8 nuggets for one meals SEEMS like a lot ...in combination with 4 other meals. Are 8 nuggets the suggested serving? Are the other meals a lot smaller? NOT judging or anything wacky like that...just very curious.
Okay this is what I did. On the package, the recommended feeding for a 7 pound cat (she is slightly less than 7 pounds) is .9 cup (9/10 cup) a day. Since I wanted her to only have one meal a day of the S&C, I needed to know how many nuggets that would be, so I filled a one cup measuring cup with nuggets...it took 35 nuggets. Split into five meals a day, that would be 7 nuggets per meal. I started with 4, and gradually worked up to the 7. One day I dropped an extra one in, and she ate it all, so now I give her 8. At approximately 6 calories a nugget, that is a good high calorie meal for her, 48 calories. Once the nuggets are completely hydrated it does not look like very much food at all.
I will take a picture of what they look like, hydrated, tomorrow, she's already had her raw meal today.
Her other four canned meals consist of .75 ounces of canned food per serving. She will eat no more canned food than that, ever. Since I have not ever been able to get her to eat more than 3 ounces of canned a day, she also gets 1/8 cup of Evo chicken kibble as a bedtime snack, it is the only way I can get enough calories into her. Up until I started the Stella&Chewy's that's all she was eating. 3 ounces of canned, and 1/8 cup of Evo, as four canned meals and the kibble snack. The S&C is actually working out to be an extra added meal, and it is the extra meal she needed to gain those last few ounces to be slender instead of too skinny.
That's why I decided to try it in the first place, I was desperate to find something extra to add to her daily intake, and I wasn't finding anything canned she would eat, or could eat, as she has some sensitivities, such as carrageenan.
So, to break it down here's how her food has been served today so far:
8:00 a.m. declined to eat
8:30 a.m. .75 ounces By Nature Organic Turkey&Chicken, with ProViable DC added
9:30 a.m. declined to eat
12:30 p.m. .75 ounces Caster&Pollux chicken casserole
5:30 p.m. 8 nuggets Stella&Chewy, re-hydrated
7:30 p.m. .75 ounces By Nature Organic Turkey&Chicken
at about 10:00 p.m. she will have another .75 ounces of the By Nature organic
at about 11:30 pm she will have her 1/8 cup of Evo kibble
The schedule was slightly different today, because I have been home all day for the holiday. Normally, morning meals are closer together and earlier, the midday meal is usually around 2 and the first evening meal wouldn't be until 8 p.m. and they eat at 8, 9:30 10:30 and 11:30.
Hmm...I guess that's six meals a day, not five, LOL.
The other cats do not get any kibble. This one just needs that extra bit of variety in texture and flavor every day, to keep her eating.