Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats

This text combines essential information about dogs and cats in one volume, providing details on carbohydrates, fibre, dietary fats and fatty acids, energy, protein, amino acids, minerals, vitamins and water. This comprehensive work includes: updated estimates of requirements for all nutrients; factors affecting food intake; commentary on nutrient metabolism, toxicity, deficiency and nutritionally related disease; impacts of physiologic status, temperature, breed, age, physical and environment on nutrician; unique biological characteristics affecting nutrient digestion; considerations of feed ingredients, diet formulation, and feed processing and manufacturing; and the principles of feeding pet and laboratory animals.