Home-Made Diets
If you would like to further discuss whether a home-made diet is best for your pet, you may schedule a nutrition consultation with us.
We will review your pet's medical and diet history, evaluate his or her current diet, discuss appropriate feeding strategies for your pet, answer your nutrition questions and provide written recommendations to you and your veterinarian for commercial diets, treats and supplements (if applicable) to meet your pet's individual nutritional needs.
Additional information about home-made diets can be obtained from the following sources.
Websites:
A. http://www.balanceit.com/ provides three different sites:
- A "Pet Lover's" site, "For anyone who wants to create homemade pet food for their healthy adult pet or buy Balance IT® supplements": https://secure.balanceit.com/_clients2/index.php
- A "Vet express site, “For veterinarians who want the easiest & fastest way to create homemade pet food for their adult patients": https://secure.balanceit.com/_vets/index.php
- And a "Professional" site that "provides Balance IT® web-based nutrition software for veterinarians
that
- provides a centralized database of commercial pet food
- creates custom feeding plans for patients
- automatically formulates homemade pet
food"
http://balanceit.com/p01_index.php
B. http://www.petdiets.com/ is operated by Veterinary Nutritional Consultations, Inc. is an independent consulting group for professionals in the practice of veterinary medicine and individual pet owners seeking nutritional advice.
They provide:
- An interactive online tool to create and download homemade diets for your healthy cat or dog. https://www.petdiets.com/CustomDiet/default.asp
- Personalized nutritional consultations through the client’s veterinarian. https://www.petdiets.com/Consult/default.asp
- A Nutrition library containing a collection of articles specifically designed for pet owners. http://www.petdiets.com/library/category.asp
Both sites are operated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists.
