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My cats each get a 1/4 cup of dry in the am and they split a small can at night. They eat high quality food though and since there's no fillers they eat less than a typical side of the bag would recommend.

My dog is 3 yrs old and 80 pounds; she gets 3 cups per day, divided into two meals.

60 lb dog gets 1c at breakfast and 2c at dinner. 15 lb cat gets 1/4c breakfast and dinner.

@locavore_mama: OMG if I had to feed her less than 1/4 cup a meal she'd be eating crumbs!

Dog - corgi - 27lbs and he gets 3/4 cup dry food twice/day (used to be 1/2 cup but he got more active when we moved so we had to up it).

Cats- 2 of them, 12lb and 7lb. We were feeding them a total of 1 cup/day (split into two feedings) dry food, but they went on a dry food strike and we had to switch to wet. We're still trying to figure out the right amount to feed them with that. We started with 2 3-oz cans + 1/2 cup dry food per day (split into two feedings) which they're eating but not gaining back the weight they lost from the hunger strike. Then we tried 4 cans/day with no wet food and they don't finish it. So now we're trying 3 cans/day with 1/4 cup dry food and they'll actually eat most of that... so we're seeing if that gets their weights back to where they should be.

Our 11lb yorkie has food out all day. She only will nibble when she is hungry!

Our yorkies eat about 1/2 cup of dry food or dehydrated food daily. Our golden eats like 3 cups of dry food.

Our dogs get a cup and a half twice a day. The cats free feed dry food and they share a half a can of wet food about every other day.

@mrs bunchy: my 15 lb dachshund too. Her bowl usually needs to be filled once every 3 or 4 days...we are bad & give her table scraps too.

@Mae: you probably already are doing it but high quality food makes a big difference!

@hotchildinthecity: Yep, we're on it! That's honestly sort of the problem. Our cat got sick about 2 years ago and lost a lot of weight and since then we've been very careful to feed the cats high quality food. But they prefer the shit. lol. We've had to switch a few times because we've just never found anything they like as much as they like cheap food. And they'll be okay with something for a few months... then suddenly refuse to eat it anymore. Stubborn! hah

My cat has a small bowl (about the size of a cup measurement) which we fill each night before bed. She self-regulates, and probably eats about 1/3 - 1/2 of it in a 24 hours period. She's ten years old!

@Mae: small. freakin. world.

@Mae: @hotchildinthecity: idk how true it is, but I heard lower quality dog foods spray chemicals on their kibble to make it more enticing/tasty. I bet they do that w/ cat food ,
Too, and that's why they prefer the shit food over the good stuff :T

@Mae: lol. Never thought about it like that but I think you're right

We normally feed our 70 lb dog 2 cups twice a day but we pretty much free feed. Somedays she will only eat 1 cup all day, other days she'll eat all four cups and we'll give her an extra cup and she'll eat that too! But she's a healthy weight for her frame, so we just go with it! I wish I could self-regulate like she does!!

As much as they want, they're still kittens & growing at a totally unreasonable rate, ummm... >9oz each last wk alone! They are going to be enormous cats when they are full grown!

My GSP gets natural balance duck -2 heaping cups a day (all at once).

1/2 cup 2x a day

Half a cup, twice a day. He is a overweight puggle at 40lbs.