Nutrition If Dogs And Cata

Question 0

What is energy required for?

Answer 0

To preform all metabolic work in the body

Question 1

What are the areas if focus in nutrition?

Answer 1

Proper nutrition for maintenance or different life stages, therapeutic diets, and homemade dishes

Question 2

What is the metabolic work in the body?

Answer 2

Maintenance, dehydration, synthesis, elimination

Question 3

What increases the energy requirements?

Answer 3

Growth reproduction or work

Question 4

What are kilocalories?

Answer 4

Units of energy

Question 5

What are nutrients?

Answer 5

Components in a diet that. Have specific functions within a body

Question 6

What do nutrients contribute to?

Answer 6

Growth, tissue maintenance, and health

Question 7

What are the energy producing nutrients?

Answer 7

Carbohydrates, protiens, fats

Question 8

What are non energy producing nutrients?

Answer 8

Water vitamins and minerals

Question 9

What are carbs?

Answer 9

Starches and sugars, essential and efficiently used source of energy

Question 10

Can cats maintain a regular blood glucose level when fed a carb free diet?

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

What are cereal grains?

Answer 11

Wheat corn and barely

Question 12

Why should you cool cereal grains?

Answer 12

Because cooking ruptures the cellulose covering to expose starch granule

Question 13

What do enzymes do to the starch granules?

Answer 13

Turn them to simple sugars

Question 14

Where are limited amounts of carbs stored?

Answer 14

Glycogen in liver

Question 15

What are excess carbs converted to?

Answer 15

Fat

Question 16

What are non digestible carbs?

Answer 16

Fiber

Question 17

What is necessary for normal functioning if the GI tract?

Answer 17

Fiber

Question 18

What does insoluble fiber do?

Answer 18

Increases bull of the diet, contributes to satiety, and maintains normal intestinal transit time and motility

Question 19

What do soluble fibers do?

Answer 19

Delay gastric emptying and helps create some essential fatty acids

Question 20

What are some common sources of fiber?

Answer 20

Rice, beans, beef pulp, and soybean or peanut hulls

Question 21

What are protiens?

Answer 21

Amino acids, nitrogen, and small amounts of sulfur

Question 22

What are animal sourced if protien?

Answer 22

Meat, eggs, milk, liver

Question 23

What are plant sources of protiens?

Answer 23

Soybeans, peanuts, corn, wheat

Question 24

Why are animal sources better?

Answer 24

Have higher biological value (usefulness to the body)

Question 25

How many amino acids are found in protien?

Answer 25

22

Question 26

How many amino acids can be made by dogs and cats?

Answer 26

12

Question 27

What are essential amino acids?

Answer 27

10 amino acids that dogs and cats cannot make

Question 28

Can cats synthesize taurine?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

What amino acid can be found as a free amino acid in tissues?

Answer 29

Taurine

Question 30

What is feline central retinal degeneration?

Answer 30

Photoreceptors become disrupted and dysfunctional. Causes irreversible blindness

Question 31

What is dialated cardiomyopathy?

Answer 31

Degenerative. Decreased myocardial contractility. Cardiac failure. Can be reversible if caught early

Question 32

What are protiens required for?

Answer 32

Amino acid supply for protien synthesis, supply nitrogen for synthesis of non essential amino acids, enzymes and hormones, transportation molecules in the blood stream, immune system, and musculoskeletal system

Question 33

Why are cat livers special?

Answer 33

Cannot change and adapt to differing levels of protien and cannot conserve nitrogen, must metabolize protien at higher rates than other species

Question 34

What is Arginine needed for?

Answer 34

For normal protien synthesis in liver. Converts ammonia to urea for excretion

Question 35

What do deficiencies in Arginine cause?

Answer 35

Hyper ammonemia within several hours which will cause embed is, muscular spasms, ataxia, hyperesthesua, clam and death

Question 36

What is hyperesthesia?

