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Mshaas75

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So my new zero carb young again dry food will be here tomorrow and I am very excited about this.
Currently Paris will only eat cooked chicken and wet food is fancy feast gravy lovers chicken 22% carbs which I know is very bad. Once in a while she will grab some dry food from the other cats bowls purina one urinary tract formula.
Question -- is it ok to feed a complete zero carb diet?
 
So I just ran the numbers on the cat carb calculator for the fancy feast gravy lovers and it actually comes out to just under 14% carbs not the 22 the pdf. Doc shows. Still not good but not sure what is correct now
 

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Mshaas75 said:
Really how can they call it zero carb then!! I just paid a lot of money for it. Still better than the gravy lovers
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As long as it's under 10% carbs, it shouldn't affect your cat's BG negatively. A lot of people claim great success with it. I feed raw with a small amount of canned Weruva for my diabetic so I have no personal experience with it.
 
But to answer your original question, cats can survive on zero carbs. A couple of the raw proteins I feed are 0-1% carbs. Cats are obligate carnivores, so their metabolism is not designed to break down carbs other than the small amount they would eat if they digested a bird who digested some fruit in the wild, for example. However, some cats are carb sensitive, and do better with a little more carbs (still under 10%) versus very low carb. While some other cats can't have anything over 3% carbs without it raising their BG. Every cat is different, but generally speaking, under 10% is appropriate for a diabetic cat.
 
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But to answer your original question, cats can survive on zero carbs. A couple of the raw proteins I feed are 0-1% carbs. Cats are obligate carnivores, so their metabolism is not designed to break down carbs other than the small amount they would eat if they digested a bird who digested some fruit in the wild, for example. However, some cats are carb sensitive, and do better with a little more carbs (still under 10%) versus very low carb. While some other cats can't have anything over 3% carbs without it raising their BG. Every cat is different, but generally speaking, under 10% is appropriate for a diabetic cat.
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I have looked into the raw but I don't think I can handle that. I see a lot more people doing it though
 
Mshaas75 said:
I have looked into the raw but I don't think I can handle that. I see a lot more people doing it though
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I'm vegan so it's not a fun time for me but I wish I had switched years ago. The benefits have been great but some cats can't handle it or don't transition well to it.
 
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