rwbeagles-got a dog over 70lbs? I'd like to hear from ya

Hmmm, ok will give it a shot. Kord runs super lean still but he is maintaining his weight of 76lbs and the vet said let him be.

4 cups of kibble, daily, spilt into 2 meals, morning and evening. When he was a puppy, it was 6 cups in 3 meals, morning, noon and night.

1 whole egg, every other day to every 2 days.

The Glenda Special, every other day. The off day he gets either raw meat, organ meat or canned Jack Mackeral.

Pre cooking and after dinner scraps, if there are any.......

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Glenda, let's try to be a bit light hearted here okay *editing because I was snippy* (this may be as simple as info for info's sake, or as simple as "Gina is a nosy youknowwhat";) so bear with me if you don't mind?

I'd rather not have serious as death, number crunching convo's here, just layperson simple measurements.

If it's not something you want to do or feel you can share then feel free to not.

I use a plastic drinking cup, and i've measured it to be about 1.5 cups. Each dog (both are right around 90lbs) get 2 of my cups per day, so about 3 cups per dog. Kaiser is lean, and often skips meals. Wyatt is about just right and acts hungry. I don't go overboard with treats, but i give them 1 or 2 through the day. Sometimes i'll also give them 3 nature's variety raw nugget things a piece.

RidgebackGermansShep

3 nature's variety raw nugget things a piece

See now I have to get some of these so I can say "raw nugget things"...LOL. Off to google....

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And I will add, that if you add up the kibble and the raw/homecooked he is also running at about 5 cups a day.

rwbeagles

See now I have to get some of these so I can say "raw nugget things"...LOL. Off to google....

HAHA! I cannot remember what those things are called for the life of me! they have the patties too...they're frozen raw and you thaw them out. expensive, but the dogs love them!

just looked it up! they're called "medallions"

RidgebackGermansShep

just looked it up! they're called "medallions"

Snoooooooty eh? I like nugget things better....or if I may take a bit of artistic license..."nugget thingies". Thanks!

Whew - good thing for me, this isn't scientific. Sassy weighs 75 lbs and she is fed 2x a day. I use an old margarine container (16 oz) and fill it up to about an inch from the top with her kibble. She gets a spoonful or so of canned mixed in because I need something to hide her pills in (thyroid, benadryl). She's maintained her weight on that amount for a few years now. She's about 8 y.o. and not super active either. Because of allergies, she only get carrots for treats.

Buffy weighs about 5-10 lbs less, but eats about the same amount. She's eaten that amount for several years too.

cakana

Whew - good thing for me, this isn't scientific

Hey Cathy I used my science textbooks as pillows so none of that from me...be assured LOL!

Thank you, and everyone so far for indulging my impudent curiosity!

Well, I kind of thought the same thing?  I measured my livestock guardian food by the pound until I switched them to a more concentrated food.  Lu, the female (90 pounds) ate about 1 1/2 pounds and Tully, the male (unneutered, 150 pounds) ate 2 1/2 pounds.

They now eat 3 cups and 4 cups respectively.  They also supplement their diets from the neighbor's "dead pile" but that's not a significant energy source - and I give them large butcher bones in the "off season" between right after weaning and the heat of late summer

Lu stays quite trim, while Tully runs on the fat side of healthy weights, constantly.  I fed another (grain free) food which shall remain nameless, for a while, which trimmed him up for a while, until our neighbor with the cattle tore down the back fence to his property, giving my dogs access to his calf creep feeder. 

Once Mick was done growing, he got 2 cups of food daily.  It didn't seem to matter if it was Pro Plan, Canidae, Nature's Variety or Natural Balance.  The only time that amount changed was as he got older, he'd only eat 1 1/2 cups total a day.  Oh, Mick was 75 pounds.