The boy and I adopted a beautiful, 2 year old Lab/Bloodhound mix today! She’s mostly healthy except for being very skinny. She weighs about 50 pounds, and her ribs and spine are visible.

Of course we will get her to a vet early in the week. Until then, I’m wondering if there are any animal experts out there who can give us some advice about how much to feed her.

The bag of Science Diet (same food that was used at the shelter) says about 4 cups of food once a day. We fed her that much for dinner when we got her home from the shelter, and she ate it in less than a minute. We gave her another bowl about an hour later, and she scarfed that too.

We don’t want to over feed her or set up bad habits, but Miss Sadie is all skin and bones and clearly a hungry girl. Any advice would be great. Thanks!