Answer 36

Extremely sensitive to touch

Question 37

What is fat broken down into?

Answer 37

Fatty acids and glycerol

Question 38

What are three essential fatty acids?

Answer 38

Linoleic, lindenic, arachidonic

Question 39

Which essential fatty acid can cats not synthesize very well?

Answer 39

Arachidonic

Question 40

What can cause bleeding disorders, reproductive problems, poor coat, impaired wound healing, skin liesions, and growth tissues?

Answer 40

Deficiencies in arachnid ionic fatty acids

Question 41

What is the minimum percent of fat in commercial cat foods?

Answer 41

9%

Question 42

What is the minimum percent of Linoleic and arachadonic acid in commercial at foods?

Answer 42

0.5 and 0.02

Question 43

What does fat do?

Answer 43

Aids in digestion of protien, adds palatability

Question 44

What can excess fat cause?

Answer 44

Steatorrhea and diarrhea, weight gain and obeisity

Question 45

What can a low fat diet lead to?

Answer 45

Dry brittle hair coat, skin and hair loss

Question 46

What is the most important nutrient?

Answer 46

Water

Question 47

Hat are the fat soluble vitamins?

Answer 47

ADEK

Question 48

Why do animals need a constant source of water?

Answer 48

To replace losses that occur through urine, feces, and respiration a

Question 49

What vitamins are water soluble?

Answer 49

B complex and C

Question 50

What are vitamins needed for?

Answer 50

Homeostasis, cell integrity, metabolic reactions

Question 51

Do dogs and cats make their own vitamins?

Answer 51

Yes

Question 52

What are minerals?

Answer 52

Electrolytes, cations, anions

Question 53

What are four macro minerals?

Answer 53

Ca, p, mg, s

Question 54

What are three electrolytes?

Answer 54

NA, k, cl

Question 55

What are six micro minerals?

Answer 55

Zn, mn, Se, cu, Fe something else

Question 56

What are trace minerals used for?

Answer 56

Production if enzymes, bone, and structural integrity, muscle contraction, nerve impulse conduction

Question 57

What is the first requirement of a diet?

Answer 57

Energy

Question 58

What is metabolizable energy?

Answer 58

Caloric value if pet foods and dog or cat caloric requirements

Question 59

What is gross energy?

Answer 59

Foods total energy

Question 60

What is digestible energy?

Answer 60

Energy animal is capable of digesting and absorbing from a food

Question 61

What is fecal energy?

Answer 61

In absorbed. Energy of the food

Question 62

What is the formula to determine digestible energy?

Answer 62

Gross energy - fecal energy = digestible energy

Question 63

What is the formula for metabolizable energy?

Answer 63

Gross energy-fecal energy-use

Question 64

What is the average ME value of protien?

Answer 64

3.5 kcal me/g

Question 65

What is the average me value of carbs?

Answer 65

3.5 kcal me/g

Question 66

What is the average me value of fats?

Answer 66

8.5 kcal me/g

Question 67

As a foods energy density increases what happens?

Answer 67

The total volume of food needing to be consumed decreases

Question 68

What is caloric distribution?

Answer 68

Proportions of protien, carbs, and fats that make up total me.

Question 69

What is the resting metabolic rate?

Answer 69

Amount of energy required to preform body maintenance and metabolism a day

Question 70

What is the formula for the resting metabolic rate?

Answer 70

30cal x kg body weight + 70 calories

Question 71

What is the formula for daily energy requirements?

Answer 71

K x kg body weight ^0.67

Question 72

What is the k value for an inactive dog?

Answer 72

99

Question 73

What is the k value for. A normally active dog?

Answer 73

132

Question 74

What is the k value for a very active dog?

Answer 74

160

Question 75

What is the daily requirements for a inactive cat?

Answer 75

60

Question 76

What is the k value for a moderately active cat?

Answer 76

70

Question 77

What is the k value for a highly active cat?

Answer 77

80