| True or false: a multipet household is a risk factor for nutritional problems? |
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| True or false: board certified nutritionist vets had difficulty making homemade diets properly to meet their pet's nutritional requirements |
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| How often should you check thiamin levels on cats on homemade diets per year? |
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| True or false: bacterial contamination is a big risk to the owner as well as the pet on a raw food diet? |
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| Are private label foods produced by the company that sells them? |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of private label/generic brand dog foods? |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a grocery store brand? |
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| What is the chemical commonly added to pet foods to increase palatability, which is made from organ or muscle sourced protein broken down enzymatically? |
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| True or false: there is a scientific basis for grain free foods? |
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| Which of the following is a characteristic of specialty brand foods? |
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| What are the four types of veterinary medical foods in Canada? |
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| True or false: dry foods have decreased palatability compared to other types due to an unnatural texture |
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| Dry foods use low moisture as a preserving mechanism, whereas semi-moist and soft-dry foods use ___ _____ |
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| What percentage of pet owners supplement recommended therapeutic food with other food or treats? |
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| What are the four fat soluble vitamins? |
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| True or false: liver is high in vitamin A? |
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| True or false: the avg dry food contains higher Ca and Phos levels than MDR? |
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| What is the maximum percentage of daily energy requirements that should be met by treats? |
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| True or false: milk bones are high in calcium? |
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| Will you get compliance if you ask your client to stop giving treats? |
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| Dry matter%= 100%- %_______ |
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| Dry weight %= Nutrient %/ __ _____% |
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| True or false: the Canadian government does not have any regulations for pet foot labels? |
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| True or false: AAFCO was first established in the 1930s and 40s to control the emerging pet food market? |
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| In what year did the CVMA stop enforcing any regulations on pet food labels? |
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| If the label says Chicken, what percentage of the total product must be made of chicken products? |
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| if the label says Beef dinner/receipe/formula/etc. what percentage of a canned product must be beef? A dry product? |
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| My new line of Nate's Own Pet Food has a product for cats with over 3% chicken! Yum! (It is however under 10%.) It comes in cans. What can I put on the label? |
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| My new line of Nate's Own Pet Food also has a special formulation for pugs with 72% beef, because pugs are apex predators and need real meat in their feed. What can the label say? |
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| My new line of Nate's Own Pet Food has a parakeet feed with chicken flavors recognizable by the pet. What may I put on the label? |
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| My new line of Nate's Own Pet Food has a chicken and kangaroo formula, dry form. What percent do these two ingredients make up? |
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| My new line of Nate's Own Pet Food has a reduced fat version of the special pug feed line, for chubby apex predators. What must be on the label? |
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| Nate's Own Pet Food has a line of Feline foods with 3250 kcal ME/kg on moisture less than 20%, and 950 kcal ME/kg on moisture over 65%. What can the label say? |
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| True or false: Lean or Low Fat foods must be lower in percentage crude fat for cats than for dogs? |
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| My new line of Nate's Own Pet Food has several products with Human-grade ingredients. What does this mean? |
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| True or false: Light, Lite or Low Calorie foods for canines have lower kcal ME/kg than Feline ones? |
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| Nate's Own has a pug food containing animals fed no antibiotics or GH, grains grown without most pesticides, inspected and certified by the USDA. What does the label DEFINITELY say |
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| If a dog food meets or exceeds requirements for all life stages, what is it? |
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| If a dog food meets or exceeds requirements for maintenance, what is it? |
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| Nate's Own Cat Food is ______ to meet or exceed requirements for maintenance, because I couldn't be assed to actually test it. |
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| Nate's Own Pug Food, however was carefully tested using the _____ ____ _____ method developed by AAFCO. |
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| Puppies have the highest energy requirements, together with _____ or ______ females. |
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| What is the minimum duration for which a food must be used as the sole source of nutrition during a maintenance feeding trial protocol? |
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| True or false: the ingredient list is in descending order by weight when the food is freshly finished? |
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| Which of the following is NOT required on the guaranteed analysis? |
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| True or false: higher fiber = higher energy? |
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| While creating a wet food for my Nate's Own cat line, I wanted to make sure it was mostly water, like over 78%. What must I put on the label? |
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| True or false: petfood labelled 'complete and balanced' must contain feeding directions? |
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| True or false: most products that actually adhere to the specific-purpose they are marketed for are sold through pet stores and vets? |
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| True or false: because animal tissue is usually 70% or more water, the dry matter weight of meat listed first on a label may be less than a dry ingredient lower down? |
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| ______ is an indication of whether the amount of food eaten will be enough to meet the animals needs, whereas _____ is how well the animal likes it. |
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| True or false: natural antioxidants are much more effective preservatives than artificial ones, but artificial ones are cheaper? |
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| My product is entirely composed of animals, plants and minerals, except some man made vitamins added in. Is it 'natural'? |
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| Ignoring water and salt, my product has 69% organic materials. Can I have that sweet sweet USDA organic seal? |
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| What two labels on food may also bare the USDA organic seal? |
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| My product is 'made with organic.' Does it get a USDA seal? what percentage is organic? |
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| What is the term for any substance considered a food or part of a food which provides health or medical benefit? |
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| True or false: cats with Lower Urinary Tract Disease should be fed canned food? |
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| What organization's seal will appear on a legit dental treat for dogs or cats? |
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