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College of Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Medical Center

Hospital for Companion Animals

Home-Made Diets

We recommend the following links to veterinarians and individual pet owners looking for recipes for homemade diets.

Websites:

A.  http://www.balanceit.com/  provides three different sites:

  1. 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 
  2. 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
  3. 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:

  1. An interactive online tool to create and download homemade diets for your healthy cat or dog. https://www.petdiets.com/CustomDiet/default.asp
  2. Personalized nutritional consultations through the client’s veterinarian. https://www.petdiets.com/Consult/default.asp
  3. 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.