NUTRITIONAL & CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS

A simple visual guide to help assess muscle mass in dogs.

Using your patient’s age group with current weight and body condition score, this feeding calculator will provide estimated daily caloric needs to reach or maintain ideal body condition.

Assess a dog's Body Condition Score in just 3 simple steps.​

Nutritional assessment uses an iterative process to make specific diet recommendations tailored to individual dogs and cats.

Using your patient’s age group with current weight and body condition score, this feeding calculator will provide estimated daily caloric needs to reach or maintain ideal body condition.

An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.

Assessing a patient’s nutritional status is a recurring process that entails more than taking a diet history.

Learn why effective communication about pet nutrition is essential for improving pet health outcomes, building client trust, and fostering collaboration between pet owners and veterinary health care teams.

Hospitalized patients are at risk for malnutrition, whether they are experiencing an acute or chronic condition. Recognition and treatment of malnutrition should be prioritized in hospitalized dogs and cats to improve health outcomes. 

Learn how agenda setting, a specific communication strategy, can improve client satisfaction, their adherence to veterinary recommendations, and appointment efficiency.

A practical, easy-to-use chart that helps localize diarrhea to the small or large intestine.

The Progress Chart should be used with the Canine Body Condition System Sheet to help track a pet’s weight loss or gain.