Please, just take two more bites! How to monitor nutrition and  encourage self-feeding in rehabilitation animals

Raina Domek

doi:10.53607/wrb.v37.109

Please, just take two more bites! How to monitor nutrition and encourage self-feeding in rehabilitation animals

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Raina Domek Progressive Animal Welfare Society - Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Lynnwood, WA, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v37.109

Keywords:

Nutrition, self-feeding, anorexia, tube-feeding, gavage feeding, kilocalories, metabolism

Abstract

One of the most important parts of rehabilitation is nutritional support and monitoring of patients during healing and growing. This paper discusses how to assemble and present diets to promote self-feeding in animals of all types, with a strong focus on birds. This paper also discusses how to monitor the nutritional status of patients, how to respond to nutritional issues and when to intervene with anorectic animals.

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Published

2021-11-29

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Domek, R. (2021). Please, just take two more bites! How to monitor nutrition and encourage self-feeding in rehabilitation animals. Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin, 37(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v37.109

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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2019)

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