Professional pet food and prescriptiond diets

Prerna Vaswani-Thadani Hi all, I have a question about pet food..
some studies suggest that pet food is good to feed, and is balanced nutritionally.
other studies suggest that it can be hazardous in the long run causing kidney failure, etc.
your views?

18 June at 13:25 · Comment · · Flag

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    Swarupmay Majumdar both are correct in their own way

    18 June at 16:21 ·
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    Gurpreet Singh Chahal If the pet food is contaminated then it can cause lot of problems. Like a year or two ago in US, some of the ingredients coming in from China were contaminated and caused renal issues in dogs.

    18 June at 18:34 ·
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    Nassem N. Naimi

    I Believe this is highly depended on many factors Like i don't think those two studies relied on the same diet.
    When giving Dry food for example you should give an open source water for the pet other wise the pet will loose water which as we...See more

    19 June at 09:23 ·
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    Prerna Vaswani-Thadani hmm ok, thanks.

    19 June at 13:32 ·
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    Prerna Vaswani-Thadani ‎..and also what about those prescription diets? are they a good substitute for supplements? for eg-mobility support (royal canin) is given to dogs having arthritis...and supplements such as omega 3 acids, chondroitin sulpahte etc need not be given...

    21 June at 13:19 ·
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    Nassem N. Naimi I went to the website R.C. but they didn't mention anything but personally it is mentioned that it is a support diet not supplementation diet.
    So I will give the Supplementation.

    21 June at 16:12 ·
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    Joseph Cyrus Pet food highly scientific!

    21 June at 19:09 ·
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    Nassem N. Naimi but is it enough? like we give the pet the diet without supplements ??

    21 June at 19:13 ·
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    Nassem N. Naimi aha Like if I got a dog with a join problem instead of giving him supplements I can prescribe the diet for him???
    without giving the dog 1 injection
    I am really asking as I never experienced that

    21 June at 19:16 ·
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    Joseph Cyrus No I think you got me wrong. If the diet is balanced then why supplements. If you can correct or help relieve chronic problems with the aid of a nutraceutical then that would seem more ideal to me. If you consider the nutraceutical market there is little that has been explored. A commercial diet does work well in most animals.

    21 June at 19:22 ·