Nutrition

When it comes to advice for veterinary clients, I discourage feeding pets table scraps and human food. The pet obesity epidemic and the danger of toxicities mean I lean away from encouraging sharing of food to maintain the human-animal bond.

These veterinary professionals reveal awkward client encounters surrounding nutrition and their own feelings about overweight pets.

We asked your veterinary peers for the craziest nutrition conversations theyd had with pet owners, and, boy, they did not disappoint.

An untouched food bowl is bad for patient health and client perceptions. Heres how to partner with pet owners to catch and control inappetence in your veterinary oncology patients.

Your veterinary clients are using social sites like Instagram to gain information on how to best help their pets. This is where you and your clinic come in.

Based on both clinical studies and this veterinary nutritionists experience, obesity and orthopedic disease go hand in handoften with significant repercussions for both patient health and the human-animal bond.

A recent large-scale study evaluated whether supplementing the diet with taurine and L-carnitine can help manage dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs.

Therapeutic diets are the gold standard in managing veterinary patients with CKD. Heres why, and how to coax these pets to eat.

A veterinary client returns a bag of therapeutic food that their pet refused to eat. Turn it into samples so future clients can test the food out before buying it.

If the veterinarian is recommending a therapeutic diet for a patient, put it in the online cart and set up reminders to increase client compliance.

A single lot code within an already recalled SKU had been omitted from the provided list of recalled pet food.

In partnership with JustFoodForDogs, which operates kitchens and pantries in California and Seattle, Washington, the New York City Petco offers freshly prepared, human-grade pet food.

Not only do these diets lack essential nutrients, some may contain ingredients toxic to cats.

'A business would not take its own consumer and put them in the food,' nutritionist says.

This case shows that while nutritional support is vitally important, care must be shown to avoid neurological complications.

Print this PDF handout to give pet owners with stopped-up feline patients a starting salvo to set expectations and offer some basic advice.

Politics, religion and nutrition? From grain-free diets to byproducts, get tips from veterinary nutritionist Dr. Donna Raditic on how to address hot-button pet food issues.

A large international study on feline weight loss reveals factors that are significantly associated with the likelihood that cats will shed unwanted pounds.

A British-developed acronym you can use to educate your equine clients on signs of colic in a horse. Education like this could lead a better-informed, faster-responding and quicker-calling clientele.

The company has reached out to veterinary hospitals across the country to announce the expansion and what is being done to appease both pet owners and practices.

Veterinary managers and team members have heard some crazy stuff when it comes to things pet owners hear come out of the mouths of pet store owners and employees. Take a deep breath and wade in

These diets are everywhere and causing controversy in the media lately. Whats the real deal with them?

Adequate nutrition is vital to getting critical patients back on their feet. Here are five pointers to help.

When your canine patients just cant resist that tasty sock or half a tube of Gorilla Glue, its the veterinary team that comes to the rescue.

Its investigation is ongoing and the agency hasnt changed its recommendation to pet owners whose pets are not ill.