The Purina Fecal Scoring Chart is a practical, easy-to-use tool that can help clients describe their pets’ stools.

This short, screening diet history form is a practical, easy-to-use document that can help clients provide important information about their pets’ diets.

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

Various cooking processes are used in preparing commercial pet foods to ensure delivery of highly nutritious, palatable products. The methods used are determined by the final form (e.g., a dry or wet food), desired texture and visual properties, and packaging. Common forms of pet food include dry extruded kibbles and canned wet food.

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

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.

Identifying which part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is involved is a first step in diagnosing GI problems.