Ah, got it! The main thing is that what you're doing works -- what surprises me so much with our cat is that so very, very little had any effect at all, even in the beginning, when the cats had more bone in their diet. (I wonder, too, if the very fact that you can quantify, so precisely, the amount of pumpkin also makes it sound like a lot to me, someone who doesn't weigh or measure ingredients unless absolutely necessary! )3% works out to 14 grams of pumpkin per 454 grams (1lb.) of the finished food. Considering that close to half of the food that he gets contains no pumpkin at all, he's really not getting much pumpkin. If I get him eating more of the homemade I'll reduce the pumpkin.