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Feeding plans, food switches and comparisons
The short guides answer one question each. These articles go wider: a food switch day by day, a diet plan week by week, or two ways of feeding the same animal side by side. The numbers still come from the tools.
- How to help a dog lose weight: a 12-week plan with the grams
Week by week: the weight to aim for, calories and grams of a weight-loss food for a 30 kg dog that should weigh 25, the 4-week check and what to change.
· 6 min read
- How to switch your dog to a new food: a 7-day plan with the grams
Day by day, how much of the old food and the new to put in the bowl so the calories stay the same while the food changes, for a 20 kg dog and by weight.
· 5 min read
- Switching a cat from dry to wet food: a 10-day plan with the pouches
Pouches and grams for each step from all kibble to half wet or all wet, for a 4 kg indoor cat and by weight, with the calories held steady and the cat kept eating.
· 5 min read
- How to read a pet food label: kcal/kg, kcal per cup and the feeding guide
What the calorie statement, the guaranteed analysis and the feeding guide on a bag or can actually tell you, with worked examples from the calculators.
· 6 min read