Food Question: Going Out Of Town

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dsmithkma

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Hope everyone is doing well.

My wife and I are going out of town for a week next month. We have been feeding our diabetic cat (now in remission, diet controlled), and our other civvies all wet food 2x per day.

We have a friend who can feed them in the evenings but no one in the mornings.

What about our friend feeding them canned in the evenings and also leaving out some low carb dry, say Young Again's Zero Carb or 50/22?
 
er ... How about using a refrigerated/frozen heavy ceramic container and leaving a frozen meal in it? Maybe test that to see how long it stays chilled?

Or maybe find another person to do the other feeding, plus socialize with the cats some?
 
Buy a timed feeder? I wouldnt change the type of food - remission is such a tentative thing you dont want to mess with it.
 
I have the same problem. I am having to pay extra for a second visit but for me it is worth it. If your cats are off dry food then keep them off it. Mine was a long hard transition off dry to raw and canned food and I don't ever want to repeat it. Not all cats like Young Again dry food. I agree with BJM, providing a frozen option is way better than enticing your cat with dry food and then coming home and pulling it away. Sometimes my civvies look at the frozen cicle and ignore it - except when they are desperate, they will find a way to eat. After the research I did on proper feline nutrition and how bad dry food is - ANY dry food, I would not take that step backwards. That's my opinion.

And... if you think they will punish you for going away, I don't want to imagine the punishment for taking away their candy.

I am even looking at kids in my neighborhood who could take a cicle out of the freezer and plop it on the floor for an easy five bucks.
 
I leave the Young Again Zero Carb out 24/7 for my cats (including sugaract) to feed on anytime they want. It hasn't raised BG levels, and gives a food option when I can't be here and miss one or more of the wet food feeding times.
 
If your house is air-conditioned, and your cats are grazers (nibble what they want and come back later) you can leave canned food out 24 hrs

I leave low carb canned food out 24 hours per day -- I mix in extra water so it doesn't dry out as fast. If the previous meal bowl still looks decent, I will add some food to it. At 24 hours, I do provide clean bowls with fresh food.
 
I am going to go out of town in October and I'm thinking about having Pet Supplies Plus order me a bag of freeze dried raw food. I feed my dog and my sugar cat
Instinct Raw made by Nature's Instinct. They dont keep the freeze dried on the shelf but they told me that they can special order it for me.
I use the Raw for everyday feeding and it has to be thawed out the day before it is used and anything left over has to be picked up within 30 minutes.
The sitter I use will only stay for 30 minutes so I have to keep the prep time down. With the freeze dried raw food the sitter can just put it in a bowl and leave it because I know that my CL is not going to come to her like she does me. I dont think she is going to be able to give an injection because CL is going to hide from her until she leaves.
Anyway thats what I'm thinking about doing. Its either this or leave her at the vet's and she will be scared to death there! I'm weighing up the pro's and con's of home sitter or the vet's office!?!?!?
 
I just bought an auto feeder, 2 compartments. You can set for up to 48 hours ahead.

I checked it last night, and it was working good, set it up this morning, came home for lunch, and found that it had popped open just as I set it.

I know many sugar cats and non sugar cats love their kibble, but I would never risk remission regardless of what the bag says, especially if you have gotten them transitioned off totally of dry food.

I also use the cat-cicles and those work well too.
 
I'd suggest trying the frozen raw, in smaller chunks. Leave out during the day to see how much they eat as it defrosts.


For the canned food, add extra water to keep it moister. Make frozen canned food 'cicles. Try these before you leave.
 
dsmithkma said:
Hi-

Hope everyone is doing well.

My wife and I are going out of town for a week next month. We have been feeding our diabetic cat (now in remission, diet controlled), and our other civvies all wet food 2x per day.

We have a friend who can feed them in the evenings but no one in the mornings.

What about our friend feeding them canned in the evenings and also leaving out some low carb dry, say Young Again's Zero Carb or 50/22?
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Disclaimer that this is just my own experience

I had a similar problem - a week's vacation and only able to have a sitter come/shoot/feed once a day. I visited a number of boarding facilities but all of them would have greatly stressed my sugarcat and I had a difficult decision to make.

So, I did some preliminary testing as follows - I feed canned 2x a day - but for five days last month I replaced the morning feeding with dry (EVO) and then fed canned as usual in the evening. I found that my cat's BG was pretty consistent at preshot am/pm - the different food didn't affect her levels.

My cats are willing to eat either wet or dry, though they prefer dry when available. So, while on vacation, I had the sitter provide canned food and shoot - and then put dry food in a timed feeder to open 12 hours later.

It worked well - when I got home and started testing again her preshot BG levels were the same as when I'd left. We are now back on canned only as usual, fed twice a day.

As I say - this is just my own experience..ECID...my cat is well regulated on Lantus .5 BID - SID when I was on vacation.

Em
 
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