"Home-Prepared Dog and Cat Diets is a first-of-its-kind nutrition and dietetics book. It offers owners and breeders a wholesome alternative to commercial pet food and provides veterinarians with a unique reference for counseling clients. Written in clear, easy-to-understand language, this comprehensive reference includes the following: over 200 computer-balanced recipes to provide complete nutrition for healthy or diseased animals; nutrient content data for each recipe, including proteins, fats, and calories; nutritional guidance and descriptions of special diets; recipe categories for management of obesity and diseases that affect the gastrointestinal system, skin, kidneys, heart, liver, and pancreas; and invaluable food quality and safety information."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Food Quality and Safety 1. Introduction 2. Food Quality and Wholesomeness 3. Food Safety and Preparation Pt. 2. Feeding Normal Dogs and Cats 4. Canine and Feline Energy Requirements 5. Feeding a Normal Dog or Cat Pt. 3. Food Intolerance and Allergy 6. Adaptation to the Diet 7. Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Disease 8. Diet and Gastrointestinal Disease 9. Digestive Tract Environment: Protection of Its Integrity

10. Diet and Skin Disease Pt. 4. Diet-Induced Disease 11. Feeding to Manage Obesity 12. Diet-Related Skeletal and Joint Diseases in Dogs Pt. 5. Dietary Management of Disease 13. Diet and Chronic Renal Disease 14. Diet and Urinary Tract Stone Disease 15. Diet and Endocrine Disease 16. Diet and Heart Disease 17. Diet and Pancreatic Disease 18. Diet and Hepatic Disease.