The Feeding Reference

CANINE · PROTOTYPE v0.2

1 Patient

Body condition score — 9 point

2 Goal

4 Energy target

Factor applied to RER1.40

Dashed chips are set from the patient details above. Solid chips are yours. Everything here moves the dial inside the published range for this life stage. Nothing here is a separate multiplier.

StepValuekcal / day

Where this number sits

Canine energy requirements vary by roughly 30% either way from any formula. Treat the figure as the starting point of a monitored trial, not a prescription. The ticks show what other accepted methods would have given for this patient.

±30% variance Published range for this goal Your target

5 Food

What are they eating now?

6 Note for the owner

Unnamed patient
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kcal per day, total
Feed each day
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Saved patients

Nothing saved yet. A saved patient comes back with the plan and the whole weigh-in log.

RER = 70 × kg^0.75 · MER = RER × life stage factor · Ideal weight = weight today ÷ (1 + 0.10 × (BCS − 5)) · weeks = ln(goal ÷ start) ÷ ln(1 − rate). Life stage factors from the AAHA 2021 Nutrition and Weight Management Guidelines, Box 1. Weight loss at 1.0 × RER on goal weight, 1 to 2% of body weight per week, and the 10% treat ceiling per AAHA, the Pet Nutrition Alliance and APOP. The 63 kcal/kg^0.75 alternative is the mean intake achieving loss over 12 weeks cited in the AAHA guidelines. Variance figure from WSAVA. Obesity threshold of 30% above ideal per the Global Pet Obesity Initiative.

Growth, gestation and lactation are deliberately not in this build. The nutrient adequacy layer is next.