• Do you quibble with the kibble that comes in a bag?
• Worry about the preservatives being peddled to your pet?
• Does your dog have a bad heart, or your cat kidney problems?
• Do they need something special not found in stores?

For pet owners and veterinarians fed up with commercially prepared pet food, this book offers sound advice about nutritional alternatives. With over 200 recipes and a wealth of information about pets' special needs, it makes a healthy diet for cats and dogs easy, sensible, and rewarding.

With an eye on the long-term health of pets, Dr. Strombeck outlines diets that the caregiver can prepare at home or in the clinic. He offers nutritional and dietary guidance for animals with particular problems, from obesity, allergies, and gastrointestinal complaints to diseases of the kidney, pancreas, heart, and joints.

Each recipe includes nutrient content for proteins, fats, and calories and all rely on unprocessed foods that are widely available and marketed for human consumption.

Full of useful information about the nutritional and dietary needs of cats and dogs, this book will be an indispensable guide for all those who are particular about what they feed their pets or their feline and canine patients.

Contents

Food Quality and Safety

1. Introduction
2. Food quality and wholesomeness
3. Food safety and preparation

Feeding Normal Dogs and Cats

4. Canine and feline energy requirements
5. Feeding a normal dog or cat

Food Intolerance and Allergy

6. Adaptation to the diet
7. Evaluation of gastrointestinal disease
8. Diet and gastrointestinal
9. Digestive tract environment: protection of its integrity
10. Diet and skin disease

Diet-Induced Disease

11. Feeding to manage obesity
12. Diet-related skeletal and joint diseases in dogs

Dietary Management of Disease

13. Diet and chronic renal disease
14. Diet and urinary tract stone disease
15. Diet and endocrine disease
16. Diet and heart disease
17. Diet and pancreatic disease
18. Diet and hepatic disease

Index

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