Question

An outdoor cat as a maintenance requirement = (105) (metabolic body weight). You have a 5 kg outdoor cat and are feeding a diet that contains 3.5 kcal/g.

1. How many grams of this diet should you be feeding?
2. Provide one scenario in which this cat would need more energy than what you just calculated and one scenario in which it would need less energy
3. If the cat requires more energy than you have calculated but it is unable to consume more feed, how would you adjust the feed to meet the energy need

Answer 1

The metabolic weight of 5kg outdoor cat is 3.34 kg (Metabolic weight is equal to weight0.75)

An outdoor cat as a maintenance requirement = 105

(Please note here I am considering this given value as cats’s energy level)

Calories to fed cat = Metabolic Weight number x Energy level (for cat maintenance)

which is equal to 3.34 x 105 = 350.7 kcal require to feed daily

a. Since cat diet contains 3.5 kcal/g. The grams of this diet should you be feeding =

350.7 / 3.5 = 100.2g

100.2g of this diet should be required to feed the cat for maintenance.

b. When energy level depends on physical acticvity. Less activity has lesser energy level and more active one has higher energy level. Ther is a scale for this value. When cat is old and less active, this cat would need more energy.

Whereas, young and active cat would require more energy due to higher energy value. So in such scenerio, this cat would need more energy.

c. If the cat requires more energy than calculated but it is unable to consume more feed, then food with higher calories per gram should give to the cat.

For example, if cat requires 500kcal than calculate 350.7kcal, then increase of kcal/g will help meet energy requirement without increasing gram of diet.

In question, this line is little confusing - An outdoor cat as a maintenance requirement = (105) (metabolic body weight)

Is it (105) energy required for maintenance or a metabolic body weight?

Please clarify in comment box. Otherwise answer is correct.