Nutrition
Nutrition and Feline Idiopathic Constipation
Treatment of chronic feline constipation requires an individualized approach, with periodic monitoring and adjustment of diet strategies and ancillary therapies, depending on the cat’s response.
Nutrition
Feeding Strategies for Overweight and Obese Patients
Pet Food Institute’s Nutrition Subcommittee provides guidance for selecting a proper diet for weight loss among the different types of diet options available for dogs and cats.
Nutrition
Proactive Nutrition for the Healthy Indoor Cat
Preventing cats from becoming overweight or obese can be more rewarding and successful than weight-loss programs.
Nutrition
Step-by-Step Guide to Making an Enteral Nutrition Plan
Although this step-by-step guide can help clinicians make enteral nutrition plans, it is just a starting point.
Nutrition
Compliance Strategies for the Obese Patient
Showing clients how to assess weight and discussing what “non-negotiables” are important to the human-animal bond are just a few strategies at increasing client compliance in a weight-loss plan.
Nutrition
Supplements for Small Animal Cancer Patients
Veterinarians face multiple questions and challenges from clients whose pets have cancer, and clients appreciate veterinary guidance and the logical integration of appropriate herbs and dietary supplements with conventional therapies.
Nutrition
Nutrition for Small Animal Cancer Patients
Clients will have questions about popular “cancer diets,” making it critical for practitioners to understand how they might affect a patient.
Nutrition
Performing a Diet Trial to Identify Food Allergies in Dogs and Cats
Confirmation of an adverse food reaction depends on reduction or resolution of clinical signs while the animal is being fed a strict elimination diet, recurrence of clinical signs when the animal's diet is challenged, and resolution of signs after the elimination diet has been reinstated.
Nutrition
Nutritional Management for Chronic Kidney Disease Versus Acute Kidney Injury
Important differences exist in the nutritional management of CKD versus AKI in dogs and cats. We review the best diets for dogs and cats with chronic kidney disease versus those with acute kidney injury.