What’s Your Pet’s Score? Assessing Muscle Condition
...severe muscle loss. Many people wrongly assume that an animal has to lose weight or be very skinny to have muscle loss but this is not true. Dogs and cats...
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Research Review: Comparing “senior” and “adult” cat diets
...diluting out calories and potentially making a cat feel fuller, high levels of fiber also decrease the digestibility of a diet. It has been proposed that the weight loss often...
Should You Be Weighing Your Pet’s Food?
...under or overfeeding since it can be challenging to measure a cup exactly level to the top, especially with larger kibble sizes. When I start weight loss plans, I often...
Think Twice: Reasons to Avoid a Home-cooked Diet
...cats and most dogs; less than 18 months for a giant-breed dog). Pregnant or nursing animals. Overweight pets that are on a weight loss diet: It’s very difficult to meet...
Growth Guide: Keeping your Puppy on the Right Track
...puppies to become overweight. However, even before those extra calories cause a puppy to become overweight, they cause puppies to grow too quickly which – especially in large breed puppies...
The Skinny on Fat: Part 1 – The Basics
...cats, either at a pet store or from a veterinarian. Most of the available lower fat diets for cats are designed for weight loss. So far we’ve talked mainly about...
Browse All Pet Nutrition Articles
...the Bulge? Troubleshooting Tips for Pet Weight Loss Struggling to get those lost few pounds off your pet? Weight loss can be challenging, so we’ve though through some strategies to...
Speaking Engagements – First Half of 2016
...on topics including quality of life in dogs and cats, managing weight loss during chronic disease, and top 10 nutrition tips for cats with heart disease. In addition, results of...
Raw cat food associated with outbreak of tuberculosis in cats
...including fever, decreased appetite, cough, lethargy, increased respiratory rate, weight loss, and enlarged lymph nodes. Extensive diagnostics determined that all 6 cats were infected with M. bovis. Five of the...
Fiber Frustrations
...issues, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, and for weight loss. There are two properties based on which fiber can be classified: solubility and fermentability. Solubility is a measure of how...