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- Title
Homemade versus extruded and wet commercial diets for dogs: Cost comparison.
- Authors
Vendramini, Thiago Henrique Annibale; Pedrinelli, Vivian; Macedo, Henrique Tobaro; Zafalon, Rafael Vessecchi Amorim; Risolia, Larissa Wünsche; Rentas, Mariana Fragoso; Macegoza, Matheus Vinicius; Gameiro, Augusto Hauber; Brunetto, Marcio Antonio
- Abstract
The present study aimed to verify and compare the costs of homemade diets with extruded and wet commercial diets for dogs in maintenance and consuming therapeutic diets (obesity, congestive heart failure, diabetes, hepatic encephalopathy, chronic kidney disease, and food hypersensitivity), which is important information that impacts in the choice of food by the owners. The maintenance energy requirements (MER) were estimated for adult dogs of different sizes (3 kg, 15 kg, 30 kg, and 50 kg) and the daily amounts of food intake were estimated for each type of food. The costs were calculated per day, per 1000 kcal of metabolizable energy of product and per kg of metabolic weight of the animal. Fourteen complete and balanced homemade diets were formulated, and in each proposed group, two diets with different protein sources were used. Under the conditions of the present study, it was possible to conclude that homemade diets were more expensive than dry maintenance diets and dry therapeutic diets, while commercial wet diets were more expensive in all of the scenarios.
- Subjects
CONGESTIVE heart failure; INGESTION; FOOD allergy; ANIMAL nutrition; CHRONIC kidney failure; METABOLIZABLE energy values
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0236672