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Originally Posted by Lil Sis  Thanks...that is good advice. Thank you Cathy for all your recommendations, I think the balance-it is working well. I have the recipes also.
Because of my Food and Nutrition background it is easier for my brain to understand the calories... some of the recipes were a bit confusing to me.
One site said a 20 lbs dog should eat 2 cups of homecooked food a day. That was way too much..
I can visualize 200 calories.. I am working on about 500 calories for Bailey (25 lb shih tuz who needs to loose about 5 lbs).. Well Sam somewhere in between. |
Two cups may not be too much depending on the calories in the food and such. Barney who is 8.5 lbs eats 1 cup of food a day on average plus snacks. He is an ideal weight and good body tone, etc, especially for his age (almost 11). He eats 262 kcal/day. In Barney's case, he is on 3% fat for the rest of his life because of his history of pancreatitis so the volume of other items make up the majority of his calories.
I bought the diet for teddy from Dr. Remillard's site
Welcome to Pet Diets (not the BI site) for $25 and I like those diets better plus we treat with Dr. Remillard.