American society as a whole should be aware of the importance of nutrition and its effect on health. The information is readily available everywhere you look. The fact that so many of us choose not to embrace this knowledge is baffling to me. I would hope that the pet-owning public will do for our dogs and cats what we often don’t do for ourselves. Please remember your pet’s health and well being is completely in your hands.

Cat and Dog nutrition can be simple if you don’t try to complicate it.

A balanced diet contains optimal proportions of all essential feline and canine nutrition ingredients so that they can be utilized with maximal efficiency for any specified purpose. Optimal amounts of each nutrient are best provided as a range rather than a single value because of the variation between animal’s size, weight, activity level and health. In addition, a broad range of hair coats, body types, temperaments and environmental settings all complicate the estimation of pet nutrition requirements.

Pet nutrition requirements are broad in undemanding situations, such as maintenance of an adult pet in comfortable surroundings. The range narrows under more demanding situations, such as growth, breeding, hard work and stress.