you'll love this...

Date:   4/9/2006 6:41:06 PM ( 18 y ago)

While traveling the internet (virtual walking!) to see if I spelled the word "tyke" correctly in my previous blog message, I came upon the most marvelous web page about a Vegetarian Lioness named "Little Tyke".

I really do think that many CureZoners will find this story enjoyable and interesting. Here's an excerpt from the above-referenced web page:

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"Science is at a loss when it comes to Little Tyke. Felines are the strictest of carnivores. Without flesh she should have developed blindness, as well as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a degenerative disease that turns heart muscles flabby and limits their ability to pump blood. This is because her diet didn't contain an adequate source of the amino acid, taurine.
Little known in the 1950's, subsequent research at UC Davis in 1976 proved that taurine is an essential nutrient for felines, the lack of which would cause degeneration of the retina. later research implicated inadequate taurine levels in dilated cardiomyopathy as well. For cats with DCM, if the disease has not progressed too far, administering taurine causes an almost miraculous recovery. Formerly, cats lived only a few days to weeks after diagnose.
Taurine is non-existent in natural non-animal sources. It is present in minute amounts in milk and eggs. Little Tyke could have gotten her taurine requirement from milk, if she drank 500 gallons per day, or from eggs, if she ate more than 4000 per day. How did Little Tyke get taurine?"

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There are more links to other sites about carnivorous animals who choose not to eat meat when you visit this web page.

Here's the link:

http://www.vegetarismus.ch/vegepet/tyke.htm





 

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