Tips for Training with Food Rewards
...keeping your pet at a healthy weight. Increasing exercise can be just as important for their health. Working on behaviors out on a walk or throwing the treat so they...
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Frequently Asked Questions about Feeding Tubes
...being given via the feeding tube may be decreased accordingly. Once your pet is eating enough to maintain his/her body weight, the feeding tube may be removed (under veterinary supervision)....
Frequently Asked Questions about Home-cooked Diets for Pets
...for a dog or cat than a person of similar body weight. Additionally, most owners do not factor in the costs of proper supplements for home-cooked diets, which can cost...
Why did my pet’s black hair coat turn red?
...who need to lose weight should have a specially formulated diet and not just reduce the amount of a maintenance food – you may be cutting back calories, but you...
Breed Specific vs All Breed Diets
...become overweight easily, and long-haired cats like Himalayans may get more hairballs. Some of these health issues can potentially be prevented or can be treated in part by diet, so...
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...
Expensive eats? Comparing the costs of different types of dog food
...1100 kcal (1 kcal = 1 “human” Calorie) from food each day to maintain weight. I selected at least 3 diets from each category: Dry and canned mass market diets...
Why you shouldn’t judge a pet food by its ingredient list
...weight, including water, so ingredients with high water content (like fresh meats and vegetables) are going to be listed higher than similar amounts of dry ingredients even though they may...
What’s in a name? What is a Board Certified Veterinary Nutritionist and why does it matter?
...pet has multiple medical issues, complicated conditions, has trouble maintaining ideal weight, or you wish to feed a non-traditional diet, talk to your primary care veterinarian about whether a consultation...
Stop reading your pet food ingredient list!
...order of weight) but it’s also used as a powerful form of marketing to pet owners. Namely, manufacturers include ingredients that will appeal to pet owners but probably don’t provide...