Eat Well, Live Well: Understanding Pet Nutrition

Eat Well, Live Well: Understanding Pet Nutrition

You’ve probably seen the aisles of pet food at your local store, but choosing a product is far from easy. You want to get the right food, but with so many special formulas, flavors, and fads (not to mention the pricing), how do you know what’s best? Tackling pet nutrition may seem daunting at first, […]

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Food Allergies In Pets

Food Allergies In Pets

Food Allergies: What is best? – Grain free, limited ingredient, hydrolyzed? Over the past several years, food allergies have become a recognized condition in pets. Because of this the food market has been flooded with a host of “allergy friendly” or “hypoallergenic” pet foods. So how do you know what is right for your pet? […]

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Guinea Pig Nutrition

Guinea Pig Nutrition

Guinea pigs develop dietary preferences early in life and do not adapt readily to changes in type, appearance, or presentation of their food or water.  The optimum diet for a guinea pig should contain guinea pig pellets, grass hay and supplemented with fresh vegetables.  Guinea pigs are completely herbivorous and enjoy a variety of leafy […]

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Rabbit Nutrition by Dr. Ashleigh Rhoades

Rabbit Nutrition by Dr. Ashleigh Rhoades

The most important part of the rabbit’s diet is an unlimited supply of grass hay.  Grass hay provides essential fiber as well as proteins, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates.  Hay also provides some of the work needed to keep the teeth worn down due to all of the chewing the rabbit needs to do to break […]

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Holiday Gifts

Holiday Gifts

It’s the time of year for gift giving, and many people include their pets in this tradition.  Here are some safe, fun suggestions for making Fido and Fluffy part of this holiday season: Personalized ID tags or collars with your contact information on them are a great way to help make sure your pet makes […]

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Iams Dry Cat Food Recall

Iams Dry Cat Food Recall

If you use Iams Veterinary Formulas Feline Renal cat food, you’ll want to check the Lot and UPC Codes listed in this article from the American Veterinary Medical Association: Procter & Gamble is voluntarily recalling two specific lots of its therapeutic renal dry cat food as a precautionary measure, because it could be contaminated with […]

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