It’s Not Just Grain-Free: An Update on Diet-Associated Dilated Cardiomyopathy
You may have read my June 4 post, “A broken heart: Risk of heart disease in boutique or grain-free diets and exotic ingredients.” This post had more than 180,000 page...
You may have read my June 4 post, “A broken heart: Risk of heart disease in boutique or grain-free diets and exotic ingredients.” This post had more than 180,000 page...
...your journal during this time to help you sort it out and introduce items one at a time and add only one new thing per week, allowing your pet to...
...typically can be purchased only through a veterinarian. For animals with a normal pancreas, there is no proof that supplementing with additional enzymes has any benefits for digestion or for...
...not easy (you’ll see why as you read on), so you don’t want to go through it more than once. Most veterinary specialists recommend an elimination diet trial of at...
...What is a ‘Low Protein’ Diet? Unfortunately using terms like low or high can be rather confusing in pet nutrition. Healthy adult dogs (over one year of age) need a...
...specific requirements for senior animals are needed as the requirements of older dogs and cats are most certainly different from a young adult. However, adjustment of the diet may or...
...provide recommendations for a limited number of dietary supplements, when appropriate. Please note that requests for additional diet and treat options may incur an additional fee based on the time...
...as well as the nutrition adequacy statement, should specify whether the diet is intended for large breed puppies. Once your puppy is an adult, as long as she isn’t pregnant...
...cooking methods result in differing nutrient amounts. So, changing cooking methods – boiling instead of baking, using a crockpot to cook all ingredients together instead of cooking them separately as...
Nutrition is an important part of the treatment for dogs and cats with heart disease. In the past, when few cardiac medications were available, restriction of salt in the diet...