Food: Evo or Wellness Core

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My vet says we can do either one... any opinions?


4 Cats, 1 diabetic. Dry is a necessity with the wet so going with lowest carb for my other cats and the diabetic who picks at it now and then..

Wellness:
- Available at Petco
- Low Carb, Low Calorie
- 45% Protein


Evo:
- At a smaller pet store, out of the way but doable
- Lower Carb than wellness but higher calorie
- Heard it can be a bit rich
- 50% protien

Thoughts? Experiences? Carb contents of these two? Thanks
 
I use Evo but I just give them one piece of kibble with their Fancy Feast at each meal. Yes, just ONE kibble :-D . The only reason I give it to them is I feel it simulates the bone/fur in wild food, it minimizes their hair balls, and it keeps them regular. No impact on Dusty's BG reading that I've been able to detect.
 
You need to calculate % calories, not % weight, from each of protein, fat, and carbohydrate, using the following:
3.5 calories / gram Protein
8.5 calories / gram Fat
3.5 calories / gram Carbohydrate

ex if 45% by weight is protein, then
100 grams of food has
45 grams of protein * 3.5 calories/gram
__ grams of fat * 8.5 calories/gram
__ grams of carbohydrate * 3.5 calories/gram

You get an estimate of grams of carbohydrate by subtracting everything else from 100.
 
Have you asked the cats?

I tried both of these on my kitty-crack addicted sugar-foster and she wouldn't eat either one. In fact, when offered these options versus hydrated canned food - she amazingly picked the canned food so I snatched up that dry food for good and she never looked back. In fact, her furever home has prescription DM down but she won't go near it.

You might want to ask them.
 
I feed the wet Wellness & EVO, but we do keep some EVO dry on hand--it's higher carb than Young Again dry kibble, so I use it sparingly when Heff's BG is lower and I wont be home to test him. It does spike his BG more than Young Again.

My cats wouldn't eat the Wellness CORE and they aren't fond of the EVO--well all except my diabetic cat who will eat everything & anything.
 
Wellness CORE dry is not that low in carbs. Look at my foster Cecil's chart. One of the biggest changes we made when we brought him into foster is to stop feeding him the dry as the shelter was giving him both wet and dry CORE because they were having trouble with him not eating sometimes. He dropped 100 points over night the first night (which is what reinforced in my mind that the dry had to go). He bounced a few times off of those new lows, but did amazingly well after removing the dry.

EVO is what we keep in the house for the hard food addicts and I've let my diabetics in remission around. While trying to get them into remission they just don't get dry, IMO it defeats the process. When Smokey went out of remission, she was allowed to get into the EVO once in a while as remission was not likely for her again with a mass on her pancreas.

We have 8 cats in the house right now with the 2 diabetic fosters (1 OTJ, 1 just starting insulin). If I didn't have 2 hard food holdouts in the house I wouldn't have it in the house. We just keep the hard food in the bedroom and keep that door closed, letting the hard food eaters in and out of there when they need to eat.
 
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