Dog obesity: Veterinary practices' and owners' opinions on cause and management

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 310-315

  Bland, I M ^a   Guthrie Jones, A ^a   Taylor, R D ^a   Hill, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dog obesity; Owner attitudes; Veterinarians

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW CALORY DIET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIET, REDUCING; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OWNERSHIP; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VETERINARIANS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77949489121     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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