How many calories a day do cats need?
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Bob's getting fat.
He was 4 Kg when I adopted him, and is now 5 Kg and looking distinctly rotund.
That's from following the feeding guides on his dry food to the gram, although I can't be certain my Mad Old Catwoman neighbours aren't slipping him some titbits.
I'm intending switching him to a raw beef mince diet (which he's very happy about - funny that
)
Only does anyone know what the 'resting' energy requirement of an (ideally) 4 Kg adult cat is? I can work out how much to feed him from that.
Thanks very much in advance.
He was 4 Kg when I adopted him, and is now 5 Kg and looking distinctly rotund.
That's from following the feeding guides on his dry food to the gram, although I can't be certain my Mad Old Catwoman neighbours aren't slipping him some titbits.
I'm intending switching him to a raw beef mince diet (which he's very happy about - funny that
)Only does anyone know what the 'resting' energy requirement of an (ideally) 4 Kg adult cat is? I can work out how much to feed him from that.
Thanks very much in advance.
Mandatory Fields said:
2,500 for male cats and 2,00 for females, iirc.
Your memory is s
te, the Q was for a real cat. Average cats needs about 20 to 30 calories per pound of body weight per day.
http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/clinsci/wing/entera...
Edited by PeanutHead on Wednesday 5th September 09:52
My two cats get horrendous little pot bellies if I feed then dry food, so they live on wet food now of a pouch in the morning, and another in the evening. One is still a fraction tubby, but the other is the perfect size. They are quite small for cats though, so whilst two pouches a day works for them a bigger cat might want three.
Or whatever the equivalent weight in tinned food is, for the non-lazy people unlike myself.
Or whatever the equivalent weight in tinned food is, for the non-lazy people unlike myself.
I would imagine a whole lot less than we give them (or than they would ideally like!)
I had a conversation with a keeper at Cricket St Thomas a few years back about their Cheetahs. We were all saying they looked awfully thin but he was very much of the opinion that if they didn't (look thin) then their illness rate would escalate quite significantly ie they're not undernourished just mean't to look thin to our eyes.
I imagine there are a few differences in metabolism between small moggies and big cats but I doubt its very much.
We took one of ours as we thought he was a bit thin. Vet said he was a pin up model for the healthy cat!
I had a conversation with a keeper at Cricket St Thomas a few years back about their Cheetahs. We were all saying they looked awfully thin but he was very much of the opinion that if they didn't (look thin) then their illness rate would escalate quite significantly ie they're not undernourished just mean't to look thin to our eyes.
I imagine there are a few differences in metabolism between small moggies and big cats but I doubt its very much.
We took one of ours as we thought he was a bit thin. Vet said he was a pin up model for the healthy cat!
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