Pet Tools and Calculators
Eleven free tools for dog and cat owners: age, weight, calories, food, pregnancy, chocolate toxicity and symptoms. Each one shows its formula and names its sources.
- Built on AAHA guidelines, the Merck Veterinary Manual and VCA criteria
- Results as ranges, with the method explained
- No sign-up, nothing sent to us
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Method
How we build our calculators
Each tool starts from a published veterinary source, not from a rule of thumb copied between websites. Where sources disagree we show a range. Where no accepted method exists, for example human-year equivalents for hamsters, we say so and label our estimate as an estimate. The formulas are written out on every page so you can check them.
Examples: calories use the AAHA 2021 energy requirement table; chocolate toxicity uses the Merck Veterinary Manual thresholds of 20, 40 to 50 and 60 mg/kg; due dates use the Merck gestation ranges; the symptom checker follows VCA emergency and urgent-care criteria.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
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