Nutrition
Cats and Dogs
With a comprehensive review of your pet’s medical history and an evaluation of their current diet, our board-certified veterinary nutritionist can provide recommendations for feeding your pet – whether they’re healthy or have a medical condition. Diets can be formulated with preferred ingredients to meet your pet’s unique needs.
Every 45-minute consultation appointment includes:
- Review of your pet’s medical records, weight, body condition, and muscle condition
- Extensive review of pet’s nutritional history, including medications, supplements, diets, etc.
- Recommendations for additional diagnostics (when applicable) and monitoring with your vet
- Creation of an individualized diet plan (commercial, home-prepared, or both)
Contact Us
- For referrals, complete the referral form.
- For rechecks, complete the returning client form.
- For consultations and questions, email us at [email protected].
Nutrition services
Diet analysis
A comprehensive review of your pet’s current diet plan using food composition data from the United States Department of Agriculture’s nutrient database.
Commercial diet feeding plan recommendations
Selecting a commercial diet can be an overwhelming experience. We can help navigate the wide range of options available and create a diet plan for your pet.
Home-prepared diet formulation
Tailored to your pet’s dietary needs and food preferences, home-prepared diets provide the most flexibility, especially for pets with medical conditions.
We do not formulate raw, vegetarian, or vegan diets. We do not formulate home-prepared diets for puppies and kittens (under 1 year) unless they have an underlying medical condition.
- For healthy pets: Customized home prepared diet plans start with a review of the diet history. After identifying the ingredients your pet will enjoy, a unique recipe is created for your pet.
- For pets with medical conditions (like obesity, gastrointestinal disease, kidney disease, and liver disease): After carefully reviewing your pet’s medical and diet history, we identify ingredients to create a unique recipe that will meet the specific needs of your pet’s medical condition.
Conditions we treat
Performing a diet analysis and creating an individualized diet plan can help ease symptoms of various medical conditions, including:
- Gastrointestinal disease
- Pancreatitis
- Liver disease
- Kidney disease
- Urinary stones
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Critical care
- Assisted feeding
- Combination of medical conditions
A referral is required to visit the Nutrition service. To request an appointment, ask your veterinarian to complete the referral form and email your pet’s medical records. Once we have received your referral, our veterinary nutrition team will contact you to complete client forms and schedule an appointment.
If you are a returning nutrition client, please complete the returning client form. If it’s been more than six months since we’ve seen your pet and they have had any lab work done since your last nutrition appointment, email your pet’s updated medical records.
Appointment options:
- In person
- Virtual (via Zoom)
- Phone
A referral from the patient’s primary care veterinarian is required to schedule a veterinary nutrition appointment. To refer a case, complete the nutrition referral form and email pertinent patient information.
Nutrition team
Specialists in diet formulation for dogs and cats.
Location
Appointments take place at the Veterinary Hospital and Education Complex.
Real care, real moments
With a comprehensive review of your pet’s medical history and an evaluation of their current diet, our board-certified veterinary nutritionist can provide recommendations for feeding your pet – whether they’re healthy or have a medical condition. Diets can be formulated with preferred ingredients to meet your pet’s unique needs.
Taking care of your animal
