About Max a Mia
Max a Mia is a free guide for people who live with dogs and cats. Max is the dog, Mia is the cat, and in Slovak "a" means "and".
We don't sell anything, there are no ads and nobody pays to be mentioned.
How we write it
Everything here is based on published veterinary sources such as WSAVA, ESCCAP, the Merck Veterinary Manual and International Cat Care, linked at the bottom of each page.
We explain and link; we don't diagnose and we never give medicine doses. Your vet knows your pet and should always have the final word.
Found a mistake? Write to us and we'll check and correct it.
Privacy
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If you email us, we use your message only to reply.
Who runs it
NLH.sk
Main sources
- Merck Veterinary Manual – Table: Daily Maintenance Energy Requirements for Dogs and Cats
- Merck Veterinary Manual – Nutritional Requirements of Small Animals (Sanderson, rev. 2023/2024)
- Pet Nutrition Alliance – Calculating Calories Based on Pet Needs (MER/RER)
- Hill's – Estimated Energy Requirements Canine/Feline
- Melbourne Polytechnic – Veterinary Nursing Mathematics: Dietary requirements (Gajanayake et al. 2011 tables)
- 2021 AAHA Nutrition and Weight Management Guidelines – Weight reduction in the obese pet
- Lenox C (DACVN). A systematic approach to designing weight loss plans for cats and dogs. Veterinary Practice News, 2019
- Villaverde C. Dietary Management of Obesity. WSAVA Congress 2009 (VIN)
- Nuttall D et al. Comparison of measured and predicted energy density of an oral care chew for dogs. J Nutr Sci 2017;6:e29
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines (July 2024), hosted by UK Pet Food
- WSAVA – Feeding treats to your dog
- WSAVA – Guide to Treats: Cats
- WikiVet – Water (Nutrition), citing NRC 2006
- Hill's Pet (BE) – Water
- WSAVA Body Condition Score charts – dogs and cats (2013)
- WSAVA Muscle Condition Score chart (Tufts 2013)
- PetMD – How to Calculate Your Dog's Healthy Weight (Stilwell DVM)
- Pet Nutrition at OVC (Univ. of Guelph) – Scoring for health
- Quimby J et al. 2021 AAHA/AAFP Feline Life Stage Guidelines. JFMS 23(3):211-233
- AAFP – 2021 Feline Life Stage Guidelines
- 2019 AAHA Canine Life Stage Guidelines – Canine life stage definitions
- IDEXX / Pet Health Network – How old is your pet in people years? (charts by F. L. Metzger DVM, DABVP)
- AVMA – Pets age faster than people (poster)
- AKC – How to calculate dog years to human years
- NHGRI – Researchers reframe dog-to-human aging comparisons (Wang et al., Cell Systems 2020)
- WSAVA 2024 Guidelines for the Vaccination of Dogs and Cats
- Squires RA et al. 2024 guidelines for the vaccination of dogs and cats (WSAVA VGG). JSAP 65(5):277-316, doi:10.1111/jsap.13718
- Day MJ. Dog Vaccination. WSAVA Congress 2018 (VIN)
- Day MJ. Cat Vaccination. WSAVA Congress 2018 (VIN)
- Zákon č. 39/2007 Z. z. o veterinárnej starostlivosti (Slov-Lex)
- Zákon 39/2007 Z. z. – aktuálne znenie (zakonypreludi.sk)
- Municipal notice (znves.sk) – Povinnosti chovateľa psa (2023, cites § 17 ods. 5, § 19 ods. 9, § 37, § 48)
- Obec Voznica – Informácia pre držiteľov psov
- Obec Letanovce – Čipovanie a vakcinácia psov a mačiek
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- Your Europe – Travelling with pets (dogs, cats, ferrets)
- Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 – EUR-Lex
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/131 – non-commercial movement of pet animals
- ESCCAP GL1 Worm Management Scheme Fact Sheet – Dogs (v8)
- ESCCAP GL1 Worm Management Scheme Fact Sheet – Cats (v8)
- ESCCAP Modular Guide 3 – Control of Ectoparasites in Dogs and Cats
- Probst J et al. Year-round tick exposure of dogs and cats in Germany and Austria. Parasites & Vectors 2023;16:70
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- Dirofilaria immitis/repens in dogs, Danubian Lowland, Slovakia 2019-2022. Parasitology Research 2023
- Iglódyová A et al. Canine dirofilariosis in the Eastern Slovak Lowland. Ann Agric Environ Med 2012;19(1):57-60