Everyone is an expert. They eat three times a day. But the power and adaptability of our metabolic machinery can deceive us into a false security when feeding our pets. A poor pet diet can have subtle and slowly evolving ill effects. Dr. Patton explores a few of the ignored fundamentals right before our eyes.
This seminar, presented by Vital Essentials and Blue Collar Working Dog, will be held at the store location. Topics covered by Dr. Patton:
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Essential ingredients
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Basic requirements
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Wet food vs dry
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Drawbacks and benefits of raw, natural diets
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Role of behavior - pet and owner
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Insder perspective of the pet food industry
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Obesity epidemic
About Dr. Richard S. Patton
Dogs Naturally Magazine wrote, In over 40 years as an
animal nutritionist, Dr. Patton has worked in 25 countries
and formulated diets for nearly every kind of animal.
Formal study was at Penn State, Purdue and Virginia Tech.
He was marketing manager for a company that recycled
human food waste to animal feeds and Director of Research
for Prescription Diet pet foods. As a consultant based in
New Mexico for the past 30 years, Patton has worked for
agriculture enterprises, zoos, foreign governments, Fortune
500 companies and local and regional feed mills and pet
food companies. An adjunct professor at Penn State for 15
years, he has 25 scienti c publications, two patents, one
book (pet nutrition) and numerous popular press articles.
