Nutrition of the dog and cat : Waltham Symposium number 7 /
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| Meeting name: | Waltham Symposium (7th : 1985 : Queen's College Cambridge) |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
| Description: | xi, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1054344 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Why dogs and cats?
- 2. The current consensus in dog and cat nutrition
- 3. The 1985 revision of the National Research Council nutrient requirements of dogs and its impact on the pet food industry
- 4. Optimal ranges of actual nutrients
- 5. Comparative aspects of nutrition and metabolism of dogs and cats
- 6. Allometric considerations in the nutrition of dogs
- 7. Bodyweight changes and energy intakes of cats during gestations and lactation
- 8. Nutrition, anaerobic and aerobic exercise and stress
- 9. Feeding behaviour of the cat
- 10. Protein in the nutrition of dogs and cats
- 11. Tryptophan metabolism in the cat
- 12. Is carbohydrate essential for pregnancy and lactation in dogs?
- 13. The effects of carbohydrate-free diets contatining different levels of protein on reproduction in the bitch
- 14. The use of different sources of raw and heated starch in the ration of weaned kittens
- 15. Pathogenesis of lactose-induced diarrhoea and its prevention by enzymatic splitting of lactose
- 16. Salt intake, animal health and hypertension: should sleeping dogs lie?
- 17. Calcium metabolism and skeletal development in dogs
- 18. The effects of the overfeeding of a balanced complete commercial diet to a group of growing
- 19. The role of zinc in canine and feline nutrition
- 20. Factors determining the essential fatty acid requirements of the cat
- 21. Lipoprotein cholesterol distribution in experimentally induced canine cholestatis
- 22. The role of fluid in the feline urological syndrome
- 23. The role of diet in feline struvite urolithiasis syndrome
- 24. Canine and feline nutrition: future perspectives
- Appendices
- Index
