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anarchist_nomad) wrote2006-02-21 10:41 am
anarchist_nomad) wrote2006-02-21 10:41 am
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Day 81: Because I'm a Geek -- That's Why!
Just finished the twenty pound bag of cat food that I had opened on January 29th. I will have to open a new bag, on February 24nd. The newly depleted bag lasted for twenty-six days. That means that my cats consume food at a rate of 0.77 lbs per day.
Furthermore, since I have six cats, one can make the first-order approximation that they each consume the same amount of food. With this assumption, I find that each cat eats about 0.13 lbs of food per day.
That number seemed surprisingly low at first. However, the average weight of the cats at the Event Horizon is twelve pounds (individual weights are 7, 11, 11, 13, 14, and 16 pounds). So each cat is consuming about 1.06% of its body weight daily. That seems less surprising. I weigh 185 pounds; for me to consume the same percent of my body weight would mean that I eat about two pounds of food per day. I have not actually measured the weight of the food that I consume each day, but two pounds does not sound so unreasonable to me.
[2/24/2006 Addendum: The last bowls of food took longer than I expected to be eaten. So the numbers in this entry have been revised accordingly.]
Furthermore, since I have six cats, one can make the first-order approximation that they each consume the same amount of food. With this assumption, I find that each cat eats about 0.13 lbs of food per day.
That number seemed surprisingly low at first. However, the average weight of the cats at the Event Horizon is twelve pounds (individual weights are 7, 11, 11, 13, 14, and 16 pounds). So each cat is consuming about 1.06% of its body weight daily. That seems less surprising. I weigh 185 pounds; for me to consume the same percent of my body weight would mean that I eat about two pounds of food per day. I have not actually measured the weight of the food that I consume each day, but two pounds does not sound so unreasonable to me.
[2/24/2006 Addendum: The last bowls of food took longer than I expected to be eaten. So the numbers in this entry have been revised accordingly.]