How Many Calories Do Cats Need Per Day. Why do mature senior and geriatric cats need to be fed differently. An overweight 5-pound cat needs about 180 calories per day.
Different brands and flavours of food will have slightly different calories. Kittens pregnant and lactating cats require more calories. The average outdoor only cat should have 35 calories per pound to maintain weight.
Similar to humans energy or calorie requirements in cats initially decrease in their senior years but unlike humans energy requirements start to increase around 11 years of age.
Since the calorie content of the wet cat food is 95 kcalcan you would determine how much wet food to feed your cat by dividing 346 kcalday by 95 kcalcan. Some older cats will actually have an increase in energy requirements. The daily energy requirements for a typical inactive adult is about 40-45 kilocalories per kilogram of body weight per day denoted as kcalkgday whereas the energy requirement for active or underweight cats is up to 80 kcalkgday. 26 rows Thats one of the reasons why kittens require on average twice as many calories per their body.
