The “BARF” trend – advantages, drawbacks and risks
The trend of feeding raw foods to dogs and cats was apparently started in the early 1990’s by an Australian veterinarian who wrote a book promoting the virtues of feeding raw food to dogs ,
Stefanie Handl
Dr. vet. med., Dip. ECVCN
Dr. Handl graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in 2002 and received her doctorate degree in 2005; she then went on to work as a research assistant in the Institute of Animal Nutrition at the same establishment. Dr. Handl spent some time with the team at Texas A&M University’s gastrointestinal research laboratory and completed her ECVCN Residency in 2011. She opened a practice in Vienna dedicated to small animal nutrition in 2013, and also serves as editor-in-chief for the journal Veterinary Medicine Austria.
Contributions from Stefanie Handl
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The water requirements and drinking habits of cats
Water is one of the most basic molecules in the universe...