Least harmful dry food for non-diabetic Monty

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monty_dweezil (GA)

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Yes, me again, asking this question.

Monty LOVES his dry food and only really eats his wet food twice a day as a small snack. Otherwise he is a grazer but doesn't gorge. He weighs 11 pounds and has for about the last 5 years (he's 9.5 years old).

So here in Australia we simply just cannot get the low carb dry food I see mentioned here.

These Wellness Core options seem to be about the best I think. I hate seeing any grain or rice or peas...WHY DO EVEN THE SUPPOSED BETTER COMPANIES PUT PEAS IN THEIR CAT FOOD!? One even has GREEN TEA in there for goodness sake!

Anyway, can someone help me with the analysis formula for dry food? The second one seems better but they didn't have that one in the pet store. Sigh.

Thank you!

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This is what we USED to feed both furbabies before the diabetes happened, along with Fancy Feast wet food (not always the classics though, back then. Mainly the florentine ones).

Annoyingly, there's no analysis but the second, third and fourth ingredients are bad!!.

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One more - Dweezy (and Monty) used to have the Royal Canin diabetic dry food (I know, no good. Dwee had low carb wet food once we knew this).

This one seems to have more bad than good! Again, I can't find an analysis. Grr.

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I feed some of my kibble addicts the Wellness Core Original. I don’t know the carb numbers, but it’s a pretty good food. Problem is that they have decided they don’t like it anymore.....:banghead:
 
Up until Candi was diagnosed we was feeding her the dry food brand Nulo with some Canned Food. The only one ingredient it does have that is Carbs is Sweet Potatoes. Which now we give her only the canned food and she loves it but it took her some getting used to because she loved her kibble. You can check it out if you like. http://nulo.com/cat/
 
Thank you all. I think the Wellness one is the least worst option at this point. We just don't have the Dr Elseys and other really low ones here and no one will post to Australia.
 
The Wellness site lets you change the country, so I changed it to Australia to get an idea of the ingredients for these 2 dry foods. Yes, the ingredients are quite different in Australia than they are in the US.

I used the Scheyderweb carb calculator. Using guaranteed analysis doesn't give you as accurate information on the food as having as fed values, but it least it gives you an idea of the different percentages.

So, 29% carbs for the first one (Salmon, Salmon Meal, Deboned Turkey). The Wellness Core Grain-free Original has better ingredients at the beginning of the list. Carbs around 26% and it doesn't have the high Ash content of the Salmon food. Not a big difference in carb content, but you need to look at more than that anyway. If it were my dry-food addict cat, I'd go with the Wellness Grain Free food.

Have you tried crumbling a few of the dried food pieces and sprinkling them on top of the wet food for Monty? Or the 'chip and dip' method, where you take a piece of dry food and dip it in a little bit of the wet food. Those were 2 of the methods I used to get my dry food addict Wink switched over from dry to wet food. Just trying to think of ways to see if Monty would eat a bit more wet food for you. Realize that you only have non-diabetic Monty right now.

It must be hard to get Monty to eat now that Dweezil isn't there to keep him company.
 
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