Nutrition

Vet teams: Dont underestimate the power of your guidance when encouraging pet owners to make objective decisions about pet food. Youre better armed than you think.

Mealtime and treats are a huge source of warm fuzzies for people and their pets—something veterinarians should recognize and celebrate. But there's danger lurking in the shadows: obesity, pancreatitis and other problems of overindulgence.

When your veterinary clients hold fast to their deepest beliefs about whats best (and worst) for their pet to eat, you make think theyre crazybut its also because they care.

The pool of potential cases for rehabilitation services in general veterinary practice is much bigger than you think, says Fetch dvm360 speaker Dr. Matthew Brunke.

You may not want to hear it, but clients interest in unconventional diets isnt going away anytime soon. This veterinary nutritionist says its time to listen to their reasons and work with themnot shut them down.

Hungry for more information on food allergies, and the associated dermatologic conditions in dogs? Use these tips to help your veterinary team discern dietary sensitivities in your patients.

Even a veterinary nutritionist cant be familiar with every diet available for dogs and cats. Heres how to tell quality from quackery.

News that may save more cats from relinquishment: A diet coated in egg powder has been found to neutralize the protein that causes people to experience allergic reactions to cats.

Agency looks for links between certain ingredients, specific brands and veterinarian-diagnosed cardiac issues in the 500-plus case reports it has received.

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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.