This interactive session works through the calculations behind a nutrition plan. It starts with the difference between life stage and lifestyle and how each affects nutritional needs, then explains resting energy requirement (RER), daily energy requirement (DER), metabolisable energy (ME) and how they link together to give a volume to feed.
It finishes with a step by step worked example for an obese cat, from RER and DER through converting ME to kcal per gram, grams per day and number of pouches, followed by a renal disease case for you to plan using a diet recommendation tool.
Presented by Kayleigh Williams as part of the ACVN webinar series.
Includes the full recording (44 minutes), the presentation slides as a PDF, and a quiz. Pass the quiz to receive a certificate worth 1 AVNAT point.

