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2. Why Dogs Eat Grass - AOL

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   Technically, eating non-food is known as Pica, a behavior condition associated with compulsive eating of non-food items to compensate for nutrient, vitamin, or mineral deficiencies. Most dogs are ...

3. Osteophagy - Wikipedia

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   Osteophagy in humans would be considered a form of pica. Unlike calcium and phosphorus in most animals, pica is associated with iron deficiencies in humans. [21] Humans are unlikely to suffer from calcium and phosphorus deficiencies because the minerals are widely abundant in the foods they consume. [22]

4. Dog skin disorders - Wikipedia

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   In dogs, a deficiency in copper results in incomplete keratinization leading to dry skin and hypopigmentation. [28] The complicated combination of trace minerals in the diet are a key component of skin health and a part of a complete and balanced diet.

5. Mineral deficiency - Wikipedia

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   Mineral deficiency is a lack of the dietary minerals, the micronutrients that are needed for an organism's proper health. [1] The cause may be a poor diet , impaired uptake of the minerals that are consumed, or a dysfunction in the organism's use of the mineral after it is absorbed.

6. Pica (disorder) - Wikipedia

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   According to the DSM-5, mineral deficiencies are occasionally associated with pica, but biological abnormalities are rarely found. [3] People practicing forms of pica, such as geophagy , pagophagy , and amylophagy, are more likely to be anemic or to have low hemoglobin concentration in their blood, lower levels of red blood cells ( hematocrit ...

7. Dog food - Wikipedia

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   Taurine deficiency has been found in dogs [35] and cats [36] fed extruded commercial diets. ... 2014 [102] with Role of Vitamins & Minerals ...

8. Animal nutrition - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin deficiencies may result in disease conditions. Excess of some vitamins is also dangerous to health (notably vitamin A), and animal nutrition researchers have managed to establish safe levels for some common companion animals. [5] Deficiency or excess of minerals can also have serious health consequences.

9. Vitamin B12 - Wikipedia

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   Vitamin B 12 deficiency is a widespread condition that is ... rapidly cure the anemia of blood loss in dogs, ... vitamins and minerals intravenously for various ...