Hi all!
My elder cat Lola has a mouth cancer and can't eat on her own anymore. I'm syringe feeding her with special canned food, namely Royal Canin Recovery that comes in 195 grams cans.
The label states that this has 1,200 kcal/kg.
My cat weighs around 2,700 kg, she was much heavier one year ago, but she went through a terrible year since last February and due to this she lost weight never to regain it.
One of the doctor she went to told me that the daily energy requirement for a cat can be calculated with the following formula
kcal = (30 x kg) + 70
where kg is the weight of the cat.
In my case the formula gives kcal = (30 x 2,7) + 70 = 151
First, is this formula correct? I checked on the web and found several sites with different tables but with similar results.
In order to give my cat at least 150-155 kcal a day I should feed her with 125 g of Recovery.
I thought to boost the energy supply with a supplement by Virbac called Nutriplus Gel. Its label says 3770 kcal/kg.
So I thought to add this supplement to Recovery, 30 g each can. This way each gram of food supplies 1.53 kcal and I can give her less food for the same energy.
I can only feed her three times a day on the weekdays and four times on the weekends.
Second question, is the energy supplied stated on the labels the same that the cat will methabolize? This is important because in the case it isn't I should need to correct the amount of daily food.
Any advice is welcome!
Thanks!
My elder cat Lola has a mouth cancer and can't eat on her own anymore. I'm syringe feeding her with special canned food, namely Royal Canin Recovery that comes in 195 grams cans.
The label states that this has 1,200 kcal/kg.
My cat weighs around 2,700 kg, she was much heavier one year ago, but she went through a terrible year since last February and due to this she lost weight never to regain it.
One of the doctor she went to told me that the daily energy requirement for a cat can be calculated with the following formula
kcal = (30 x kg) + 70
where kg is the weight of the cat.
In my case the formula gives kcal = (30 x 2,7) + 70 = 151
First, is this formula correct? I checked on the web and found several sites with different tables but with similar results.
In order to give my cat at least 150-155 kcal a day I should feed her with 125 g of Recovery.
I thought to boost the energy supply with a supplement by Virbac called Nutriplus Gel. Its label says 3770 kcal/kg.
So I thought to add this supplement to Recovery, 30 g each can. This way each gram of food supplies 1.53 kcal and I can give her less food for the same energy.
I can only feed her three times a day on the weekdays and four times on the weekends.
Second question, is the energy supplied stated on the labels the same that the cat will methabolize? This is important because in the case it isn't I should need to correct the amount of daily food.
Any advice is welcome!
Thanks!