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|Articles|September 1, 2010
4 pet nutrition nuggets for technicians
Use these tools and guidelines to increase your nutritional knowledge.
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Technicians play a major part in developing a foundation of optimum pet health through good nutrition. Sink your teeth into these four resources, and you may just become the nutrition guru in your practice.
- Sample form: Get the whole scoop on a pet's diet in "
16 essential nutritional history questions ."
- Find out how to promote the latest nutritional health practices in "
Put the AAHA nutrition assessment guidelines to work ."
- Discover what may be lying underneath the surface in "
What else to look for when assigning a BCS ."
- Help clients treat their pets right in "
Two tips for allocating treats ."
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