Resources to help evaluate a pet's current nutrition and guide nutrition recommendations.
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Type
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Body Condition Assessment
The Purina Body Condition System is an easy and practical tool for assessing a pet's body composition.
1 min to 5 min
Making a Diet Recommendation
Nutritional assessment uses an iterative process to make specific diet recommendations tailored to individual dogs and cats.
Muscle Condition Assessment
Muscle condition scoring is a hands-on method for evaluating lean body mass that can be used as part of nutritional assessments.
Nutritional Assessment
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.
Pets should be evaluated for the presence of nutrition-related risk factors as part of a screening nutritional assessment.
Fecal Scoring Assessment
Identifying which part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is involved is a first step in diagnosing GI problems.
An extended nutritional evaluation is important for pets at risk for nutrition-related problems.