Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.
Species
Category
Type
Read/Watch time
Nutritional Assessment
An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.
1 min to 5 min
Muscle Condition Assessment
Muscle condition scoring is a hands-on method for evaluating lean body mass that can be used as part of nutritional assessments.
Pets should be evaluated for the presence of nutrition-related risk factors as part of a screening nutritional assessment.
Assessing a patient’s nutritional status is a recurring process that entails more than taking a diet history.
The only way to know what each patient really eats is to ask ꟷ and document the information in the medical record.