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Energy requirement and food intake behaviour in young adult intact male cats with and without predisposition to overweight.
TheScientificWorldJournal - 1 Jan 2012
Wichert Brigitta, Trossen Julia, Uebelhart Daniel, Wanner Marcel, Hartnack Sonja
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is a common problem in cats. In the experimental cat family of the institute of animal nutrition besides a "normal" lean phenotype, cats with predisposition to an overweight phenotype are present. To investigate energy requirements and food intake behaviour of intact male cats of different phenotypes, six "normal" lean cats (GL) and six cats disposed to overweight (GO) were used. At the beginning of the...
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