Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.
Species
Category
Type
Read/Watch time
Cognition Assessment
A useful tool to monitor cognitive function in dogs.
1 min to 5 min
Fecal Scoring Assessment
The Purina Fecal Scoring Chart is a practical, easy-to-use tool that can help clients describe their pets’ stools.
Making a Diet Recommendation
Nutritional assessment uses an iterative process to make specific diet recommendations tailored to individual dogs and cats.
Nutritional Assessment
The only way to know what each patient really eats is to ask ꟷ and document the information in the medical record.
This short, screening diet history form is a practical, easy-to-use document that can help clients provide important information about their pets’ diets.
Identifying which part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is involved is a first step in diagnosing GI problems.
A practical, easy-to-use chart that helps localize diarrhea to the small or large intestine.
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.