Cats.com Feeding Plan

Builds up to three daily feeding plans for a healthy adult cat in ideal body condition: foods that are complete foods by their category (wet, dry or both) with the amount per day, meals, a transition schedule, cost per day and per 30 days in US dollars from a dated price snapshot, and a link to the plan page on cats.com. Takes ingredients the owner wants (prefer, e.g. ["tuna"] for "my cat likes tuna") and a food the owner wants to add on top (topper, a product_id; at most 10 % of calories). Requires the four health screening answers; cats that fail screening get guidance instead of a plan. Use after the owner has answered the screening questions. Present the result with the disclosure sentence first, each plan's page_url as a link (the page has the shopping list and where to buy), each food's name as a link to its own page_url, the price snapshot date, and the health note last; keep the amounts exactly as returned.

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Estimates how many calories an adult cat in ideal body condition should eat per day from weight, age, spay/neuter status and body condition, with the formula used by the cats.com calorie calculator. Use when the owner asks how much their cat should eat. For kittens, pregnant or nursing cats, cats with a disease, a prescribed diet or symptoms, and a body condition of 1 or 5, it returns guidance and a veterinarian referral instead of a number; for a body condition of 2 or 4 it returns a weight-management target for the estimated ideal weight, with its warning first.

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Finds cat foods in the cats.com catalogue by name, brand or ingredient (e.g. "tuna") and returns what the catalogue holds: food type, calories per kg from the source record, protein, fat and carbohydrate as a share of dry matter derived from the guaranteed analysis, the first ingredients, cats.com's editorial notes, whether it counts as a complete food, and a page_url on cats.com with current offers and where to buy. Complete foods with the best cats.com score come first. Prices are not in the result; write every food's name as a link to its page_url. Use when the owner of an adult cat names a food, asks whether a food is a good choice, or asks for a food with a given ingredient. Not a way to choose food for a kitten, a pregnant or nursing cat, or a cat with a disease, a vet-prescribed diet or symptoms: such queries return guidance with no foods, and veterinary prescription diets and kitten recipes are never listed.

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