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Being Sure of the Correct Nutrients

Did you know that TOO MUCH nutrients can harm your pet?  Sometimes, you can have too much of a good thing.  When you look at the nutrient needs of a young growing pet, versus that of an adult pet, versus that of a senior pet, there is a great degree of varying needs. 

For example, puppies and kittens require a lot more protein, calcium, phosphorus, and fat in their diet to support proper growth.  If you feed a senior pet, or even a grown adult pet these same nutrients, your pet could suffer the consequences with such things as kidney disease, bladder stones, obesity and bone loss.

Therefore, we want to make sure that the food we feed our adult pet is formulated specifically for an adult, not a puppy/kitten.  We will learn later that foods made for "all life stages" is also inappropriate for adult and senior pets because it contains the nutrients in proportions that satisfy a growing puppy/kitten.
         

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