If you’re eating less meat for the planet’s sake, good for you – but what about your dog? Switching all the world’s pooches to a plant food diet would save a lot of greenhouse gases: more than all those emitted by Britain, says Dr Andrew Knight, a professor of Animal Welfare affiliated with Murdoch University’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

A vegan diet can be good for your dog, and the planet.Credit: Getty

That’s food for thought for us dog lovers, given last month’s State of the Climate Report 2024 from the Bureau of Mereorology and the CSIRO, which told us (as if we didn’t know) it’s time to get a grip on greenhouse gas emissions.

Trimming our own and our pets’ meat intake can help tackle this – the livestock that feeds us and our pets accounts for 25 to 30 per cent of global GHG emissions, Knight says. And if you still think dogs are designed for a meat-only diet, here’s some evolutionary history. When a few bold wolves first crept closer to........

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