Small Animal Nutrition

With a comprehensive review of your pet’s medical history and an evaluation of their current diet, our board-certified veterinary nutritionist can provide recommendations for feeding your pet – whether they’re healthy or have a medical condition. Diets can be formulated with preferred ingredients to meet your pet’s unique needs.

Every 45-minute consultation appointment includes:

• Review of your pet’s medical records, weight, body condition, and muscle condition
• Extensive review of pet’s nutritional history, including medications, supplements, diets, etc.
• Recommendations for additional diagnostics (when applicable) and monitoring with your vet
• Creation of an individualized diet plan (commercial, home-prepared, or both)

Services

Diet analysis

A comprehensive review of your pet’s current diet plan using food composition data from the United States Department of Agriculture’s nutrient database.

Commercial diet feeding plan recommendations

Selecting a commercial diet can be an overwhelming experience. We can help navigate the wide range of options available and create a diet plan for your pet.

Home-prepared diet formulation

Tailored to your pet’s dietary needs and food preferences, home-prepared diets provide the most flexibility, especially for pets with medical conditions.

We do not formulate raw, vegetarian, or vegan diets. We do not formulate home-prepared diets for puppies and kittens (under 1 year) unless they have an underlying medical condition.

For healthy pets

Customized home prepared diet plans start with a review of the diet history. After identifying the ingredients your pet will enjoy, a unique recipe is created for your pet.

For pets with medical conditions (like obesity, gastrointestinal disease, kidney disease, and liver disease)

After carefully reviewing your pet’s medical and diet history, we identify ingredients to create a unique recipe that will meet the specific needs of your pet’s medical condition.

Conditions we treat

Performing a diet analysis and creating an individualized diet plan can help ease symptoms of various medical conditions, including:

• Gastrointestinal disease
• Pancreatitis
• Liver disease
• Kidney disease
• Urinary stones
• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Critical care
• Assisted feeding
• Combination of medical conditions