Picture of a "CUP SIZE" that you feed your Dobes.

I use a dog food scoop that actually measures up to one (dry) cup.

I use a metal scoop that holds 8 ounces.

You can buy the package of plastic measuring cups. The package has 4 cups/four sizes, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and 1 cup. The one cup is what I use to measure.

I also use an actual one measuring cup from the set you buy for your kitchen. The suggested feeding guidelines for many dog foods refer to the volume of food as opposed to the weight. So if you want to be more sure about the amount you are feeding you could just do a quick measure with an actual measuring cup and then you will know that your cup is actually "x" number of cups and go from there using the same scoop you are currently using

I use a kitchen scale; raw feeder

I eyeball it - check the dog for size and add or subtract food accordingly - 1 back plus a handful of meat or maybe just 1/2 handful of meat - if the meat is fatty, remove the fat or feed less, etc.

My cup size is actually a big larger than it appeared in the pics. I use 1 full and would fill up his bowl and by the look of his belly after he ate it all, looks like he's full, too. But just wanna see what others have been using for theirs.

Thanks so much for the inputs. Still need to see your cup size tho...lol

RottenVonSpotten said:

I actually feed 2 real cups per feeding. No guestimating here because I need to be able to put the exact amount the dogs eat on their foster profiles for their future families to reference.

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I'm not sure if you've noticed this or not...but I swear this measures larger than a true cup. I've poured food from the scoop (even scoop..not overflowing scoop) into a real measuring cup, and it spills out over the 1 cup I have. Have you noticed the same? I'm pretty sure we're using the same exact one.

I'll try to get a picture of it but I use a measuring cup that equals 1 cup.

I use a kitchen measuring cup. A glass one.

Ninabug said:

I'm not sure if you've noticed this or not...but I swear this measures larger than a true cup. I've poured food from the scoop (even scoop..not overflowing scoop) into a real measuring cup, and it spills out over the 1 cup I have. Have you noticed the same? I'm pretty sure we're using the same exact one.

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No I've never noticed that, but I've never even thought to check! I could see that being true though looking at it now.

Is that picture showing up huge? I swear photobucket has been playing tricks on me lately. I post pictures I've resized and they always look enormous till a couple days/hours later.

RottenVonSpotten said:

No I've never noticed that, but I've never even thought to check! I could see that being true though looking at it now.

Is that picture showing up huge? I swear photobucket has been playing tricks on me lately. I post pictures I've resized and they always look enormous till a couple days/hours later.

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It looks normal to me.

i use a plastic glass that hold exactly two cups

I feed raw and i use a scale, I measure out each meal to be exactly a pound. I don't want Monty to have an extra ounce on him.

Picture of "CUP SIZE"

- no thank you...this is a family forum / He-He

I actually use a dry measuring cup also.