Nutrition
Prescription Diets and Therapeutic Diets  Find out what brands are available and what these diets can do.
What Is The Best Dry Food?  Learn how to determine for yourself what "the best" dry dog food is.
Nutrition Basics   This is a good starting point for an overview of nutrition and pet health care.
Nutrition, the Foundation of Good Health The foundation of good health has been undermined by false, misleading, and profit-driven marketing.  It's time to clear the muddy water drowning the basic principles of feeding dogs and cats.  Hang on because what you will learn may surprise you!
What Does "Natural Pet Food" Mean?  Read this article for some up to date guidelines.
Contrasting Grain-based and Meat-based diets for dogs and cats.
Feeding Bones To Your Dog?  You might choose not to  after seeing this!
Nutritional Composition of Bone  Of what nutritional value are  whole, raw bones?
What You Should Know You and your veterinarian should ask one more question. Find out what that question is and you may have a totally new outlook on those cheap, grain-based pet foods that say Complete and Balanced on the label.
Cats Are Different! We all can list the obvious attributes that make cats different from dogs.  Now take a look into the cat's unique and unseen internal chemical factory to see how cats really are different from dogs.
The Overweight Pet You can do it!  You can get that dog to lose weight.  Here's how.
Obesity In Cats   Feline obesity seems to be an epidemic!  Find out what you can do about the overweight cat.
Fatty Acids... Just what are these, anyway?
Glucosamine and Chondroitin  Take a look at what these supplements can and cannot do.
What's So Bad About Protein?  We've all heard that "too much protein is bad for dog's kidneys".  It's a myth!  Here's why...
Starvation Recovery... How To Care For A Severely Malnourished Dog
Weight reducing diets... where have we gone wrong?  Find out here.

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