NRC 2006 — Your Dog's Nutritional Needs (public-education booklet)

The NRC booklet *Your Dog's Nutritional Needs — A Science-Based Guide For Pet Owners* is a consumer-level pamphlet written by Dale Feuer based on the 2006 report Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats. It is explicitly 2006 release of Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats and describes dogs as descended from omnivores that they can thrive on a vegetarian diet provided it is properly supplemented.

On macronutrient minimums, the booklet states that get at least 10% of their total calories from protein and that approximately 5.5% of the diet should come from fats and 10% from protein. It also notes that an adult dog’s diet 50% carbohydrates by weight, including 2.5–4.5% from fiber. On the question of meat it explains that a vegetarian diet as long as it contains sufficient protein can sustain dogs, and that they can thrive on a vegetarian diet. On protein quality it notes that High-quality proteins have a good balance of all of the essential amino acids. For label interpretation it observes that Pet food labels must list the percentage of protein, fat, fiber, and water in the food.

The booklet also reproduces DAILY RECOMMENDED ALLOWANCES tables for an adult 33-lb dog and, for crude protein/total fat, separate rows for puppies, adult dogs, and pregnant/nursing dogs (33 lb with 6 puppies). These are selected single-point allowances only. (The DRA table header states the body weight "Weighing 33 lb" but does not state a kcal basis; the booklet's energy table brackets dogs by 10/30/50/70/90 lb, so no single adult-maintenance kcal figure is asserted here.)

HONEST SCOPE NOTE: This topic was built from the NRC *public-education booklet*, not the full 2006 NRC monograph Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats. The complete NRC 2006 requirement matrix — the minimum/maximum nutrient concentrations tabulated by life stage (growth, gestation, lactation, adult maintenance) and expressed per 1000 kcal and per kg of diet — was NOT obtained. The numeric tables below list the booklet's single-point Daily Recommended Allowances for the reference adult animal only (33-lb dog; the DRA table prints body weight but not a kcal basis); crude-protein/total-fat rows additionally give puppy and pregnant/nursing values where the booklet prints them. These are selected single-point allowances, not a life-stage min/max matrix. Sub-life-stage min/max values, AAFCO/FEDIAF-style nutrient profiles, and the safety (maximum) tolerances across all nutrients therefore remain pending and must not be inferred from this booklet.

Daily Recommended Allowances (NRC 2006 booklet)

Single-point daily allowances for an adult 33-lb dog (puppy/pregnant-nursing values given where listed). Figures are verbatim from the booklet's DRA tables.

Protein and Fats

Vitamins

Minerals

Source: pdf-raw/nrc-2006/dog_nutrition_final_fix.txt (extracted from NRC PDF, landed 2026-08-11).

Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file — paraphrase mode)

• get at least 10% of their total calories from protein.
• approximately 5.5% of the diet should come from fats and 10% from protein.
• 50% carbohydrates by weight, including 2.5–4.5% from fiber.
• a vegetarian diet as long as it contains sufficient protein
• they can thrive on a vegetarian diet.
• High-quality proteins have a good balance of all of the essential amino acids.
• Crude Protein
• 56 g
• 25 g
• 69 g /158 g
• Total Fat
• 21 g
• 14 g
• 29 g/67 g
• Vitamin A
• 379 µg
• Vitamin D
• 3.4 µg
• Vitamin E
• 8 mg
• Vitamin K
• 0.41 mg
• Vitamin B1
• 0.56 mg
• Riboflavin
• 1.3 mg
• Vitamin B6
• 0.4 mg
• Niacin
• Pantothenic
• 4 mg
• Vitamin B12
• 9 µg
• Folic Acid
• 68 µg
• Choline
• 425 mg
• Calcium
• 1g
• Phosphorus
• 0.75 g
• Magnesium
• 150 mg
• Sodium
• 200 mg
• Potassium
• 1g
• Chlorine
• 300 mg
• Iron
• 7.5 mg
• Copper
• 1.5 mg
• Zinc
• 15 mg
• Manganese
• 1.2 mg
• Selenium
• 90 µg
• Iodine
• 220 µg