does Fancy Feast or others have a low carb DRY food?

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Chris S

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We have 9 in the house so removing dry completely may be challenging. In the interim, we have DM dry and would like to move to something better.

I am going to order small bag of Dr Elsey's chicken but I have a lot of picky (yet chunky) furry kids. They are eating the dm but again, would like to find something better.

The food charts exclude dry.

is there any dry from an easier to obtain source like fancy feast? thanks
 
Chris S said:
Hi
We have 9 in the house so removing dry completely may be challenging. In the interim, we have DM dry and would like to move to something better.

I am going to order small bag of Dr Elsey's chicken but I have a lot of picky (yet chunky) furry kids. They are eating the dm but again, would like to find something better.

The food charts exclude dry.

is there any dry from an easier to obtain source like fancy feast? thanks
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The only low carb dry I know of is Dr Elsey's and they will send you a sample also
 
Chris S said:
Hi
We have 9 in the house so removing dry completely may be challenging. In the interim, we have DM dry and would like to move to something better.

I am going to order small bag of Dr Elsey's chicken but I have a lot of picky (yet chunky) furry kids. They are eating the dm but again, would like to find something better.

The food charts exclude dry.

is there any dry from an easier to obtain source like fancy feast? thanks
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Hi there! I have a picky sugar cat. I love young again zero mature because is low on phosphorous as well as carbs, the only draw back is that she can get diarrhea. So I’ve found that if I do 3 parts of young again zero and one part of wisong epigen 90 starch free she has perfect #2. She has refused to eat fancy feast pate so the only way I can get her to eat it is if sleep with her in my room with the door closed. During the day she gets dry, (while I’m at work) and at night she gets wet. She has been on remisión (touch on wood) for a good year. Hope this helps!
 
Quick answer on the dry food charts. NO, on the dry food charts being available.

Dry food has more calories. So if you have picky yet chunky fur kids, taking them off the dry food can help them lose weight.
Losing weight is better overall, so you don't have more fur kids that develop diabetes or other health issues due to being overweight.

I used this document to get my DFAA (Dry Food Addicts Anonymous) cat off the dry food. https://catinfo.org/docs/TipsForTransitioning1-14-11.pdf

Wasn't quick. Took a lot of persistence on my part.

You'll undoubtedly need to take your 9 cats off a free feeding schedule and change them to meal feeding. You'll be using their natural hunger instincts to get them used to food being unavailable all the time. Let them eat for 30 minutes or so. Take the food away.

Then, when your cats are used to meal feeding as opposed to free feeding, then you try to introduce more lower carb canned foods. There will probably be 1 or 2 that are more resistance to canned food. With 9, it's going to be harder to get all on canned food at the same time.

Not sure what your work/life/responsibilities are like. So you have to find a couple of times a day where you can meal feed instead of free feed. 2 of my cats were like "What took you so long to feed us the yummy canned food instead of this dry stuff. This is so much better. Keep it coming mom."

Be aware that many cats get really stinky, clear the house stinky poops on the Young Again foods. Also reports of digestive upsets and vomiting. Plus, it's only available by mail order and is really expensive. 4 pounds is $32. https://www.youngagainpetfood.com/zero-mature-health.html

Epigen 90 is $25 for 5 pounds at Petsmart and Amazon.

How many pounds of dry food do your 9 cats go through in a week?
 
Thankfully our house -all 9 eat wet food. They just also all eat a little dry as well lol.
We buy a 10 lb bag and that lasts about a week and a half. We have two bowls for 9. We fill about 1/2 cup in each -twice a day. So 2 cups a day for 9 cats across 24 hours. We have gotten them used to bowls being empty etc. so I kind of feel we are on our way to no dry but the husband says with our somewhat Eratic work schedules and my mom (bless her) who comes to help sometimes (her schedule too can be a little off ) that we should have a little food for them to eat as needed.

we used to have 6 (yes six!!) bowls down. It’s no wonder that some of our cats were the size of dogs. So over the last 3 years we have done a lot with food adjustments. Just not enough until now.
 
Currently we are using the Purina dm dry but I’d like to get something even better if they will eat it -if we are keeping any dry out in the long haul
 
There have been a couple of people here that I have been helping. Eliminated the dry food and higher carb wet food and cat is getting better BG numbers.

@Patty & Teal'c using Prozinc, recently switched to using Friskies pate style foods for her diabetic cat. Teal'c is getting better BG levels now.
@hailey & oscar also using Prozinc. She had been mixing some higher 12% carbs foods into his diet. She stopped that. Oscar kept going down the dosing scale to 1 drop of insulin and then she tried an OTJ trial. Success for Oscar and Hailey and he just went OTJ a few days ago.

OTJ = off-the-juice, insulin being the juice. Also know as diet controlled status or being in remission.

They used different insulin, but the concepts are the same across the various insulins. Like the lantus you are using.
 
Ok thank you. I am very interested to get there (no dry) or extremely limited dry. And oh the dream to be OTJ... I know this is less than 30 days for diagnosis of Harley and days for Winston but I’m trying to take it all in and one day at a time. Just keep swimming :). There’s hope!
 
With Teal'c I did get him Dr Elsey's dry chicken because I didn't think he would eat wet food. I wanted a dry food that was reportedly low carb and I could leave out for him to graze on.

Teal'c's BG always seemed to be in the 400 to 500 and above range. Couldn't get it to come down. We would increase his insulin and it didn't seem to make much of a difference. It wasn't until I stopped giving him any dry and only fed wet that we have finally started seeing better numbers. He isn't regulated yet but we are now getting closer to regulation.
 
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