The Best Online Pet Nutrition Resources

WSAVA Nutrition Toolkit

WSAVA have developed a series of pet nutrition resources to help vets and nurses in practice. These include: A nutritional assessment checklist, dietary history form, body and muscle condition scoring charts and feeding guidelines for hospitalised patients. In addition, they have also developed some fantastic resources for pet owners such as the savvy dog and cat owners guide to nutrition on the internet. Let’s face it; we are all guilty of using Dr Google. We are never going to be able to stop people from researching on the internet but at least we can provide some guidelines on how they should be interpreting this information.

Pet Nutrition Alliance

This site provides a series of tools and resources that the whole veterinary healthcare team can use. Of particular use are the sections covering communicating nutritional recommendations to clients, patient assessment and creating nutritional plans.

Hill’s Healthy Weight Protocol

With around 50% of dogs and cats classified as overweight or obese, getting pets to successfully lose weight is one of our biggest nutritional challenges. Talking about weight with clients can be a difficult conversation, but the problem of pet obesity cannot be left unaddressed.  The Hill’s Healthy Weight Protocol is an objective and clinically proven diagnostic tool to help you talk about weight and reinforce your recommendations with clients. The site allows you to accurately assess an overweight patient’s ideal weight using body fat index charts and morphometric measurements, create a customised feeding plan and monitor progress in order to keep patients on track to successful weight loss.

AAFCO Talks Pet Food

If you are after a concise guide to pet food standards, ingredient definitions and descriptive terms, it is all available via this website. The site also provides information on how to read a pet food label if you need a quick refresher.

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