Hi there and welcome,
from your links I see you use Zooplus, I also order all my supplies from them as here in Spain the local stores don't have anything that's suitable for a diabetic cat.
The Kattovit diabetes is about 13%DM
I'm not sure about the hills, but I think that's about 16%DM
Both better than the dry Royal Canin, but not great.
You want to aim for food that has less than 10% DM carbs.
Hills in particular, though expensive is not the best quality food, has maize starch listed as the 4 main ingredient and cellulose (wood chip basically) as 5th. and also rice flour added. These ingredients have no business in a cats diet, much less a diabetic cats.
Here's a link to a list of LC (under 10% DryMatter) it's a UK food list, but most are available from zooplus.
The ones I finally decided on were,
Granata Pet Symphonie (I use the chicken, in the list linked it gives you the carb values for the different varieties)
Ferringa chicken, squash and catnip
Thrive
Terra Faelis
I also tried
animonda exotic
kattovit sensitive
Granata pet delicatessen
Catz finefood
Check the food list I linked above for the carb values and suitable flavours.
The ones I finally decided on was based on the ingredients, quality of protein and the fact that they had low phosphorus, because George has early kidney problems (stage 2 Chronic Kidney Disease)
zooplus also do a supplement for raw
http://www.zooplus.ro/esearch.htm#q=felini
I haven't researched it since I don't feed a raw diet,
@suki & crystal (GA) have you heard of it/researched it?
You don't need to throw out the food you ordered, once bubulica starts to respond to Lantus, you will need to use higher carb food to bring his blood glucose up, when he experiences a drop into lower numbers, we do this to keep them safe.
It might be a good idea to get some High Carb (HC) food (even higher than the kattovit or Hills) for occasions when blood glucose is dropping too fast or too low.
I used
Purina Gourmet Gold. chicken and salmon, meat chunks in sauce that was about 30% DM carb, the pate seclections of Gourmet gold are not high in carbs, and the different flavours vary in carb content as well.
When starting out I found this website written by a vet, Dr Lisa Pierson, very useful, it's all about feline nutrition, and will perhaps help you understand what you are looking for in a feline diet. Also great info on a raw diet.
http://catinfo.org/
Try not to worry about not seeing much movement initially in the numbers, with George it took about 8-10 weeks before we started seeing significant movement, have a look at his spread sheet linked in my signature, we got up to 3.5u BID (twice a day), then he started healing and he eventually went into remission, which he is still enjoying.
One little tip, I would suggest is that you try and start by getting one test in each cycle, I see you've been doing great at getting that test before you head to bed, but if you can manage to get one in the am cycle it will give you a better idea if he is staying high all the time, or if he is indeed sometimes dipping lower in the day.
We are here to help, so keep asking questions, if you need any more help with the food, or questions about it, feel free to tag me by writing
@Gill & George
Hi. Many thanks for the information. Now I read your post and I feel better seeing that there are people who want to help and they are really involves. I'll reread a little later your post to decide what to buy. Unfortunately here in my town I find just some diabetic dry food and some diabetic wet food bags from Royal Canin . Nothing else . The vet tells me he can order for me, but I do not see the difference. He probably sell them to me more expensive.
, Hi , Bubu-chiri, what a beautiful name 