Ready-made daily feeding charts · Pug
Four finished days of food for an adult Pug — at standard, small-framed, and reducing. Worked out in grams, split into meals, with the treat allowance already taken out. Print it and stick it on the food bin.
Resting need
333 kcal
Calculated as
70 × 8^0.75
Food assumed
3,500 kcal/kg
Treat allowance
53 kcal
The four charts
Every figure is resting energy (70 × weight to the power 0.75) multiplied by the factor for that dog’s status. Grams assume the food density shown — check your own bag and scale accordingly.
8 kg
At breed standard. Split into two meals, morning and evening.
533kcal per day
152grams per day @3,500
Resting
RER = 70 × 80.75the baseline every row is built from
333 kcal
Neutered
×1.6 of resting161 g @3,300 · 140 g @3,800 kcal/kg
533 kcal
Entire
×1.8 of resting182 g @3,300 · 158 g @3,800 kcal/kg
599 kcal
Treats
10% of the day, taken out of the rationabout two medium carrots
53 kcal
8 kg
At breed standard. Identical to the male — see the note below.
533kcal per day
152grams per day @3,500
Resting
RER = 70 × 80.75the baseline every row is built from
333 kcal
Neutered
×1.6 of resting161 g @3,300 · 140 g @3,800 kcal/kg
533 kcal
Entire
×1.8 of resting182 g @3,300 · 158 g @3,800 kcal/kg
599 kcal
Treats
10% of the day, taken out of the rationabout two medium carrots
53 kcal
6.3 kg
Bottom of the breed standard. A genuinely small Pug, not an underweight one.
445kcal per day
127grams per day @3,500
Resting
RER = 70 × 6.30.75the baseline every row is built from
278 kcal
Neutered
×1.6 of resting135 g @3,300 · 117 g @3,800 kcal/kg
445 kcal
Entire
×1.8 of resting152 g @3,300 · 132 g @3,800 kcal/kg
501 kcal
Treats
10% of the day, taken out of the rationone carrot, and not much else
45 kcal
11 kg → 8 kg
The most common real-world case. Fed on the target weight, not today’s.
333kcal per day
115grams per day @2,900
Correct
Resting energy for the 8 kg target101 g @3,300 · 115 g @2,900 light formula
333 kcal
The trap
1.6× resting for its current 11 kgwhat most calculators hand you
676 kcal
Gap
Daily surplus that keeps the weight onroughly double what the dog actually needs
+343 kcal
Meals
Three small meals rather than twoeasier on a flat-faced dog, more events in the day
38 g × 3
Timeline
At 1–2% of body weight per week110–220 g a week — a season’s project, not a fortnight’s
~18 weeks
Keep reading
Full guide
Puppy charts from 8 weeks, why weight is a breathing problem in this breed, the treat maths, how to feed a flat face, and a calculator for any weight.
Open the full Pug guide →
Different breed
The same method at the other end of the scale — and the genetics behind why Labradors are always hungry.
Open the Labrador chart →
All charts: drshintoantony.com/diet-charts