I am considering cutting Cleo's food intake a little. I don't want to feed her large quantities at one time. She is a 90lb. Presa Canario pup. She is fairly active and gets about 30-45 of swimming and/or walking per day. In addition, she goes everywhere with me so her days are pretty full. She is not fat but is filling out a bit; I'm concerned about future risk of bloat (see previous post in this section)

She is on RAW only. I currently feed her about 2lbs in the morning and about 1.5 lbs in the evening. I'm thinking of cutting that to 1.5lb am and 1lb pm.

Is that enough food for her age and size?

Thats sounds like it should be fine to try. Especially if you think she could be heading toward the plump department.

How close do you think she is to adult weight?

Hi Mike,

She still pretty lean. Not sure how big she'll get. Her Mom is about 120 lbs.

Looked back through the threads to find her age, and I keep forgetting she is so young.

Also remembered her "empty stomach vomits". How is that going?

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O.K., a little thinking out loud now.

Right now you are feeding 4% of her weight and wanting to go to 3%.

I thought "filling out a bit", meant you thought she was *possibly* gaining excess weight, not her normal growth. But she isn't getting overweight at all, right? Just want to make sure I got that right.

If the current feeding amount is letting her grow normally, while keeping up with her activity level, I'm not sure if you would want to decrease her intake.

You are good to keep on top of the bloat risk. Out of all the contributing factors that you listed in your other thread, genetics is the one that should and did jump out. Doesn't mean that she is destined to bloat, but I think that genetic factor is far above food/water dish height, time in between eating and exercise, and water intake.

The only "better" option that comes to mind is finding somewhere in the day to squeeze in a small meal/snack. Then when she gets older maybe cutting back on intake.

I'm nowhere close to a bloat X-pert, so take all this FWIW. Not a lot.

Her vomiting has disappeared. I think it was a function of her getting used to digesting bone. She hasn't vomited since around the time of that thread. Thanks for remembering, and asking

By "filling out a bit" I just meant that she seems to be putting on muscle. She still seems pretty lean.

Great suggestion about sneaking in snack--that phrase has a pleasing ring to it I'll try to toss her a duck neck here and there.

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Great suggestion about sneaking in snack--that phrase has a pleasing ring to it I'll try to toss her a duck neck here and there.

After I read back a little, I just thought better of reducing her intake by a 1 lb. That's around 25%.

It sounded better, if you were wanting to reduce meal size, to let her have it back in another smaller meal/snack.

Sorry I said it sounded O.K. at first. I shoulda' looked back or asked some more questions before I posted.