7 cups of food a day for my big guy

[SARAHSMITH]

I'm not sure what my 16 month old male weighs, but he is huge. In fact, he looks twice the size of his sisters. He currently eats at least 6, but usually 7 cups of Wellness puppy food a day.
I am in the process of switching him over to an adult food. I bought Taste of the Wild Salmon and am slowly incorporating it in his food.
7 cups of food seems like ALOT to me, but I guess a big dog = a big appetite!

[Emoore]

Taste of The Wild Salmon is a fairly low-calorie food. You'd be able to feed less if you fed something with more nutrition per cup.

[Josie/Zeus]

7 cups? Wow that's a lot of food. I feed raw but am currently all out of raw food so I picked up a couple of bags of Nature's Variety that should last a week. It calls for 3-4 cups a day and Koda is a huge puppy, he is just over 90 lbs.@ 9.5 months old.

I got 2 small bags because the store was offering $5 off per bag.

[SARAHSMITH]

I just looked up the calories per cup for Wellness Puppy (450) and TOTW is about 100 calories less per cup. I guess that wasn't a good choice for him.

[wildo]

• TOTW Pacific Stream (Salmon) is 3600 kcal/kg.
• There are 2.2lbs in a kg, so dividing 3600 by 2.2 gives you 1636.4 kcal/lbs.
• There are 16 oz in a pound, and a cup is 8oz, so dividing 1636.4 by 2 gives you 818 calories/cup.

My 6 year old active female adult gets 3 cups per day, or 2454.5 calories. Recently due to excercise restriction (being a bum in the house) she is down to 2.5 cups per day, or 2045 calories. Now, I won't deny that perhaps a young male needs a bit more calories than an older female, but If you were to feed this food at 7 cups per day, that would be a whopping 5727 calories!

Honestly, I'd guess that you are overfeeding your dog.

[wildo]

Boo... edit timeout.


Sorry for the miscalculation above. I was incorrectly thinking about an 8oz cup. However, TOTW is not 8oz/cup. Here's the proper math:

• TOTW Pacific Stream (Salmon) is 3600 kcal/kg and 360 kcal/cup
• There are 2.2lbs in a kg, so dividing 3600 by 2.2 gives you 1636.4 kcal/lbs.
• There are 16oz in a pound, so dividing 1636.4 by 16 yields 102.275 kcal/oz
• There are 360 kcal/cup, so dividing that by 102.275 gives you 3.51 oz/cup, which is interesting but not super useful. It might help you evaluate the density though.

And the proper calorie count for my dog (which I was using as a comparison)-

My 6 year old active female adult gets 3 cups per day, or 1080 calories. Recently due to exercise restriction (being a bum in the house) she is down to 2.5 cups per day, or 900 calories. Now, I won't deny that perhaps a young male needs a bit more calories than an older female, but If you were to feed this food at 7 cups per day, that would be a whopping 2520 calories!

Again- sorry for the miscalculation. So engrained to think of a cup as 8oz.

[gsd_newbie]

They said the standard cup weights 95 grams, so 07 cups per day (665 grams) is okay for your dog, just my opinion. Before I switch my dogs to RAW, they all have about 600 grams of RC per day in one meal (a little bit more or less as I didn't weight).

[Duke and Dylan]

I have a 3 year old sheperd, 92 pounds, very active about 3 hours of playing ball a day, eats 8 to 10 cups

[onyx'girl]

SARAHSMITH, Why are you still feeding puppy food to a 16 month old?

Duke and Dylan, what are you feeding that you have to feed that amount? Wow, bet you go thru alot of food!

[jocoyn]

Originally Posted by Duke and Dylan

I have a 3 year old sheperd, 92 pounds, very active about 3 hours of playing ball a day, eats 8 to 10 cups

Three hours a day of playing ball? For real?