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Originally Posted by ladyjane  Some vets are not good with diets...I agree. I just think that sometimes when people start advising people online they don't always have the full picture of what is going on. I believe a vet knows more about how organs work together and how lab results are interpreted. There are many gray areas...nothing is black and white. I much prefer to listen to my vet about what I need to feed....not necessarily what FOOD, but certainly what I should be feeding in terms of calories, fat, and protein, etc. I see people advising people what to feed based on a diagnosis and how they interpret lab studies and I don't agree with that. I believe that the vet should tell the person...low fat or whatever....then, I can see advising them on different foods.
I had my vet do a telephone consult with the vet who is the head of Clinical Nutrition at Texas A&M Small Animal Services. Anyone can do that...they do not have to physically go there. If a pup has had a full workup, no need to go physically...records can be faxed. |
I agree but i have to say i was not impressed with ucdavis
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also i had a client come to me and tell me her dog was to give like 10 tums a day for calcium and she was furious she paid so much for a diet and so she used bone meal as she did not want to use tums so i still have a question mark myself on the diets. It is a very complicated thing. I do say if it works stick with it and do not vary with a sick dog as dex it took me a year after his pancreatic attack to figure what caused it and it came down to potato in diet inflaming small intestines triggering the attacks. He has been great for 4 years on purina ha now do i think it is the best diet ever NO WAY but it works so he will eat that for life lollll i have people that say that is a bad diet etc but i am not taking any chances after 10,000 i spent to get him right. Pancreatitis is extremely expensive to treat and can lead to other diseases and i will not take any chances with dex EVER he gets purina ha and that is it and he gets it as a treat and he gets just as excited as he did with treats prior so if it is not broke do not fix it i say