Stefanie Handl

Dr. med. vet., Dipl. ECVCN

Futterambulanz, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Handl studied at the University for Veterinary Medicine in Vienna and completed her doctorate in 2005 before working as a research associate at the university’s Institute for Animal Nutrition. After a period doing research in the Gastrointestinal Laboratory at Texas A&M University, she gained her ECVCN diploma in 2011. In 2013 she opened “the Futterambulanz Clinic“ in Vienna, a consulting practice offering nutrition and diet advice for pets.

Contribution

The water requirements and drinking habits of cats

Water is one of the most basic molecules in the universe, and essential for life as we know it; dehydration is not compatible with health. It may therefore seem odd to have an article on water intake, but even the simplest of actions can have hidden depths, as revealed by Stefanie Handl and Julia Fritz.