5/5 Jackson AMPS 477 +3 351 PMPS 470 +2 425 +4 347 +6 334 +9 250

Skye & Jackson

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Real high this morning. Maybe he’s gonna come down finally? I sure hope so.

I wasn’t talking about doing a sliding scale, but more just alternating two doses… I know it’s not ideal. And I haven’t done it, as yet. Just… thinking. The input and thoughts are appreciated.

The food would make some sense - if he’d eat it. All his favorite flavors of Fancy Feast so far are around 0-2% carbs - ie, fish. (Plus most of the Tiki Cat is lower phosphorus - though not all flavors - so I’ve been trying to keep that as about half his wet diet, and those are all zero carb.) He won’t even touch anything chicken, and beef is iffy. Any food that’s grilled, shredded, or otherwise has gravy is too high carb for him to eat regularly, those are what I use to actually bring him up from a low. He would happily just eat more of his 5% YA kibble, but I’ve been having to limit how much I have out at a time for the other kitty currently living in my room (Jerry), who has a really touchy tummy. (He loves it too, and tends to overeat himself into diarrhea.)

Looking at Friskies now on the chart, that has some possibility. I’m not used to thinking of that as a healthy food because it’s cheaper, lol, it’s what we feed the other cats and even outdoor ones, but it looks like the pates are 5-6% carbs, which is probably about what he needs. And they do have some fish flavors. May be worth a try.
 
https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/thr...-404-9-398-pmps-407-2-395-6-355-8-300.277182/

Real high this morning. Maybe he’s gonna come down finally? I sure hope so.

I wasn’t talking about doing a sliding scale, but more just alternating two doses… I know it’s not ideal. And I haven’t done it, as yet. Just… thinking. The input and thoughts are appreciated.

The food would make some sense - if he’d eat it. All his favorite flavors of Fancy Feast so far are around 0-2% carbs - ie, fish. (Plus most of the Tiki Cat is lower phosphorus - though not all flavors - so I’ve been trying to keep that as about half his wet diet, and those are all zero carb.) He won’t even touch anything chicken, and beef is iffy. Any food that’s grilled, shredded, or otherwise has gravy is too high carb for him to eat regularly, those are what I use to actually bring him up from a low. He would happily just eat more of his 5% YA kibble, but I’ve been having to limit how much I have out at a time for the other kitty currently living in my room (Jerry), who has a really touchy tummy. (He loves it too, and tends to overeat himself into diarrhea.)

Looking at Friskies now on the chart, that has some possibility. I’m not used to thinking of that as a healthy food because it’s cheaper, lol, it’s what we feed the other cats and even outdoor ones, but it looks like the pates are 5-6% carbs, which is probably about what he needs. And they do have some fish flavors. May be worth a try.

The Friskies Mixed Grill is higher. They also make pate with gravy, it's about 12 to 15%
 
Ugh on the AMPS. :arghh: Bit of it going around today - I blame the full moon.

I saw the suggestion yesterday of doing 1.75 units and a slightly higher carbs. Maybe something in the 6-8% range? Sounds like it's worth the experiment. Some cats do better with slightly higher carbs.

No chicken or beef is a hard one. That does leave turkey and seafood (which isn't great as a steady diet), or some of the less common ones like duck, lamb, rabbit, venison.
 
He does eat a lot of seafood flavors. I’ve gotten around the “steady diet” problem so far with the addition of the YA, which is chicken and pork - he likes that. Up to this point, the canned food had been mostly seafood with some turkey. Go figure… he hates chicken (unless it’s shared from your own plate, somehow that’s different) but will eat turkey… cat. Lol.
 
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