Would you please provide us with some more information and put this in your user control panel? It helps us to help you better. This will take about 5 minutes of your time.
Think of this as having some very useful information at our finger tips for those that are replying to your posts. One reason we like to see this information in your signature is because if there is ever an emergency situation like a possible hypoglycemic episode, we don’t have to ask a lot of questions like what meter you are using to give you the best advice. Doing this signature update is totally optional, but it does help us to help you better.
If you are willing to do this, would you please do those updates when you get a chance? Thanks.
Go to the upper left corner of your screen and click on the words, User Control Panel
On the next screen, a row of tabs is presented. Select the Profile tab
On the next screen, there are a number of choices along the left hand side. Select Edit Profile.
Go down to the location field and enter your country, state/province, and city if you are willing to share that info.
Click on submit to save this change.
Still in the User Control Panel, Profile tab, this time select Edit Signature from the left hand list of options.
A free form text box appears.
We like to see information like your name, your cats name age and sex, the diagnosis date for the diabetes like this (DX 4/30/13), what meter you are using for testing, what insulin you are using , what you are feeding (wet or dry, what brands/style of food), any complicating health issues your cat may have, any additional medications your cat is receiving. If you are using a pet specific meter like an Alphatrak or Ipet, please change the font size on that text from Normal to
Large (using the drop down arrow list in the middle of the editing commands)
Click on submit to save this information. Now, this will appear at the end of every post you make. You can update the info when you need to.
There is an additional document you can create to provide even more information about your cat. This is also optional to create this google document and link it into your signature. The profile is in addition to the synopsis info in your signature. See this link on the how to's of profile creation.
http://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=79123
Friskies Chicken Dinner is fine (approx. 10% carbs), but probably not as good as Wellness. I feed my cats that because it's financially more doable than specialty brands. All Friskies that say Paté are relatively safe (5-10%), as long as there is no mention of gravy (careful, there is a chicken flavour with the "in gravy" written in tiny to the right). I keep the Turkey/Cheese in gravy for emergencies only. As for the Whiskas trays, I had calculated once that the carbs content for the chicken dinner and beef dinner was about 25% (although not based on as-fed info, only the info provided by the company), so not good at all. I bought it on sale for the same price as Friskies, so I just feed the trays to my two other non-diabetic cats as a treat, but would never feed them to my diabetic cat.