Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.
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Body Condition Assessment
The Purina Body Condition System is an easy and practical tool for assessing a pet's body composition.
1 min to 5 min
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.
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.
An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.