Introduction to Dog Nutrition | Body Condition and Calculating Energy Requirements
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Assessing your dog's weight and calculating how much food to feed can be very challenging! Today, I am going to walk you through how to assess your dog's body condition and how to calculate caloric needs. We will also talk about some healthy snacks you can feed.
On a related note, many of our pets are overweight, or even obese. If you would like more information specifically pertaining to obesity, check out my other video at • Causes and Medical Com...
For more information on which human foods to avoid and which are safe, check out my food safety video here: • Cats and Dogs Food Saf...
My hope is to help make reliable information more available and accessible for pet owners, so if you have any topics that you would like me to talk about, please let me know in the comments below!
For more information, check out the links below:
World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) Body Condition Scoring
www.wsava.org/WSAVA/media/PDF...
OSU Veterinary Medical Center Basic Calorie Calculator
vet.osu.edu/vmc/companion/our...
How to read a pet food label
talkspetfood.aafco.org/readin...
Nutritionix Track App - calorie tracker app
www.nutritionix.com/consumer
ASPCA: Healthy, Safe Snacks to Help Your Pet Slim Down
www.aspca.org/news/healthy-sa...
American College of Veterinary Surgeons: Cranial Cruciate Ligament Disease
www.acvs.org/small-animal/cra...
Five Ways Being Overweight Can Harm Your Dog's Health
vetnutrition.tufts.edu/2017/1...
Canine and feline obesity: a One Health Perspective
veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/cont...
00:00 Intro
04:12. Body Condition Scoring (BCS)
09:52 Calorie calculations: Overview
12:37 Calorie calculations: Math equations
24:57 Healthy snack options 
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Best video ever! She was so helpful and well spoken!
The dog perking up when you brought out the treats was super cute haha
Lol glad you enjoyed :)
This was so helpful! Thank you!
Thank you for this informative video!
Such a helpful video thank you!
Thanks so much for this extremely helpful video!! Trying to gather all the information needed to make good choices for a new rescue pup coming to us in the next month !
Thanks for checking out the channel :) best of luck with your new pup!! :)
Thanks for sharing this information this helps the furry family we have! The body condition level 1-9 was helpful. I’ve seen it on Instagram but didn’t know that it was vet approved charts! Keep up the amazing work!
Yay! So glad you found it helpful 😊
Thanks very much. It was a very useful video.
I'm glad you enjoyed :) thanks for checking out the channel!
Thanks for the hand trick! I had read about it online but had a misconception that your video cleared up
happy to help :)
Hey, so I watched this as part of my Vet Assistant course, but this may also be helpful for my cat. I've been having a problem with him not getting enough, so having that equation, or rather the reminder of that equation even, could actually help me :)
Thank you. I'm currently studying small animal nutrition and this video has really helped me.
Awesome!! Animal nutrition is definitely a challenging area of medicine that is often overlooked and I'm so happy to hear that I was able to help in your studies :)
I just love small Animals
Nice. I wonder where you are studying? I haven’t found much info about it
Really great video! The comments are terrible, but you have been so helpful. Fingers crossed I will ace my test. I owe it to you! Thank you for going slow.
Thank you :) I'm very glad that you found it helpful! When people post negative comments, RUclips still counts it as an interaction so they are ironically promoting the video 😅 everyone's entitled to their own opinion anyway and it doesn't end up hurting anything :)
very informative and easy to follow!! I'm interested in giving my dogs homemade food and this a great intro to canine nutrition - thank you kindly for taking the time to make this video 🥰
Glad you found it helpful 😊
Our furry family deserves the best! 😇
What would the protein in cups be for a 17 pound dog . the mount for vegetables, and carb
Thank you so much for this very helpful video! I'm currently studying to be an RVT and I am also getting a puppy within the next month so I'm definitely doing some doggie homework about feedings! Any suggestions/recommendations on food brands for a golden retriever puppy?
