Puppy Nutrition: Key Nutrients That Support Development

Growth is a challenging life stage. Understanding how key nutrients can support healthy growth and lifelong health helps to ensure puppies get off to a good start in life. It is essential to provide puppies with specific nutrients for healthy immunity, brain development and gastrointestinal health during development. Listen to Dr. Catherine Lenox, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition) explain everything you need to know.

Catherine Lenox, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition), is a board-certified veterinary nutritionist, who works as the Senior Specialist of Technical Publications and Education at the Purina Institute in St. Louis. Prior to working at Purina, Dr. Lenox led a nutrition service at a large specialty veterinary hospital in Houston. She is passionate about helping others to understand nutrition in a practical way and has taught nutrition education courses at veterinary schools in the U.S. and Canada. Dr. Lenox also is a frequent speaker at veterinary conferences in the U.S. and abroad. She received her veterinary degree from Duke University and then completed a small-animal medicine and surgery internship at Colorado State University and a residency in small-animal veterinary nutrition at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.