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Stephanie Montgomery

Stephanie Montgomery

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Hi, switching to canned food. All my cats love it (previous food before this happened is Blue Buffalo dry) but I am doing it mainly because my boy Tobey was recently diagnosed. He's not overweight, was on steroids for about 6 weeks, and is about to be 12 y.o.

Need food advice since I'm switching all of them at same time so we don't have any dry food for Tobey to access. Suggestions on what she the best? 4 cats in all.

Thanks!
Stephanie
 
Steroids are what pushed Squeaker into diabetes as well. Most of us find that Little Friskies Classic Pate except Mixed Grill and Fancy Feast Classics are inexpensive options. On the pricey side, Weruva was our favorite.
 
I know this topic is asking about canned food, but I don't think there is a canned food that's low carb, high protein, extra healthy, and also inexpensive all in one. Inexpensive canned foods are typically higher in fat than protein because protein is expensive.

Probably the only way to get all that criteria met is to do some of the homemade recipes, either cooked or raw, using conventional chicken legs/thighs, eggs, and chicken liver, along with the necessary supplements(vitamin B complex, vitamin E, taurine, iodine salt, eggshell calcium or bone meal): http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood

That way you can also avoid all the questionable ingredients that are found even in many expensive brands like sunflower oil, guar gum, carrageenan, synthetic vitamin K, etc.

I've been using Friskies Classic pate (Mixed Grill, Country Style Dinner, and Poultry Platter, but I may quit the Poultry Platter as I found it's higher in phosphorus than the other two) because they are cheap, low carb, free of fish, corn, soy, wheat, and many of the brands that cost four times as much still include some of those problematic ingredients anyway. I've also tried Weruva recently for the low phosphorus, and my cat likes it, but it's certainly not inexpensive at $1.85 for a 5.5 oz can.
 
Any suggestions when I have 3 other cats that aren't diabetic and I work all day while they're gone. Used to free feeding and they're on dry blue buffalo. They like canned but it's too much money and time to use fancy feast. I want bigger cans of food than that...and I can just try to pour them on a couple plates I guess? Need suggestions. Thanks!
DavidS said:
I know this topic is asking about canned food, but I don't think there is a canned food that's low carb, high protein, extra healthy, and also inexpensive all in one. Inexpensive canned foods are typically higher in fat than protein because protein is expensive.

Probably the only way to get all that criteria met is to do some of the homemade recipes, either cooked or raw, using conventional chicken legs/thighs, eggs, and chicken liver, along with the necessary supplements(vitamin B complex, vitamin E, taurine, iodine salt, eggshell calcium or bone meal): http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood

That way you can also avoid all the questionable ingredients that are found even in many expensive brands like sunflower oil, guar gum, carrageenan, synthetic vitamin K, etc.

I've been using Friskies Classic pate (Mixed Grill, Country Style Dinner, and Poultry Platter, but I may quit the Poultry Platter as I found it's higher in phosphorus than the other two) because they are cheap, low carb, free of fish, corn, soy, wheat, and many of the brands that cost four times as much still include some of those problematic ingredients anyway. I've also tried Weruva recently for the low phosphorus, and my cat likes it, but it's certainly not inexpensive at $1.85 for a 5.5 oz can.
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Stephanie Montgomery said:
Any suggestions when I have 3 other cats that aren't diabetic and I work all day while they're gone. Used to free feeding and they're on dry blue buffalo. They like canned but it's too much money and time to use fancy feast. I want bigger cans of food than that...and I can just try to pour them on a couple plates I guess? Need suggestions. Thanks!
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I wish I had time for making food. Going to have to find a solution to multiple cat household and that I work gone 11 hours a 5 days a week.
 
Automatic feeder comes to mind. Not sure how it would work if your kitties steal each other's. 2 of mine won't eat Smokey food so the feeder works for us.
 
When we switched from free feeding kibble to all wet canned I started by experimenting and trying to find what Radar would eat because the best food for my cat is what he will eat. I found the food list compiled by Dr. Pierson to be a great place to begin my search because it tells you what the content of the food is in percentages of carbs, fat and protein as well as phosphorous content and calories. Go to this website http://catinfo.org/?link=cannedfoods for lots of great information that may help you. Here is a link to the list. Be patient with the kitties while you are searching for what they like. It took months for us to work out what Radar loved and what was on the "icky" list.
 
Jan Radar said:
When we switched from free feeding kibble to all wet canned I started by experimenting and trying to find what Radar would eat because the best food for my cat is what he will eat. I found the food list compiled by Dr. Pierson to be a great place to begin my search because it tells you what the content of the food is in percentages of carbs, fat and protein as well as phosphorous content and calories. Go to this website http://catinfo.org/?link=cannedfoods for lots of great information that may help you. Here is a link to the list. Be patient with the kitties while you are searching for what they like. It took months for us to work out what Radar loved and what was on the "icky" list.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
 
Jan Radar said:
When we switched from free feeding kibble to all wet canned I started by experimenting and trying to find what Radar would eat because the best food for my cat is what he will eat. I found the food list compiled by Dr. Pierson to be a great place to begin my search because it tells you what the content of the food is in percentages of carbs, fat and protein as well as phosphorous content and calories. Go to this website http://catinfo.org/?link=cannedfoods for lots of great information that may help you. Here is a link to the list. Be patient with the kitties while you are searching for what they like. It took months for us to work out what Radar loved and what was on the "icky" list.
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How much do you spend on Tiki cat?
 
I've just looked through some of the Dave's cat food flavors. Some of them contain sweet potatoes and squash, which are carbs that you don't need. However I found these two flavors of Dave's that don't have any high-carb ingredients. They do contain guar gum and carrageenan, but they still seem better than most other commercial foods:

Dave's healthy grain free turkey and giblets: https://www.chewy.com/daves-pet-food-naturally-healthy/dp/51682
Dave's healthy grain free beef and chicken dinner
https://www.chewy.com/daves-pet-food-naturally-healthy/dp/51683
 
DavidS said:
I've just looked through some of the Dave's cat food flavors. Some of them contain sweet potatoes and squash, which are carbs that you don't need. However I found these two flavors of Dave's that don't have any high-carb ingredients:

Dave's healthy grain free turkey and giblets: https://www.chewy.com/daves-pet-food-naturally-healthy/dp/51682
Dave's healthy grain free beef and chicken dinner
https://www.chewy.com/daves-pet-food-naturally-healthy/dp/51683
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Thanks, I'll look into those. Also I just found Tiki cat. Looks like a really good choice! I am going to order it.
 
Hm, The Tiki Cat sure is expensive, considering the cans are about the same size as Fancy Feast cans.
And if you decide to order from chewy here is a coupon code to get $15 off of $49+ (new customers only)
LP2C4WWV
 
I actually saved 20% on my order for autoship. So it was about the same savings. I'm gonna try this food. I can give my other cats something different more affordable canned food in the evening time when I'm home.
 
I have 2 fussy boogars-
1 with FD and 1 wit CKD
both get low carb wet--
fancy feast
NV pride
Pinnacle
Daves
Ziwi peak
Max cat Only a few LC
tiki
sheba
a million kinds of freeze dried
chewys is great customer service--if they do not like it they will pick it up and refund you with no issues-
 
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