carb help
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Julia & Bandit (GA)
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Friskies pate are ok to feed, but they do contain some rice so their carb content is a bit higher than Fancy Feast. Most are still ok for a diabetic, around 8-9% carbs, not 3%. Avoid the Mixed Grill, as that's 11% carbs.
The generic Friskies alternatives (like the Special Kitty pate from Walmart, or the one from Petsmart), are actually lower in carbs than Friskies because they don't include rice in their formulas.
Have you seen Dr. Lisa's canned food chart? It has many commercial foods broken down into their Protein/Fat/Carb percentages for you already. Often times when you call the pet food companies, they may not give you the correct figures you're looking for unless you're very specific about what you ask for (the total as-fed analysis per flavor). And if you do get the right values, you still need to break that down into % per 100 calories.
The generic Friskies alternatives (like the Special Kitty pate from Walmart, or the one from Petsmart), are actually lower in carbs than Friskies because they don't include rice in their formulas.
Have you seen Dr. Lisa's canned food chart? It has many commercial foods broken down into their Protein/Fat/Carb percentages for you already. Often times when you call the pet food companies, they may not give you the correct figures you're looking for unless you're very specific about what you ask for (the total as-fed analysis per flavor). And if you do get the right values, you still need to break that down into % per 100 calories.
Blamethecats and Hannah
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ja9390
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Friskies is still fine. They're between 6-8%. I feed all except the mixed grill pates. Fancy Feast is much too expensive for me to afford to feed two cats, each of whom will easily go through at least three of those tiny cans per day.
Special Kitty is great. All of the pates are pretty much between 3-4% carbs and are all dirt cheap. Mine never became fans of 9Lives and to be honest the food looks really weird in that can so I don't fight them on it.
Special Kitty is great. All of the pates are pretty much between 3-4% carbs and are all dirt cheap. Mine never became fans of 9Lives and to be honest the food looks really weird in that can so I don't fight them on it.
ja9390
Member Since 2016
There are bad reviews about friskies and fancy feast too. People will generally assume that just because it's cheap and it comes off a Walmart shelf, and that just because they don't know how to interpret a list of ingredients and it has some big scary words in it, that it's bad for the cat. When in reality, I was paying $50 a bag for premium dry food for my cats and one of them got diabetes, the other got fat. The huge $0.70 cans of wet food from walmart are much better than even a $100 bag of dry, even if people want to act all weird about it. The only issues I've had with food has been with 9Lives. Just earlier this week I had run out of their usual Friskies/ SK assortment but had some 9Lives which I gave to them that night until I could go to the store the next day. Well my non-diabetic puked and had diarrhea absolutely everywhere off and on for about 8 hours. Then it abruptly cleared up and he's fine now. Since he wasn't sick for longer than that, I attributed it to an upset stomach from the 9Lives. It was very strange. The only thing that changed was the brand of food he ate the night before and that morning.
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