Key Features
Full color design
New format making the text easier to use
Feeding plans are color coded and easy to find
Coverage of dogs, cats, birds, reptiles and small mammals
Forty percent new information including 6 new chapters and 20 new cases
Over 125 authors and contributors
Most comprehensive, practical small animal nutrition resource available
Organization
The book is organized into 23 sections to facilitate location of information. Section 1 (Principles of Small Animal Clinical Nutrition)
begins with an overview of the iterative process of clinical nutrition
with emphasis on patient assessment, development of a comprehensive
feeding plan and reassessment or monitoring the patient. The other
chapters in this section address basic nutrition information. There are
four new chapters in this section including:
- Evidence-Based Clinical Nutrition
- Health Literacy and Client Compliance
- Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics: Nutritional Genomics in Health and Disease
- Antioxidants
Section 2 (Pet Foods) covers a wide range of topics about
commercial and homemade pet foods. This section ends with a unique
chapter on pet food safety, which is an important topic in this era of
increased concerns and public debate about safety of pet and human
foods.
Sections 3 through 5 (Nutritional Management of Healthy Dogs and Cats)
provide important information about how to feed dogs and cats with the
goals of optimizing wellness and performance. For easier access, these
chapters have been updated and subdivided according to lifestage and
reproductive activity. Section 4 contains feeding information for
working and sporting dogs.
Sections 6 through 21
cover dietary management of patients with clinical disorders. All
chapters have been extensively updated and two new chapters and
multiple new cases have been added:
- Nutritional Management of Osteoarthritis
- Cognitive Dysfunction in Dogs
Section 22 (Feeding Small Mammals, Reptiles and Pet Birds)
is included in response to numerous requests for practical feeding
information for these patients. Birds, rodents, ferrets, rabbits and
reptiles were once considered exotic pets but today are common
veterinary patients.
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