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Home-prepared cooked diets are becoming increasingly popular with owners and, as a consequence, veterinary professionals need to provide guidance about the advantages and disadvantages of such foods.

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Figure 5.1 Example of a home-prepared cooked pet food containing cooked brown rice, cooked chicken and liver and cooked carrot. (Image used under licence from Shutterstock.com: © aukarawatcyber)
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Figure 5.2 (a) Radiograph showing ‘ghost-like’ bones of a dog with nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism. The density of bone is similar to that of the soft tissue density of the pads. There are radial and ulnar fractures and a healed mid-diaphyseal humeral fracture. (b) Lateral radiograph of the hindquarters of a kitten with nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism. Notes the generalized decrease in bone density with associated distortion of the vertebral column, and the folding fracture in the mid-diaphysis of the cranial femur. (a, Reproduced from the ; b, Reproduced from the )

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