Oh, my head . . .
What I think I'll do, is give him 1/8 of a (5.5 oz) can for each meal. He was getting 1/8 can for the first 2 meals (morning and evening) with the remaining 1/4 can for the 3rd meal, all spread about 35-40 minutes apart. The first 1/8 was to make sure he'd keep it down, then I would add the supplements to the remaining 2 meals. This way I can still give him the first (let's see if his tummy is calm) meal, and add the supplements over 2 more meals. It just . . . doesn't seem like much food to me. But after the vet visit, I took an objective look at him and realized he doesn't have much of a "waist" and when I pet him, I don't really feel his ribs.
So he definitely could slim down a bit.
Since rabbit is a lean meat, I was thinking of continuing to feed the full can, since that's every 5 days and he loves it, plus it's carageenan-free
. The bedtime snacks are always raw, and the commercial foods are portioned at 1 oz. The others weren't weighed, so they may be more than 1 oz (1 turkey tender, which varies in size, 3, 4 or 5 raw chicken hearts, and 3 raw gizzards cut up small). There's not much I can do about what's already portioned, but going forward I can weigh those as I portion them. Does this all sound like it's still too much, when added to the amount of canned? Or should I just go with this for now and see how things go?
Maybe I'm focusing too much on this, but I do think the pumpkin may have added to his weight. It's the only carb he was getting, and now that he's not shedding as much (knock on wood), I've stopped it, though I'm still giving the lecithin. I haven't really fed the canned duck in a while, either, which is high in fat. He just doesn't care for it and it takes too long to get him to eat it.
No, I don't have a baby scale. I would use my scale, weigh myself, pick him up, weigh again and subtract the difference. But since we're tracking ounces, that method won't work, so I'll look for one.