For golden retrievers, I typically like to go with a large breed puppy food :) I would also recommend avoiding grain free as there has been evidence that it contributes to heart disease. There are a lot of good options out there and the most important is to make sure it is balanced :)
Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for. Awesome presentation! I have a 1yo Yorkie (8.4 lbs) and I am preparing to cook his food myself. Not really sure how to measure calories in each serving. Any advice would be helpful.
Great question! I like going to balanceit.com because they'll help you determine the right volume of ingredients to make sure he's getting the right about of calories. Some of the calorie tracking apps for people can also be helpful for checking the calories in specific ingredients
Its a grest video but can you please help me with adding supplements to the food on daily basis
I love your videos! Can you talk about glaucoma? I have a husky and one of her eyes has glaucoma. Thank you it is hard to find good information. 💕💕
Thanks for checking out the channel :) glaucoma would be a good one! Thanks for the idea :)
Great video, super informative is there a cat nutrition video you may have
Unfortunately, I don't currently have an episode on cat nutrition but I might make one in the future. In the meantime, you can actually apply many of the same concepts though :) The resting energy requirements equation that I used in this video would the same for cats so you can calculate calories the same way.
Thank you for this. Our 10 month old always seems to be a meal behind but his weight is ideal and he's showing no signs of illness. I'm guessing he is getting too many treats. Is it true that some breeds, like Huskies, require less calories?
How do you calculate per pound
Can you recommend a site for homemade dog food? Recipes, how much to feed, how to calculate etc
That is a great question! My favorite site to use for homemade dog food is BalanceIT.com. I like this site because it allows you to select certain ingredients that you know you want to use and then will generate several recipe options. If the diet is not fully balanced and needs any supplements, BalanceIT will recommend the appropriate supplements. The site will also guide you in how much to feed and how much to prepare. You can select to adjust the diet for your dog and it will have you enter the dog's weight, as well as your feeding frequency or batch size. I found out about this site from a board-certified veterinary nutritionist so I am confident that they are a reputable source of information :)
I hope this helps! Please let me know how it goes :)
Thanks aa lot for your sharing on the above topic. What is your opinion on feeding dog vegan diet?
Dogs aren’t vegan so it would be a bad idea
From a medical standpoint, it is challenging to feed a vegan diet to a dog, but is possible. Personally, though, I don't think it is a good idea. Dogs aren't inherently vegan, and making them so is a way for us to impose our own beliefs upon them. The exception would be if the dog has allergies to all or most animal protein sources, in which case vegan might be a good choice, but I've never encountered such a situation.
There are plenty of vegan dog foods out there that you can feed your dog. Yes I agree that dogs are obviously not vegan, however if it’s possible to feed your dog a vegan diet, then my opinion is that you should. After all, does it make sense that a dog’s life is worth hundreds if not thousands of other animals being killed just so the dog (one animal) can live? If we call ourselves animal lovers then how can we justify to feed our dog other animals? I’ve spoken to multiple vets in my area and they have all stated that vegan diets are nutritionally adequate for dogs, as long as they contain the required AAFCO stamp of approval. Below is a research paper about meat vs vegetarian diets fed to sled dogs, take a read if you have time. I hope this information was helpful.
www.researchgate.net/publication/26251706_An_experimental_meat-free_diet_maintained_haematological_characteristics_in_sprint-racing_sled_dogs
Thank your for your perspective Mire Farah :) I agree that it is certainly possible to feed vegan to dogs. As long as it is nutritionally balanced, like you said, there should be no problem with a vegan food. I know a lot of people would agree with your perspective about not wanting to feed meat and that's why it's so important that we have vegan diets available.
