1. A high protein diet helps maintain muscle mass more effectively than a traditional diet, maintain a high palatability and give a feeling of satiety.

2. For an equal metabolisable energy level, proteins provide 30% less net energy than carbohydrates.

3. L-carnitine promotes the transport of fat into the mitochondria.

Increasing the urine volume reduces simultaneously the saturation of urine with struvite and calcium oxalate. This promotes a urinary environment unfavourable to development of both struvite and calcium oxalate uroliths.