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Formats are compared on three numbers that matter: energy density, moisture, and cost per day per calorie.
Dry kibble is the dense format: typically 3,300–3,800 kcal per kilogram, or roughly 350–450 kcal per measuring cup. That density is convenient and stores well, but it makes the scoop a dangerous unit — a heaped cup of a dense recipe can quietly add a fifth of the day's calories.
Wet food is the dilute format: 600–900 kcal per kilogram, because 70–80% of it is water. A 100 g pouch delivers only about 60–90 kcal, so a fully wet ration for a 10 kg dog would mean eight to twelve pouches a day. For cats this dilution is the point — the 70/30 wet-to-dry split exists to move water into the animal through the food.
Fat content explains most of the spread inside the dry category. A 9%-fat dry diet sits near 3,600 kcal per kilogram; an 18%-fat diet near 4,000 kcal per kilogram. Doubling the fat raises calories by only about 10%, but in a neutered dog that modest surplus is precisely what produces steady weight gain — and it arrives without any change in bowl size.
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Feeding guides on packaging are a starting hint, not a measurement. Two bags can both suggest a cup per 10 kg while differing by a hundred calories per cup, and guides are written for an average animal that may be more active and less neutered than yours. The reliable sequence is: compute the target from resting energy and life stage (see How much to feed), then weigh the portion of the specific food in front of you.
Cost comparisons only work per calorie, never per kilogram. Wet food is mostly water, so a kilogram of it feeds an animal for a fraction of the time a kilogram of kibble does. Dividing the price of each format by the calories it actually delivers is the only honest way to compare a day's feeding — a format that looks cheaper per kilogram may be dearer per day once the water is discounted.
Raw feeding sits outside the measured ranges on this page, and this reference does not price or endorse it. The arithmetic still applies unchanged: the daily calorie target comes from resting energy and life stage, whatever format fills the bowl has to be weighed against that target, and any format change runs through the 7–10 day transition described on Transitions and common faults.
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