...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...
...with low carbohydrate diets. Low carbohydrate diets, especially dry diets, are often very high in calories. For these reasons, simply choosing the lowest carbohydrate diet available may not be the...
...commercial broths can vary so widely and often have undesirable or even unsafe ingredients, it’s generally lowest risk to make your own broth at home. The safest recipe is boiling...
...include feeders that only allow access to food after reading a chip on your pets’ collar, though this option may be a pricey one for some and usually only accept...
...only need about 400 calories daily which means no more than 40 calories from treats). A 10-pound cat typically needs just over 200 calories daily, so that means no more...
...new feeding. Once the new diet is now familiar (it may take a few tries!) and your cat starts eating it readily, you can slowly decrease the amount of the...
...feed are put into a furnace and then burned until they reach a constant weight. This means that the only thing left is elements that won’t burn, namely minerals. All...
...treats you are giving outside the regular diet. While you may think a little bit won’t hurt, many of the diets are tested to work if they’re the only thing...
...reasons to feed a lower fat diet. When might you purposely look for a higher fat diet? Higher fat diets, because they are high in calories and usually taste really...
It’s amazing how quickly kittens and puppies can grow up! That little bundle of joy that you brought home seemingly only weeks ago has now rounded his 6-month birthday and...