Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXV, Issue 2
Written by Silvia Ioana PETRESCU, Ioan Mircea POP
Obesity has become one of the main health problems affecting progressively dogs and cats, being one of the essential medical topics in veterinary clinics. Veterinarians and nurses have identified an increase in the frequency of overweight or obese patients presenting at the clinic, and the causes highlighted by them regarding the weight gain of dogs and cats are a sedentary lifestyle, ad libitum food consumption, poor quality food, and associated conditions detected too late, of which the owners are not aware until further medical investigations. Therefore, the creation of a nutritional management plan for patients suffering from obesity or obesity complicated by other conditions was necessary to achieve the goal: a healthy weight for the pet.
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