Canine Nutrition courses?

You should have access to numerous sources that can help you with canine nutrition. The NRC publication of 2006 is essentially a collection/compilation of the latest research on small animal nutrition - a treasure trove of primary sources references. I'm a primary source gal. Don't knock your large animal information. I started with courses on sheep nutrition and metabolic disorders and started gaining confidence in doing stuff for my dogs, when I started seeing and researching the parallels, and then the differences, between my small ruminants and my carnivores. The studies you will probably pursue down the road, if you haven't begun them already, that are most relevant to nutrition (without literally studying nutrition), are organic chemistry, microbiology, immunology, and endocrinology. Pay special attention to these topics and it will be easy for you to start reading on your own. Nutrition has moved a lot in the last few years so if I were in your position this is the direction I'd go. Good luck and have fun!

Workingdoglover

  My whole college experience has pretty much been useless as far as real education goes.  I guess life lesson have been learned, but really just not much in the education department.  A little sad, huh?

 

 

 

 

 

I found this to be true in my degree as well. I studied civil and environmental engineering. When I graduated and went to work, I found that I knew nothing about how to do the actual job. It was a real eye opener. However, I won't say that all those years spent doing chemistry (sooooo many levels and years of all types of chemistry!), thermodynamics, dynamics, math and computer science were a total waste. I have a good understanding of the fundementals of how things work in life. And that is really good to have imo. I don't struggle with math or science and because of that I feel like I'm capable of understanding just about anything with a little research. It helps with my dogs, my health, the health of family and friends and if someone needs to pave their driveway, or build a new septic field I can help with those things too! So basically what I'm saying is to not dismiss what you have learned about cows or horses because that knowlede will help you expand on the things you really want to know down the line.

I'll definitely have to look into that!  It just seemed like all the books I'd been reading were very biased one way or the other, you know? 

 I guess I'm not really saying the information I have learned (and am still learning) isn't useful in some way, it just wasn't what I was really wanting to learn.  I knew I'd be learning about all the large animal stuff, but I also thought I'd learn an equal amount about companion animals, which just hasn't been the case.  It's just frustrating when you're paying so much to go to a college and then not get what you really wanted to learn out of it.  That's why I was looking into taking some specific classes in nutrition and behavior.  :)

Workingdoglover

My whole college experience has pretty much been useless as far as real education goes.  I guess life lesson have been learned, but really just not much in the education department.  A little sad, huh?

 

After I got my MBA...ten years ago, I didn't get any smarter.  The one thing I got from my MBA was that I finally learned to accept that there will be many different perspectives and view points in life and I will never say never...I will say it depends on the circumstances instead....lol.