually eating this particular lamb?

Doesn't this negate the whole point of your 'project'?

<-- confused

Kimberley

Please don't kill the Lamb Can you not donate him to a local childrens farm? Your daughter can then go to visit him rather then eat him.

border_collie

Louisdog, I have a mixed bunch of texel crosses and suffolk crosses. I did have 30'ish that I lambed every year but this year am down to 13 and not lambing YAAY!

The OP is in for such a huge shock.

They grow so fast, they want to boing and poo and wee everywhere.

He will be frantic if he is kept on his own. Even twins I have hand reared have been a right bloomin nuisance, crying at the fence for me and running about behind me looking for a bottle.

They eat a LOT of grass/hay. Is your grass growing yet?
Then you need loads of hay.

I bet it has been stolen from a field and is destined to have a short distressing life in order to feed the "starving family", anyone boiling and eating sheep's head must be desperate, we used to boil and feed them to our dogs when I was little and the smell was !!!!in putrid :rotfl:

As for eating brain, would any sane person do that given that sheep often have scrapie, similar to BSE and the reason brain and spinal material are removed in this country at the slaughterhouse.

Hopefully the neighbours will object and report her.


CPH number :rotfl: