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Laura13

Laura13

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I went and bought some more insulin yesterday and saw our vet while I was there. I told her we were now testing Rupert twice a day and changed the units we give him, starting low and slowly increasing. She seemed pleased with the results we have been getting. Looking at our spreadsheet the recent shots have all been yellow which I'm liking.

Problem now is that I think Rupert is getting bored of his food. He has Fancy Feast Chicken and Giblet Pate and is now taking his time to eat instead of wolfing it down like he used to. He's more concerned about what Sophie (our other cat) is eating and doesn't even want a treat after testing him anymore. As far as I know there aren't any other Fancy Feast flavours that he could eat (Sophie has FF and they are mostly gravy types). He hasn't gone off food, he still wants to eat, just not what I'm offering him. This happened when he was eating Hills m/d as well, gets through it eventually just takes his time!

Is there any other food he can eat? I'm in Australia.
 
Part of it may be that as glucose control is achieved, your cat is able to use the food being given and thus is less hungry. This is a good thing. If he's eating about 1/4 (indoor, not very active) to 1/2 (moderate to very active) ounce per pound (or 2.2 kg) am and pm, he's probably OK.

A digital scale to weigh him weekly will give you data on how his weight is doing. As needed, you increase or decrease food to maintain a healthy weight.

Any of the Fancy Feast Classic pates are OK.
 
Hi Laura,

You may be interested in the following post from Grace ('Grace and Angie') who is also in Oz.
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=64843#p967112

She suggests some other suitable foods (and I think she also says that some Fancy Feast contains grain in the Aussie versions...).

Lovely to hear that Rupert is doing well. :smile:

Eliz
 
Thank you Eliz! I am so happy to find a tiny bit of information from another Australian :) We currently feed Sophie raw cat food from the supermarket so I'm glad she said that's ok too, I'll give Rupert some every now and then. Glad I've got these other options now :)
 
Avoid carbs, such as
Fruits
Beans & peas, including soybeans
Starchy tubers: carrots, beets, parsnips, rutabaga, etc
Grains: wheat, rice, corn, millet, rye, hominy, etc

Note that the percent of calories from carbohydrates is what you want to minimize first. Then, higher protein calories, than fat calories, if possible.

Here are a couple of online calculators which may be helpful:
http://www.scheyderweb.com/cats/catfood.html
http://fnae.org/carbcalorie.html
 
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