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Small Animal Nutrition

By: Sandie Agar(Author)
192 pages
Small Animal Nutrition
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  • Small Animal Nutrition ISBN: 9780750645751 Paperback Apr 2001 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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About this book

Small Animal Nutrition is an essential new text relating the theory of digestion and nutrition to practical application in everyday veterinary practice. The basic principles of nutrition are explained, with special attention given to the use of nutrition as a tool in the management of the patient. The student is informed of different nutritional requirements in both sickness and health, and concepts are presents in a light-hearted and easily understood format. Key facts are highlighted and a series of self-assessment questions and answers are provided at the end of each chapter.

This new text explains nutrition in everyday language, and should be an essential purchase for all veterinary students, veterinary nurses and veterinary practices.

Contents

- Components of food: Water
- Protein
- Fats (and oils)
- Carbohydrates
- Dietry fibre
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Antioxidants
- Energy: What is energy?
- Calculating energy requirements
- Energy requirements in sickness
- Energy requirements in health
- Energy content of food
- Palatability and acceptability
- Types of food: Home-made diets
- Proprietary diets
- Labelling of proprietary foods
- Comparisons between different foods
- Variety
- Supplements
- Feeding dogs and cats: Feeding recommendations
- Body condition score
- Feeding the healthy dog and cat
- Timing of meals
- Feeding sick or injured dogs and cats
- Forced or artificial feeding
- Parenteral feeding
- Lifestage foods: Growth phase
- Adult phase
- Pregnancy and lactation
- Neonates
- Geriatric phase
- The gut as an ecosystem: Probiotics
- Prebiotics
- Fatty acids and eicosanoids
- Clinical nutrition: Body systems
- Obesity: Starvation
- Critical care nutrition
- Cancer cachexia
- Skeletal disease
- Neuromuscular disease
- Disorders of the integument
- Food intolerance and sensitivity
- Exclusion diets
- Cardiovascular disease
- The digestive system
- The pancreas
- The liver
- Reproductive disease
- The urinary system
- The endocrine system
- Small furries: Selective feeding
- Rabbits
- Rodents
- Chinchillas
- Chipmunks
- Gerbils
- Guinea-pigs
- Hamsters
- Mice and rats
- Ferrets
- Hand rearing small furries
- Pre- and post-op feeding
- Owner compliance

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By: Sandie Agar(Author)
192 pages
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