Nutrition can play a role in the prevention and management of periodontal disease in dogs and cats.

Nutrition can play a role in the management of halitosis in pets.

Sarcopenia is the age-related loss of lean body mass that occurs unrelated to disease. Targeted nutrition may help delay some changes in body weight and body composition of older pets.

Pet supplements are increasingly popular as owners become more aware of the potential benefits.

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

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.