And recently we brought in our California Kingsnake and they truly outdid themselves. The staff here are the best around! We first came about four years ago with our cornsnake, and they were amazing then. Dr Hale, Katherine, Gabby and all your staff were so friendly and helpful! You’ll be recommended to all my pet loving friends. I am very happy that you were recommended to me. As always your care for our dog was above expectations. I always said my mom was the most peacable person I ever met. I was pleasantly surprised with the new facilities. Very knowledgeable staff very attentive, I would recommend this vet to anybody - Michelle P
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To see the full charts, click the links below.I switched to Greenland Veterinary Hospital last year and it was the best decision I have made for my fur babies! My mother also switched from the same vet I left and she loves bringing her Afgan hound to Greenland! Thank you for being so caring and understanding to all of our needs and concerns! - Robin S. My motto is, “Score a 4 and live some more!” You can literally add years to your pet’s life by keeping him at an ideal weight.
I hope you will calculate your pet’s ideal weight and seek veterinary help if it exceeds ideal. I hope this post was interesting as well as informative. They don’t make an autopilot for weight loss. Adjustment to caloric intake is the norm, not the exception. That is why regular monitoring is required for any weight loss program. Also, metabolic changes occur during dieting or calorie restrictions that seek to preserve fat, so pets often encounter plateaus of no weight loss or short periods of weight regain. In the bigger picture, these calculations are estimates. Having a defined target weight gives owners a goal and helps increase their compliance to the weight loss recommendations. Equipped with an ideal weight plan, your veterinarian can calculate the normal caloric requirements and then decrease by a percentage the amount that is appropriate and safe for the individual pet. In order to lose weight, a pet must be fed fewer calories than the amount that would support their ideal weight. This is particularly true for pets on weight loss programs. Using the Ideal Body Weight Chart for Your Petĭetermination of a pet’s ideal weight allows for more accurate feeding guidelines. Typically the percent of body fat is underestimated, which has a profound effect on designing a weight loss program for these pets. Such pets exceed the standard BCS scoring so the correlation of percentage of body fat to BCS score is difficult to define. This calculation is not accurate for grossly obese pets. More correctly, the ideal weight is between 70-80 lbs because the ideal body fat ranges from 15-24%, or 76-85% lean body mass. From the information above, ideal animals should have about 20% body fat, or 80% lean weight. This dog is 40% overweight so its lean body weight would be 60% of its present weight.Ħ0 lbs represents a dog with no fat, which is not healthy. With the above information we can estimate the ideal weight of an overweight pet.Ī 100 lb dog with a BCS of 5 or 9 (depending on the scale used). (Click image to see larger view) Calculating Ideal Weight for Cats and Dogs They found the following correlations of BCS scores and percent body fat:
Witzel and her group compared BCS scores (both the 5-point chart and 9-point scales for dogs and cats) to the gold standard for the determination of percentage of body fat, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry or DEXA. Angela Witzel at the University of Tennessee has created a means to calculate ideal weight from BCS information.
Despite the medical field embracement of the Body Mass Index (BMI), weight targets are still the standard in most popular human weight loss programs. Owners of animals on weight loss programs tend to be more compliant if they have a target weight for their pet rather than a target BCS. Although Body Condition Scoring (BCS) is becoming a standard veterinary tool for judging the physical status of pets, many pet owners and veterinarians are more comfortable with weight as a measure of health.