VET 242 — Animal Nutrition and Laboratory Animals
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the ba-sic concepts of animal nutrition of various animal species and laboratory animal maintenance, husbandry, and handling. T op-ics may include but are not limited to canine dietetics, feline dietetics, nutritional management of small animal disease, feeding the neonate, nutritional management of the convales -cent animal, fundamentals of nutrition, principles of disease prevention, housing and equipment, job opportunities, biology of common lab animals, basic principles of research and neces-sity for use of lab animals, techniques, and zoonosis; required clinical skills will be completed in approved clinical sites. Upon course completion, the student should be able to formulate a nutritional plan for the healthy and sick animal. The student should be able to handle, care for, and collect diagnostic sam -ples and have basic knowledge of the diseases of the common-ly used laboratory animals.
Prerequisites: VET 110, VET 112, VET 114