NUTRITIONAL & CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Maintaining a healthy weight in pets provides many health advantages, but many pet owners are uncertain about how to manage their pet’s weight.

The Progress Chart should be used with the Canine Body Condition System Sheet to help track a pet’s weight loss or gain.

Share these tips with pet owners to help them understand what makes a food elimination trial successful.

This screening form provides a practical, easy-to-use questionnaire that can help clients provide important information for the diagnosis of idiopathic epilepsy in dogs.

This short, screening diet history form is a practical, easy-to-use document that can help clients provide important information about their pets’ diets.

Using your patient’s age group with current weight and body condition score, this feeding calculator will provide estimated daily caloric needs to reach or maintain ideal body condition.

Using your patient’s age group with current weight and body condition score, this feeding calculator will provide estimated daily caloric needs to reach or maintain ideal body condition.

The Purina Body Condition System is an easy and practical tool for assessing a pet's body composition.​

The only way to know what each patient really eats is to ask ꟷ and document the information in the medical record.

Assessing a patient’s nutritional status is a recurring process that entails more than taking a diet history.

An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.

Pets should be evaluated for the presence of nutrition-related risk factors as part of a screening nutritional assessment.