Breed Specific vs All Breed Diets
...diets. Diet decisions should be based on the individual pet’s health concerns and other needs, regardless of breed. While there are breed-specific diets available, they may not necessarily be designed...
...diets. Diet decisions should be based on the individual pet’s health concerns and other needs, regardless of breed. While there are breed-specific diets available, they may not necessarily be designed...
...acids are often higher. These “kidney diets” typically are also less acidifying than typical cat foods. Despite the fact that commercial kidney diets have been available (at least for dogs)...
...safety concerns, nearly all home-prepared raw diets and many commercially available raw diets are deficient in essential nutrients. It is also common for commercial raw diets to be very high...
...pets or people who eat GMO corn are scarce. Genetically-modified organisms require extensive safety testing prior to FDA approval. GMO corn strains have been available for more than two decades,...
...in dogs and cats. J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl). 2023 Dec 13. Nakatsuka K, Zanghi B, Hasegawa D. Efficacy evaluation of a commercially available MCT enriched therapeutic diet on...
...signs of digestive distress. There are dozens of products available that make claims such as “may dramatically improve your pet’s digestion and absorption of nutrients”, “replace vital food enzymes destroyed...
...ingredients. If you’ve been feeding a higher fat diet (many wet foods and many higher calorie dry foods), you can try one that is at least 25% lower. Keep in...
...increased or decreased in calories and a nutritionist isn’t available to help, the best option is to take the recipe and mathematically increase or decrease the amount of EVERY ingredient...
...this information being readily available. To do this, we contacted more than 200 manufacturers last year that were selling pet food in the United States and Canada and asked them...
...food companies aren’t generally evil. Nor do we believe in the many pet food conspiracy theories popular on the Internet. There are companies that produce foods of fantastic quality and...