Welcome to our resource hub, dedicated to helping you keep your feline friend happy and healthy. Here, you'll find expert-backed guides on feline nutrition, weight management tips, and dietary recommendations. Click each underlined section to bring you to each item!
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Following a Weight Loss Plan for Cats VCA Canada: This article explains the importance of weight loss for overweight cats, highlighting health risks like diabetes and arthritis while providing guidance on safe, vet-supervised weight management. It covers diet recommendations, portion control, exercise tips, and strategies to ensure gradual, healthy weight loss.
MER Calorie Calculator for Cats Purina Institute:This interactive tool has been designed to help you with nutritional recommendations. Enter your patient's age group, weight, body condition score (BCS), and dietary goals (maintain or lose weight) to reveal estimated ideal weight if pet were in ideal BCS, and estimated daily caloric needs (maintenance energy requirements, or MER).
Deciphering Cat Food Labels VCA Canada: Evaluating cat food labels is arguably one of the most challenging tasks that pet owners face. On one hand, a food label is an important way for the pet food manufacturers to communicate nutritional information. On the other hand, food labeling requirements for cat foods vary significantly from labeling requirements for human food, making them difficult to decipher.
A Quick Guide to DeChonking The Big House: A practical DeChonking Guide following the plans we use at the Big House.