...live healthy lives without any animal-derived ingredients. While vegan diets (or home-prepared diets in general) can cause numerous health issues if not designed by someone with considerable dog nutrition expertise,...
...appropriate safety measures to protect themselves and their families. This lack of awareness or appropriate assessment of risk may be in part because many online sources and proponents of raw-feeding...
...your cat can chase. Also, feather toys and shoelaces can be useful (but must be used with supervision to avoid having your cat ingest them in his enthusiasm). Tip 4:...
...liver” and is most common in overweight cats, although it can occur in any cat. When a cat doesn’t eat enough food for multiple days to weeks, because he has...
...are reaching for these diets, which are billed as more natural for pets and less likely to cause health problems and allergies. It all sounds great… except that it’s not...
...body condition score and muscle condition score. To assess your pet’s muscle, you should use the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s muscle condition score charts, developed at The Cummings School...
...dairy, and soy protein are less likely to cause hepatic encephalopathy or shunt-associated bladder stones compared to muscle and organ meats. Therefore, carefully designed, good quality therapeutic diets typically use...
...little and too much fat can cause health issues in dogs and cats. One common myth about fat and pets is that high fat diets can cause heart disease. High...
...nutrient, vitamin, and mineral dietary needs are met. Especially for those pets needing severe restriction, a specially formulated therapeutic diet is safest for your pet to avoid risk of nutrient...
...pets, the actual amount of carbohydrate in the diet doesn’t matter. But there may be some situations where this information could be useful. That leads us to what is probably...