Diet for a Dog with Cancer | Dr. Sue Ettinger Deep Dive

Is there a perfect diet for a dog with cancer? Does diet even matter when it comes to cancer? Dr. Sue Ettinger, veterinary oncologist and co-author of The Dog Cancer Survival Guide, weighs in with her “judge-free” advice about diets for dogs with cancer. Hear what she thinks of the dog cancer diet, and her recommendations for those of us who maybe CAN’T do all the things we wish we could for our dogs. A must-listen Deep Dive episode with Dr. Sue Cancer Vet.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Show:  

To get a free copy of The Dog Cancer Diet visit Maui Media’s online store: https://store.dogcancerblog.com/products/the-dog-cancer-diet 

If you want more than just the excerpt from the chapter on diet, get the entire book, packed with amazing information: the book The Dog Cancer Survival Guide: Full Spectrum Treatments to Optimize Your Dog’s Life Quality and Longevity. 

Here’s a great article Dr. Sue Ettinger wrote on DogCancerBlog.com about diets and dogs with cancer. https://www.dogcancerblog.com/articles/full-spectrum-cancer-care/dog-cancer-diet/diet-and-dogs-with-cancer/

And here are many more articles about diet on DogCancerBlog.com: https://www.dogcancerblog.com/collection/articles/full-spectrum-cancer-care/dog-cancer-diet/

To find a boarded veterinary nutritionist check the American College of Veterinary Nutrition website at https://acvn.org/

BalanceIt.com is a great resource for developing balanced home recipes for your dog. Choose your ingredients and the nutritional program will tell you whether it’s possible to give your dog a balanced diet using your choices, or whether you need to make adjustments. Super handy!

Here’s the multivitamin discussed on the program: https://EverPup.com

About Today’s Guest, Dr. Sue Cancer Vet: 

Dr. Sue Ettinger is a practicing veterinary cancer specialist, international speaker, book author, and YouTube vlogger (video blogger).  A dynamic and engaging speaker, she was voted the 2019 Western Veterinary Conference Small Animal Continuing Educator of the Year. She is one of approximately 450 board-certified specialists in medical oncology in North America and currently practices at Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center in Norwalk, Connecticut. She received her veterinary training at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. She completed her residency in medical oncology at the Animal Medical Center in NYC in 2003. 

Also known as Dr Sue Cancer Vet®, she is most passionate about raising cancer awareness and has developed “See Something, Do Something, Why Wait? Aspirate.®” to promote early cancer detection and diagnosis.  She is a frequent contributor to Today’s Veterinary Practice, Today’s Veterinary Business, Clinician’s Brief, Veterinary Team Brief, & DVM360.  

Dr Sue loves to use social media to help clients and veterinary professionals deal with cancer in pets, including Instagram, her YouTube channel, and her popular Facebook page with over 38,000 fans. 

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