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BLACK FRIDAY: SAVE LIVES WITH US!

We are using Black Friday - the biggest consumer day of the year - to raise awareness! Because animals die for dog food! That's why we can make an enormous impact with our VEGDOGproducts

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Alena ThielertFrom: Alena Thielert
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Modified: 17.09.2025
Published: 26.11.2021

We're using Black Friday - the biggest consumer day of the year - to raise awareness! Because animals die for dog food! That's why we can make an enormous impact with our VEGDOGproducts! But it's not enough for us to save animal lives with our products - we go further. And that's why we need you!"

"Pet food only contains slaughterhouse waste anyway" - a widespread myth. In fact, according to a major producer, 60-80% of the processed animal ingredients are of food quality and could still have been consumed by humans. Why is that? Pet owners are placing ever higher demands on the food quality of their pets and do not want to serve "waste". At the same time, most pet owners don't want to admit that other animals are slaughteredfor their pets. The legal basis that an animal ingredient that passes through a feed company is automatically - and regardless of its actual quality - degraded to slaughterhouse waste unfortunately obscures the reality.

You can also find out more about this in our YouTube video: Meat in dog food = slaughterhouse waste? - VEGDOG - YouTube

Most pet owners probably don't think about what exactly is contained in the pellets of their pet's dry food or wet food. After all, it's hard to imagine that this was once a sentient being.

In fact, 520,000,000 kg of dog food is sold in Germany every year. This includes 1.2 million cattle or 2.1 million horses or 20 million lambs or 382 million chickens. These are unimaginably high figures. The bad thing is that it wouldn't be necessary, as dogs can also be fed a wonderful and healthy plant-based diet without animal suffering.

But at least we are making a positive impact with our VEGDOGproducts and counteracting these cruel figures: in one year, we were able to save the lives of 495 cattle or 1,280 horses or 6,750 lambs or 116,000 chickens. All these animals can live on thanks to you!

We are using Black Friday to raise awareness of the fate of all these animals! We are proud that we are not part of this industry and leave many animal-friendly green pawprints on the earth. But since it is not enough for us to save animal lives through our products, we want more and go one step further: we want to save more lives with you! Namely the life of a herd of suckler cows. We are collecting donations for them via our animal rescue fund to secure them a place for life. For this, we are giving up 40% of our sales from Black Friday to Cyber Monday: we are giving you a 20% discount and donating another 20% to the animals!
Of course, you can also donate without shopping with us. We have launched a GoFundMe campaign for this purpose: https://gofund.me/2061812a

Join us and save lives! We are happy about every amount that comes together for the animals! You can find out more in our YouTube video.

The cows are not our first rescue operation! We have already saved a whole flock of sheep from the slaughterhouse and can now count them among our VEGDOGfamily! We at VEGDOG love all animals and every life - no matter what kind - counts for us!

You can get to know our flock of sheep in our YouTube video: Because every life counts - our VEGDOGflock of sheep - YouTube

Alena Thielert Alena Thielert

My dog Negrutu and I joined the VEGDOG pack in October 2020. I can now use my degree in environmental protection and experience from various activities in environmental and animal protection for the newsletter, YouTube channel, PR and blog.

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