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University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories

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Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge.
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Eleanor Raffan’s review article about companion animal obesity in the Veterinary Record can be downloaded as a pdf here.

The first GOdogs paper: validating the questionnaire we developed to test how dogs attitude to food varies, and initial findings. Full article free to read in PeerJ here.

Alex German’s review in the Journal of Nutrition about Canine Obesity.

You can download a body condition score chart here: Purina BCS Chart.

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