6/18/18 Olive AMPS 175; +4=229; +7=192; PMPS 253; +5.5=90

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She is having a :cool: beginning to the day. Hope it continues throughout.

I changed up the food schedule last night. Most food given by +4 and a small snack @ +8. We will see if this helps.

Someone posted some time back the formula for figuring out calories, I can't find it, does anyone know? It was something like ideal weight x 13 + ?
 
A nice blue start for Olive!
I too am changing up Boomer's food schedule in an effort to reduce his calories and I would also be interested in the formula you mentioned above.
 
I just found the calculation. I've been guessing quite well. Olive should be getting 2.6 cans of FF (remember different brands have different calories) per day. She has been getting 2.5-3 per day. Tux would be the same and PJ & Tripper would get 2 cans a day.
 
Doodles & Karen said:
She could be breaking a bounce today. 15 calories per lb is what I go with but if they are more active you can up that to 20 calories per lb.
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Olive is good at the 15. Tux and PJ could use the 20+. Vet doesn't want PJ to heavy because of leg. Actually today is weigh day. Thanks for reminder.
 
Judy and Boomer said:
So would that be 15 calories per pound that they should weigh?
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ECID of course :rolleyes: 15 cal per lb of their ideal weight is the minimum they should have. If they need to lose weight you have to go slowly with reducing calories as too much weight loss in a short period of time is not good. 15 cal per lb is for senior/ less active cats. This said, by weighing them regularly is the best way to judge if they are eating to much or to little. Does that make sense?
 
If you don’t already have a digital baby scale it’s a good investment. They are about $40 on Amazon if you time it right. Different foods have different calories. I’m feeding duck to one now and one brand is 59 an ounce and another 71. I’m using the one with less calories so I can feed more food. I think my two are pretty active but they need way fewer calories than the manufacturers recommend.
 
tiffmaxee said:
If you don’t already have a digital baby scale it’s a good investment. They are about $40 on Amazon if you time it right. Different foods have different calories. I’m feeding duck to one now and one brand is 59 an ounce and another 71. I’m using the one with less calories so I can feed more food. I think my two are pretty active but they need way fewer calories than the manufacturers recommend.
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Don't have baby scale but do have digital weight watchers scale. We weigh about every 10 days or so. Yesterday was hot so they didn't eat as well as they normally do. Last night we got the air units in and today they are making up for it.
 
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