Handling alternative dietary requests from pet owners

Jacqueline M Parr; Rebecca L Remillard

doi:10.1016/j.cvsm.2014.03.006

Handling alternative dietary requests from pet owners

Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 2014 Jul;44(4):667-88, v. doi: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2014.03.006.

Authors

Jacqueline M Parr¹, Rebecca L Remillard²

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Nutrition Service, Department of Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road West, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada; On Parr Nutrition, Inc, Guelph, ON N1G4S7, Canada. Electronic address: parr@uoguelph.ca.
² Nutrition Service, Small and Large Animal Nutrition, Molecular Biomedical Science Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 1052 William Moore Drive, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA; Veterinary Nutritional Consultations, Inc, 1002 Capps Farm Road, Hollister, NC 27844, USA; Consultant Rayne Clinical Nutrition LLC, Po Box 481813, Kansas City, MO 64148, USA.

PMID: 24951340
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2014.03.006

Abstract

The goal of this article was to provide veterinary practitioners with an overview of the types of alternative dietary options available to pet owners and a practical method by which to evaluate the nutritional adequacy of these various options. Our approach to categorizing the alternative dietary options is based on the nutritional adequacy of these dietary options, because patients will be at risk for nutrition-related diseases if fed a nutritionally incomplete or improperly balanced diet long term.

Keywords: Alternative diets; Commercial pet foods; Homemade diets (cooked, raw); Nutritional adequacy; Nutritional assessment; Unconventional diets.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animal Feed / analysis
Animal Feed / standards*
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / physiology*
Animals
Cats / physiology*
Dogs / physiology*
Nutritional Requirements*
Nutritive Value*