Heart to Heart: Optimal Nutrition for Animals with Heart Disease
Nutrition is an important part of the treatment for dogs and cats with heart disease. In the past, when few cardiac medications were available, restriction of salt in the diet...
Nutrition is an important part of the treatment for dogs and cats with heart disease. In the past, when few cardiac medications were available, restriction of salt in the diet...
...realistically afford to pay for your pet food. Once you know your budget, you should look for the best food available within that budget, regardless of how it is marketed....
...your pet. Contact the manufacturer with questions and to find out the answers to the criteria listed below. Recommendations for selecting a commercially available pet food [Adapted from Freeman et...
...meats may be more variable with less available information than what is typically found in commodity meats such as chicken, turkey, beef, or pork. This means that pet food companies...
...is carrying over into companion animals so I hope that drugs will also be available for pets with muscle loss in the near future. However, treatment for cachexia and sarcopenia...
...measured directly. Otherwise, ash isn’t valuable to know unless the actual amounts of individual minerals are not available, either because the manufacturer hasn’t measured them or won’t provide this information...
...foods available now in stew forms, pate, loaf, shredded, chunks, and in various shapes like doughnuts, stars, pyramids, etc. Try different types of foods based on flavors and textures and...
...with low carbohydrate diets. Low carbohydrate diets, especially dry diets, are often very high in calories. For these reasons, simply choosing the lowest carbohydrate diet available may not be the...
...my vet? There are a few stool or ‘poop charts’ available that use a numbering system to help you provide your veterinarian with a better understanding of what you’re seeing...