The Overweight Pet: Engaging Pet Owners & Making a Plan

‘How do I even bring up weight loss to families?’ ‘We’ve dropped the amount twice and the dog still isn’t losing weight, what now!?’ Participants will walk away with strategies to answer weight loss questions like these and to engage families in creative conversations to make weight management more fun and effective. Troubleshooting through case examples in this session will provide ready-to-use and practical tools to expand the vet team’s weight loss toolkit.

By the end of this lecture, participants will be able to:

• Perform a full nutritional assessment that incorporates the needs of the pet and family.
• Identify resources and tools for providing evidence-based obesity information to clients.
• Engage pet owners more efficiently in conversations about obesity.