Recently referred to us was a 4-year-old male entire Giant Schnauzer with symmetrical lupoid onychodystrophy. Symmetrical lupoid onychodystrophy is an unusua...

The internet is awash with recommendations, forthright opinions, and recipes for cats with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This is concerning – it's one thing ...

As well as being fascinating and beautiful, mushrooms have a range of intriguing nutritional properties that makes them a very valuable dietary addition. 1) ...

In August 2019, Professor Ellen Kienzle's research group published a paper entitled "Remarkable frequency of a history of liver disease in dogs fed homemade ...

My answer to this question is an enthusiastic yes! But before we get to the fun part, there's a few caveats to get out of the way first: Don't feed your dog ...

A recent study by Guo et al. (2019) published in Nature has demonstrated that dietary restriction of the amino acid methionine can reduce tumour growth and i...

Given the recent focus on taurine and the association between feeding a grain-free diet and the development of dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs, I thought it w...

Firstly, yes the name is unfortunately a mouthful, and doesn’t really roll-off-the-tongue very nicely! Probably, the (somewhat) easier term to remember is ca...

This month I wanted to talk about nutritional management of two diseases that we see very commonly. A 9-year-old female spayed Dachshund was referred to us ...

Here are two tasty treat recipes I've formulated for adult dogs or puppies with: Portosystemic shunts or advanced hepatic disease. These dogs typically requi...

An interesting paper was published recently in the journal Immunity, Inflammation and Disease by Satyaraj et al. from Nestle Purina Research. The title of th...

Prey model (or ratio) raw diets are undoubtedly popular. Unfortunately, they are often deficient in many essential nutrients.

In this series of posts I thought we could take a closer look at some interesting ingredients that can be used in home-prepared diets for dogs and cats (or p...

In April 2019, Allan et al. published a paper in the Journal of Small Animal Practice titled "Prospective randomised blinded clinical trial assessing effect...

The bright and friendly Mini Schnauzer is, without a doubt, our number one client. Unfortunately, these lovely dogs are prone to a number of diseases, for wh...

Last week was quite exciting – my pêches de vigne finally arrived from the South Island. These beautiful and rare peaches are grown in New Zealand as "Black ...

To briefly recap from the last post, cystine urolithiasis refers to the formation of urinary tract stones (uroliths) that are composed of cysteine. Cysteine ...

Here's an unusual and interesting case that was recently referred to us for a nutrition consult. A 9-month-old female spayed domestic medium-haired cat prese...

Here's a quick and easy recipe for some tasty cheddar cheese biscuits that you can easily make at home. I've adapted the recipe from a BBC Good Food recipe, ...

Ketogenic (or 'keto') diets are all over the news these days. Yet despite all the hype and large number of recently published, glossy cookbooks, the ketogen...