...environment). Many of the therapeutic diets for this condition are high in sodium because that helps to dilute the urine (because cats will drink more water). But if a cat...
...Website on GRAS information: www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/ Veterinary Oral Health Council Website: www.vohc.org 2013 American Animal Hospital Association Dental Care Guidelines for Dogs and Cats: www.aaha.org/public_documents/professional/guidelines/dental_guidelines.pdf American Veterinary Dental College Website: www.avdc.org/...
...main source of information on raw diets; only 8% reported asking a veterinarian for food safety information. Only 12% of pet owners were aware that Campylobacter is a common contaminant...
...on a walk. That will make pill time a more pleasant experience. Try using a pet piller or pet pill “gun”. These can make giving medications much easier for you...
...The challenge with home-cooked diets is that unless they are carefully designed, nutrient deficiencies are common. We investigated the nutritional adequacy of home-cooked diet recipes for dogs from the Internet...
...came from, so it was easy to find the source. The Bad Very little useful information, selecting the “best overall diet” based on the recommendation of a single random internet...
...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,...
...mix wet with dry, use only 1 dry and 1 wet and consider a trial feeding only wet or only dry. Continue to journal after you make these changes. You...
...nutritionist, I was surprised at how many options there are to choose from now! Therefore, I thought it could be useful to share the process I used to sift through...
...consistency in the diet, home-cooking is not recommended because of batch to batch variability as well as the lack of testing to determine how various nutrients interact with each other...