The sustainable pet food dilemma

Rearing livestock has a cost to the planet; in addition to requiring more land than plant crops to produce equivalent energy, livestock rearing contributes to more soil erosion, has a considerably...

Diet in canine dermatology part 1: nutrition for skin health and support

Veterinary nurses can play a crucial role in assisting with a full dermatological history to aid the diagnosis of any skin disease. As part of this, obtaining a full dietary history from owners is...

The role of nutrition in critical care

Nutrition is essential for good health, but it is particularly important to critically ill patients. This is because they can quickly develop malnutrition, or pre-existing malnutrition is aggravated...

The role of nutrition in the management of cats with diabetes mellitus

It should be noted that if there are concurrent conditions which influence nutritional needs these will usually take precedence, for example concurrent renal disease (Rand and Marshall, 2005)..