It was a Tuesday. My vet looked at my golden retriever, Max, and said the words no dog owner wants to hear: "He is getting chunky."
I was offended. Max was not chunky. He was... fluffy. Majestic. Big-boned. The vet handed me a printout with calorie calculations and I stared at it like it was written in ancient Greek. RER? Multiplier? What?
Turns out feeding a dog is not guesswork. There is actual math. Vets do it every day. But regular people like me? We just pour food until the bowl looks right. Which is how Max got to 87 pounds when he should have been 75.
I built this calculator because I needed it and the existing tools were either too simple ("feed 2 cups") or too clinical (medical jargon everywhere). I wanted something that felt like a friend explaining it over coffee, not a textbook.
That is it. No startup. No investors. No pitch deck. Just one guy, one overweight dog, and a spreadsheet that turned into a website.
Max is 76 pounds now, by the way. Still majestic. Just less... round.