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This article first appeared in The Bark, Issue 66, Sep/Oct 2011
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The calorie calculation has been reported incorrectly. First, you do not clarify if the calculation should use pounds or kilograms for the weight of the dog. It must be in kilograms. Secondly, you have reported that the weight should be multiplied by 0.75. If you go to the chart at the link you provide, it is clear that you must raise the weight of the dog (in kilograms) to the 0.75 power. If you do the calculation this way, you will get the same kilocalorie values that are in the chart.
For example, for a 40 lb dog, do the calculation this way:
40 lb / 2.2 lb/kilogram = 18.181818182 kg
now:
18.181818182 ^ 0.75 = 8.8049720738
now:
8.8049720738 * 125 = 1100.6215092
which is (within rounding error) the same as the 1099 that is in the chart on the link. I did not round for the purposes of people being able to follow the calculations.