{"id":6610,"date":"2019-11-13T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:23:23","slug":"do-alternative-diets-work-for-pets-like-they-do-for-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/do-alternative-diets-work-for-pets-like-they-do-for-people.php","title":{"rendered":"Do alternative diets work for pets like they do for people?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More people are turning to alternative diets to stay healthy. So can the same work for our pets? Veterinarians say it\u2019s not that simple and can sometimes even be dangerous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNutrition is truly not all in a can or all in a bag and not all cans and bags are created equally,\u201d said Dr. Nolie Parnell, Clinical Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine and Chief of Staff at the Small Animal Hospital at Purdue University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGrain-free right now is probably the hottest dietary trend in the pet food industry,\u201d she said but added that pets rarely actually have allergies to grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people are turning to alternative diets to stay healthy. So can the same work for our pets? Veterinarians say it\u2019s not that simple and can sometimes even be dangerous. \u201cNutrition is truly not all in a can or all in a bag and not all cans and bags are created equally,\u201d said Dr. Nolie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,41,31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare-science","category-faculty-staff","category-hospitals","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33955,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/33955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}