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PawCurve

Pet calculators that show their working

Most pet calculators are one line of arithmetic behind a nice button. We went to the raw veterinary data — 8.5 million weight records — recomputed the growth curves ourselves, then tested the predictions against what those dogs actually grew into. Then we published the error bars.

Weight records used
8.5M
Dogs in the source data
3.5M
Held-out accuracy test
64K dogs
Our stated range holds
79.9%

Calculators

Every tool here had to clear the same bar: source it properly, or don't ship it. The feeding calculators took the longest — the "standard" formula turns out to trace to a textbook, not a guideline, and we weren't going to repeat that without saying so on the page. We'd rather ship a few that are genuinely the best on the web than ten that run the same unsourced formula as everyone else.

Guides

Why trust a number from a website?

You shouldn't, on faith. So we made it checkable instead.

The data is public

Salt et al. (2017), PLoS ONE, released CC BY 4.0. Anyone can download it and check us.

The method is written out

Including where we depart from the published paper, and why — plus the checks that didn't go our way.

The accuracy is measured

On 63,993 dogs held out of the fitting. Not a claim — a test.

We also don't carry a "vet reviewed" badge, because we haven't earned one. Here's why that matters.