Good nutrition promotes good quality of life and helps your pet stay healthy, happy and active longer. High quality foods help their skin and coat to be healthier, help their immune system to be stronger, and improve their whole body health. A good food provides complete and balanced nutrition for you pet. It provides the proper mixture of minerals and nutrients to support them. Adding other foods, people food, excessive amounts of treats, or vitamins to a high-quality diet is not necessary and may be detrimental. Nutritional deficiencies/excesses can lead to severe health problems to include allergies, heart disease, kidney disease, and other organ dysfunction. Pick a food appropriate to your pet’s life stage (i.e. kitten/puppy, adult, senior). It is also very important that dogs eat dog food and cats eat cat food. Cats require specific ingredients and higher levels of protein than dogs do. There are now many choices of foods which address other issues as well: large breed, sensitive stomach, sensitive skin, etc. Diets the veterinarians at Grantview Animal Hospital do NOT recommend include boutique/exotic/grain free diets, or raw or home cooked diets that are not properly balanced and pose a risk to your pets and family. Diets the veterinarians DO recommend are Hills Science Diet, Purina Pro Plan, and Royal Canin. We generally trust a diet that has passed an AAFCO food trial. Check out our online pharmacy to get these quality diets sent to your front door!
Giant breeds such as Great Danes, Irish wolfhounds, and giant schnauzers have unique dietary requirements. Very few commercial puppy foods offer the ideal mix of calcium, energy, and protein levels…
