Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.
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Body Condition Assessment
Although there are many benefits to maintaining a healthy weight in pets, many owners do not understand what a healthy weight is or the benefits for pets.
6 min to 10 min
Maintaining a healthy weight in pets provides many health advantages, but many pet owners are uncertain about how to manage their pet’s weight.
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
An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.
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.