1) Preventive nutrition through ideal weight maintenance and evidence-based supplements can help prevent many common diseases in pets. 2) Maintaining an ideal weight through calorie control, exercise and expert assessment can help dogs and cats live 15% longer on average with fewer health issues. 3) Supplements like fish oils, joint supplements, and probiotics have evidence to support their use in treating diseases like osteoarthritis, inflammatory skin conditions, and kidney and heart disease when used under veterinary supervision.

1. Preventative Nutrition = Ideal Weight & Evidence Based Supplements

2. Preventive Nutrition is the key to wellness & vitality!

3. (Pet) Food is an emotional issue….

7. Preventing dental problems with nutrition

8. Internal organ problems are caused by dental disease Kidney, heart, diabetes, pancreatitis, discospondylitis, others

9. In a national survey only 4% of clients brush their pets teeth daily!

11. Prevention by Nutritional Products Daily brushing is still the best!

12. Veterinary Oral Health Council vohc.org

13. Getting & keeping pets at their ideal weight

15. Body Condition Score (BCS) is a vital step in our nutritional assessment of pets

18. 1 ) How is Ideal weight defined? 2) What % of pets do we see that we consider to have reached their ideal weight? The tough questions!

19. How do we get dogs to lose weight?

21. What about cats?

22. My personal challenges!

23. Just how does one go about exercising a cat??????

24. Osteoarthritis

25. Osteoarthritis Treatment

29. Joint supplements

33. Some pets are just so embarrassed…. Facebook.com/westsidefamilypet