I personally believe that dogs are meant to eat meat and I prefer to feed mine a diet that contains meat, but I do respect that everyone has their own beliefs on the matter :)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this and taking the time to include reputable resources :)
great video.
please help! i'm so confused. i would like to feed my new pup, 8-month-old gsp mix (some call a Wire Mouth Heeler), a homemade diet. I've been reading about this, and I'm confused about the calcium to phosphorus ration and how to calculate it. I've consulted 4 vets in my area, none of which can help. i think it would be easier to shoot him to the moon. only the internet can give me any guidance; the AAFCO guidelines of 2.0-4.5g per 1000 kcals of calcium and 2.5-4.0g of phosphorus per 1000 kcals.
my question is, can I use a calorie counter for humans to calculate the nutritional numbers for the recipe? not just protein, fat and carbs but also calcium and phosphorus.
jagger is a very active 13.6kg and this comes out to a RER of 495, DEN of 990. i have tried a recipe to see if he would eat it. which he does. the numbers per 5oz are as follows: kcals 167, protein 12, carbs 21, fat 3, calcium 37mg and phosphorus 189mg. I also figured his CCI (33.4x10) to be 334.
if correct, he should receive around 990 kcals a day. this means he would need 25oz (5 servings) of food daily, which seems a lot. this also means, at a minimum, he needs 1.9g of calcium and .811g of phosphorus added to his diet daily.
this is a lot of math for a simpleton like me, please correct me where I'm wrong. thanks, mike
Hi
Is Whey Protein a good alternative to some meat or other protein sources?
I guess it would depend on what you are trying to achieve. What is the motivation behind choosing whey protein?
@@EverydayVet most of meat they sell in low price is chicken meat which is not enough.
OK that makes sense :) I don't know of any issues with whey protein specifically so I would expect it to be fine as long as the diet is balanced. I haven't used it before though in pets so always safest to check with a nutritionist. You would also need to avoid formulations that have other things added to it, like flavoring or other exercise supplements, since they are typically geared towards human athletes. Would also want to make sure it doesn't contain xylitol which is a sweetener that can cause dogs or cats to get very sick.
What about calculating vitamins and minerals that dog needs + omega 3 and omega 6?
If you're using a commercial diet, it should already be balanced with vitamins and minerals. I would recommend calling the company though to make sure that they are using a person with appropriate credentials to formulate the diet. If you're trying to do a home cooked/prepared diet, balanceIt.com is a free site that is pretty reputable or you could always ask your vet for a referral to a veterinary nutritionist to develop the recipe for you. Hope that helps :)
@@EverydayVet Well if I would want to feed commercial diet than I would assume it has all the proportions my dog needs. But I want to feed my dog my own food as I think it is healthier. But ofcourse I don't know enough how many vitamins and minerals it needs so he wouldn't lack something or have too much of something that would cause health issues.
Do you maybe know what kind of test veterinarian can perform to check if nutrition is adequate? I read just blood analysis is not enough because for example calcium is found in blood for normal function and they can leech it out of their bones and this would show normal levels in blood but my dog could be lacking calcium in bones?
There isn't a good test to run on the pet. It's more so based off of dietary analysis. If you use that site I mentioned (balanceIt.com), you should find the guidance you are looking for
@@EverydayVet I checked that website and it is only foods that you can pick and the site just combines them into a recipe and you don't see any nutritional data of that recipe. I don't see where can I check nutritional requirements for my dog.
Oh sorry. I thought they broke things down more. This link is the published aafco guidelines for dogs:
www.merckvetmanual.com/multimedia/table/aafco-nutrient-requirements-for-dogs
Oye mami. What if he’s active and he’s intact?
calorie needs do go up with activity level and based on metabolism. There are multiplication factors that can be used to multiply RER to determine daily needs for more active pets. It varies based on individual though, so I would recommend checking with your vet for the daily calorie target
Get with the times … the obesity caused the injury … surgery is not the answer !!!!! Dogs should never ever eat commercial dog food !!!! Raw meat/organ/bone/super greens/low glycemic fruits !
ALL COMMERCIAL DOG FOOD SLOWLY KILLS YOUR DOG !
You talk a lot for nothing. As if you’re speaking to kindergarten students … oh like like my dogs fat just like like me ! Lol
Yes and I do that intentionally. There are people of various ages watching the video and also people who don't speak English as their native language. I want the videos to be accessible to as many people as possible.
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