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Pet‐specific care is about providing customized care for pets (based on breed, lifestyle, medical history, other risk factors, etc.), and constitutes an important and value‐added healthcare experience for pet owners. It could be considered as “the right care, for the right pet, at the right time.”

Pet‐specific care involves approaches that allow predictions to be made as to an individual's susceptibility to disease, its possible prevention, prospects for early detection, the course of that disease, and the disease's likely response to treatment.

The goal of pet‐specific care is to prevent disease, if at all possible, or to decrease the impact of the disease on the patient, thereby improving the pet's quality of life. This is typically accomplished by identifying risk factors so that veterinary teams and pet owners can be proactive in instituting lifestyle modifications and increased veterinary surveillance so that problems can be detected at the earliest opportunity, hopefully while they are still subclinical, and when there are typically the most options available for successful management.

Pet‐specific care is also known by several other terms, including:

 Personalized medicine

 Precision medicine

 Pet‐centric care

 Client‐centric care

 Lifelong care

 Theranostics

 Stratified medicine

 Predictive medicine

 Patient‐specific medicine

 P4 medicine

 Genomic medicine

 Individualized medicine.