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Dog water intake calculator

Healthy dogs need a predictable volume of drinking water every day, and the first number veterinarians, shelters, and owners reach for is body weight in kilograms scaled by how hard the animal is working.

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This dog water intake calculator takes a strictly positive body weight and an activity factor, multiplies them by the widely taught maintenance rate of sixty millilitres per kilogram per day, and returns the recommended intake in millilitres per day. A zero, negative, or non-finite weight fails with invalid_input and is not billed. The free browser widget and the API share one pure module, so a kennel spreadsheet and an automation job never disagree on the same dog. Treat the result as a planning estimate for bowls, bottles, and boarding checklists, not as a diagnosis that replaces a veterinarian who can examine urine, appetite, and heat stress.

How to use it

Enter your values in the form above. The tool checks them before calculating and shows the result on the same page.

Check your inputs

Use the labels and units shown next to each field. If something is missing or outside the allowed range, the page points to the field to fix.

Use it again or automate it

Use the browser tool for individual checks and the API when you need the same capability in an automated workflow.

What you can do with it

Get an answer now

Enter one set of values and see the result without building a spreadsheet or script.

Compare scenarios

Change one value at a time and rerun the calculation to understand what affects the result.

Automate repeated work

Use the API when the same calculation needs to run inside your product or workflow.

FAQ

How do I calculate how much water my dog should drink each day?

Send a positive body weight in kilograms and an optional activity factor. The API returns intake_ml as sixty millilitres per kilogram per day times the factor. Omit the factor to use maintenance at one.

What activity factor should I use?

Use 1 for rest or typical indoor life, about 1.2 to 1.5 for moderate play and outdoor time, and 2 or more for sporting, heat, or heavy work. The calculator rejects factors above 5.

What happens if weight is zero or negative?

The task fails with invalid_input. Weight must be a finite positive number in kilograms; a missing, zero, negative, or non-numeric value is rejected and is not billed.

Is sixty millilitres per kilogram a veterinary diagnosis?

No. It is a widely taught adult-dog maintenance teaching rate. Illness, diet moisture, climate, and lactation change real drinking. Pair the number with observed intake and a veterinarian when something looks off.

What does the dog water intake calculator cost?

The browser tool is free. API requests use prepaid KIT balance at $0.002 per successful call; invalid input is not billed.

For developers — API access

Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.

API endpoint

POSThttps://api.kit.forhosting.com/bio/dog-water-intake

Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.

Call it from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/bio/dog-water-intake \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"weight":10}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/bio/dog-water-intake", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "weight": 10
  })
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/bio/dog-water-intake",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "weight": 10
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]

<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/bio/dog-water-intake", false, stream_context_create([
  "http" => [
    "method"  => "POST",
    "header"  => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
    "content" => '{"weight":10}',
  ],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);

body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"weight":10}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/bio/dog-water-intake", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Example request

{
  "weight": 10
}

Example response

{
  "task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "bio.dog_water_intake",
  "status": "queued",
  "_links": {
    "result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
  }
}

The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.

Pricing

Per request$0.002

Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.

Errors

HTTP	Code	Meaning
`401`	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid API key.
`402`	`insufficient_balance`	Your balance doesn't cover the task price.
`404`	`unknown_type`	That task type doesn't exist.
`429`	`rate_limited`	Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling.

Read the full KIT documentation →