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Home-prepared dog & cat diets : the healthful alternative /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strombeck, Donald R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University Press, 1999.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Dogs.
Cats.
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
Dog Diseases > diet therapy.
Cat Diseases > diet therapy.
Animal Feed.
Cooking.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Food quality and safety
  • Introduction
  • Food quality and wholesomeness
  • Food safety and preparation
  • Pt. 2. Feeding normal dogs and cats
  • Canine and feline energy requirements
  • Feeding a normal dog or cat
  • Pt. 3. Food intolerance and allergy
  • Adaptation to the diet
  • Evaluation of gastrointestinal disease
  • Diet and gastrointestinal disease
  • Digestive tract environment: protection of its integrity
  • Diet and skin disease
  • Pt. 4. Diet-induced disease
  • Feeding to manage obestiy
  • Diet-related skeletal and joint diseaes in dogs
  • Pt. 5. Dietary management of disease
  • Diet and chronic renal disease.
  • Diet and urinary tract stone disease
  • Diet and endocrine disease
  • Diet and heart disease
  • Diet and pancreatic disease
  • Diet and hepatic disease.