Abstract:With interest in grain-free diets (GFD) and plant-based diets, understanding the use of pulse ingredients is warranted. Recently our laboratory found that high pulse inclusive diets did not cause echocardiographic changes in healthy adult dogs after 20 weeks of feeding. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess the safety of pulse ingredient inclusion up to 45% in canine diets using gross physiological, hematological and biochemical measurements. Twenty-eight healthy adult Siberian huskies were fed one o… Show more
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