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I was wondering if I could get some help calorie counting for my cat. My cat came to me as a stray last summer and has been constantly hungry ever since. He’s a big enough cat at just over 6kg (~13lbs) – he carries the weight well enough and when last at the vet he said that he has a bit of meat on him but is at a weight that he’s happy with. I think, however, that he’s a bit on the pudgy side and am worried that if I continue to feed him as I am he’ll tip over to being on the overweight side.
I was just feeding him dry food but since joining this site I’ve realised that that isn’t the best for him and have tried to change that. I’ve had an awful time trying to find a wet food that he likes but it seems he puts up with is two flavours from the same brand of the dry food I give him. (This brand is grain free – although I do realise the dry food has potato as a filler.)
Generally what I feed him is:
1x 200g (~7oz) can of the wet food below in the morning
30g (approx.) of the dry food (~1oz) below made up of maybe two 15g servings in the late afternoon/evening
Wet food:
Composition
32% wild boar (comprising hearts, lungs, liver, meat), 32% duck (comprising hearts, liver), 28.8% duck broth, 4% reindeer, 2% cranberries, 1% minerals, 0.1% catnip, 0.1% linseed oil
OR
Composition
34% beef (comprising hearts, meat, lungs, liver), 34% buffalo (comprising lungs, hearts, liver), 28.8% beef broth, 2% currants, 1% minerals, 0.1% spirulina, 0.1% salmon oil
Dry food:
REAL NATURE WILDERNESS WIDE SAVANNAH ADULT Poultry with Lamb
Metabolisable energy
kcal/100g 375,399 (I’m not too sure why there are two numbers? – this is from their website and I can’t find a figure on the package)
kJ/100g 1.570,67
Composition
Chicken meat meal (22%), wild boar (18%), potatoes (dried, 14%), potato meal (11%), chicken fat (10%), turkey meal (5%), duck meal (4%), lamb meal (4%), protein (hydrolysed, 4%), apples (dried, 4%), fresh chicken liver (3%), spinach (0.5%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.012%), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.012%), blackcurrants (0.01%), blueberries (0.01%), yucca schidigera (dried, 0.007525%), cranberries (dried, 0.005%), rosemary (dried, 0.0034%), catnip (dried, 0.00204%), parsley (dried, 0.00136%), psyllium seed (dried, 0.00102%), stinging nettle (dried, 0.00085%), chamomile (dried, 0.00085%), algae (ascophyllum nodosum, dried, 0.00051%)
I give him the wet food maybe three/four times a week as another problem I’m finding is that he gets a pretty stinky bottom from it but that’s probably for another thread and I am trying to read up on it. When I just feed him dry food I give him approx. 60g/day split into two servings.
I was just feeding him dry food but since joining this site I’ve realised that that isn’t the best for him and have tried to change that. I’ve had an awful time trying to find a wet food that he likes but it seems he puts up with is two flavours from the same brand of the dry food I give him. (This brand is grain free – although I do realise the dry food has potato as a filler.)
Generally what I feed him is:
1x 200g (~7oz) can of the wet food below in the morning
30g (approx.) of the dry food (~1oz) below made up of maybe two 15g servings in the late afternoon/evening
Wet food:
- REAL NATURE WILDERNESS DARK FJORD ADULT Wild Boar with Duck & Reindeer
Metabolisable energy | |
kcal/100g | 100 |
kJ/100g | 420 |
32% wild boar (comprising hearts, lungs, liver, meat), 32% duck (comprising hearts, liver), 28.8% duck broth, 4% reindeer, 2% cranberries, 1% minerals, 0.1% catnip, 0.1% linseed oil
OR
- REAL NATURE WILDERNESS BLACK EARTH ADULT Beef & Buffalo
Metabolisable energy | |
kcal/100g | 121 |
kJ/100g | 507 |
34% beef (comprising hearts, meat, lungs, liver), 34% buffalo (comprising lungs, hearts, liver), 28.8% beef broth, 2% currants, 1% minerals, 0.1% spirulina, 0.1% salmon oil
Dry food:
REAL NATURE WILDERNESS WIDE SAVANNAH ADULT Poultry with Lamb
Metabolisable energy
kcal/100g 375,399 (I’m not too sure why there are two numbers? – this is from their website and I can’t find a figure on the package)
kJ/100g 1.570,67
Composition
Chicken meat meal (22%), wild boar (18%), potatoes (dried, 14%), potato meal (11%), chicken fat (10%), turkey meal (5%), duck meal (4%), lamb meal (4%), protein (hydrolysed, 4%), apples (dried, 4%), fresh chicken liver (3%), spinach (0.5%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.012%), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.012%), blackcurrants (0.01%), blueberries (0.01%), yucca schidigera (dried, 0.007525%), cranberries (dried, 0.005%), rosemary (dried, 0.0034%), catnip (dried, 0.00204%), parsley (dried, 0.00136%), psyllium seed (dried, 0.00102%), stinging nettle (dried, 0.00085%), chamomile (dried, 0.00085%), algae (ascophyllum nodosum, dried, 0.00051%)
Mixed feeding recommendations (according to the website) are as follows:
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