Diabetes/CKD diet

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1 have 3 cats. Orion is my 9 year old diabetic. Triton is my 15 year old stage 2 CKD. Atlas is my 2 year old with no medical issues. I would LOVE to be able to feed one food that is suited for all. I have been driving myself crazy all evening reading nutrition info, and I think I found a food that is both low in carb and phosphorus. Would someone please tell me if I am correct in this with Tiki? Would this be an appropriate food for all my boys? Any concerns with this brand?
http://www.tikipets.com
 
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I never fed it. Looking at the charts, some of the flavours are higher in phosphorus than I'd like to see for a CKD cat. Are you using a phosphorus binder?
 
Here's a chart on Tanya's site for CKD cats that has them broken down by phosphorus and carbs

Looks like most of the Tikicat foods are both low phos and low carb

If you hit CTRL + F a box will pop up that you can put "Tiki Cat" into that will help find those foods in the chart
 
I'm seeing different phosphorus numbers on Tanya's site than on the Tiki site. Tanya's site starts the lowest Tiki food about 0.8 which is a bit higher than I'd like. The Tiki site shows 0.2 for many. This is a big difference. Am I missing something?

Chris & China said:
Here's a chart on Tanya's site for CKD cats that has them broken down by phosphorus and carbs

Looks like most of the Tikicat foods are both low phos and low carb

If you hit CTRL + F a box will pop up that you can put "Tiki Cat" into that will help find those foods in the chart
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The difference you're seeing is that phosphorus for CKD cats has to be calculated on a dry matter basis. The Tiki site shows it on an 'as-fed' basis. So if it shows 0.2% phosphorus, but the food is 80% moisture then the phosphorus dry matter is actually 0.2% of the 20% dry matter in the food, which actually gives you a dry matter phosphorus of 1%.
 
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