Your dog’s needs today
Enter your dog’s breed, age, current weight and activity level. Growth, pregnancy and nursing details adapt the calculation to their life stage. Calculations for dogs of different breeds and sizes use the details you provide.
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Ingredients at home. Quantities for your dog.
Enter your dog’s details. Pawsmenu calculates energy and nutrient targets, and prepares chicken, turkey, beef and fish menu options for supported profiles.
From your details to menu options
Let Pawsmenu prepare the menus
After you complete your dog’s details, four options are calculated together. Switch between chicken, turkey, beef and fish to see ingredients and amounts.
See daily energy and protein
View the total amount or a share based on your selected meal count. Expand the recorded protein, fat, vitamin and mineral content if you wish. Recalculate when your dog’s details change.
Choose what you have at home.
Use the separate planner to choose your ingredients. Select the foods you have and how they are prepared; we will calculate amounts for your dog’s profile. Unselected foods will not be added.
Calculate with my ingredientsWork out how much to use.
Pawsmenu calculates the ingredients and amounts. Calculated amounts are estimates. These menus have not been verified as a complete and balanced daily diet. They should not be used as the sole daily diet.
NRC energy and protein references
Energy and protein needs are calculated from NRC 2006 references using your dog’s details and life stage. The calculated recommended protein allowance is retained as the minimum target. No fixed protein density or ceiling of 30% above the NRC reference is imposed on every dog.
Energy uses an app tolerance of ±10%. Protein is not reduced by this tolerance; it must meet the NRC protein reference. Having no numerical protein ceiling does not establish that unlimited protein intake is safe.
The menu catalog is limited to 19 ingredients with defined preparation methods. Of the total cooked or ready-to-serve weight, meat and fish make up at least 40%, starchy ingredients at most 35%, vegetables 15–25%, and added oil at most 6%. There is no 30% minimum for starch. These proportions are PawsMenu recipe preferences, not NRC requirements. Added oil and total prepared weight are also considered when comparing suitable options. Pantry calculations use only the ingredients you select.
Menus for adult, senior, growing and pregnant dogs use their own NRC references in the same recipe checks. Recorded amino acids and total fat are checked, and known nutrient upper-limit excesses are rejected. Missing data are not treated as zero. For nursing dogs, daily amounts are not provided without verified complete nutrient and energy data.
The result is calculated using NRC energy and protein references. Adequacy of all vitamins and minerals has not been verified. This calculation is not a digestibility measurement, clinical validation or a guarantee of a complete and balanced daily diet.
In your everyday kitchen, through each life stage.
How does it help at each life stage?Dog feeding: meals, pet food and daily tracking
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