What Treats Can I Give My Dog With Kidney Disease?
Consistently feeding your pet a therapeutic diet for kidney disease can help him to live longer and feel better and you can still have some creativity/flexibility through treats.
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Pets with Health Conditions
The Skinny on Fat: Part 1 – The Basics
There is a lot of confusion regarding fat in pet foods. In this two-part series, we will explain what types of fat your pet needs and what health conditions may benefit from more or less fat
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Is Your Pet on a Veterinary Therapeutic Diet? Tips Your Vet Wants You to Know
Here are some tips to make sure your pet’s therapeutic diet is providing the greatest health benefit and value for your money.
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Baby food: When puppies and kittens need a therapeutic diet
What happens when your growing pet has a health issue that requires a special diet? Read on learn about how you need a diet that not only helps manage the disease but also meets all nutritional requirements.
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Don’t Sugar Coat It: The Best Diets for Cats with Diabetes
Diabetes is a common disease in cats and affects cats’ ability to properly process sugar. Diet can play an important role in the management of diabetes., but not all the information out there about feeding diabetic cats is accurate. We review what is known about feeding diabetic cats.
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Can Joint Diets Help My Dog’s Pain?
Many pet food companies have come out with specific veterinary therapeutic joint diets that have claims to decrease joint pain from arthritis.So what makes these diets different?
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What’s Your Pet’s Score? Assessing Muscle Condition
Muscle condition score is an often overlooked part of assessing the nutritional and health status of pets. We discuss what a muscle condition score is and how to assess your pet.
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Five Ways Being Overweight Can Harm Your Dog’s Health
Though dogs may not have to be worried about being made fun of by other dogs at the dog park, being overweight has been linked with many conditions that can affect a dog’s health including…
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Copper-Associated Liver Disease in Dogs
The accumulation of too much copper in the liver is a common cause of liver disease in some breeds of dog. Both medications and diet are used to manage this condition in dogs.
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Feeding pets with cancer
Many pet owners change their pets diets after a diagnosis of cancer. But which changes are likely to be effective versus which ones may cause more harm than good?
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