Friskies and 9 Lives

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The lower the carbs the better regardless if they're pate or not. Better yet, if your cat loves the food and it's low carbs!
 
I feed both of mine (only one diabetic) the Friskies Special Diet and they do great on it, plus it's a lot cheaper on my wallet for the amount these two guys eat. :lol:
 
I feed Fancy Feast Classics, 9 Lives Dinner, and Friskies Special Diet. But I see on the label that Friskies has Brewer's Rice. Not sure if that is a grain but are you saying that the Brewer's Rice is not a concern as long as the carb number is very low? Luckily Nicholas LOVES the Friskies Turkey & Giblet Special Diet. The civvies are half and half on it, but they prefer FF & 9 Lives more.
And I am ignorant to this, so bear with me, but does the fact that the Friskies Special Diet helps with keeping Urinary PH in check, does that lessen chances of kidney problems? Does it help reduce chance of ketones, or is that nothing to do with PH or low magnesium in Special Diet?
 
I would naturally think that brewers rice would be like any other kind of rice. I've been feeding some of the 9 Lives food and they all seem to like it. I went to Walmart the other day and was looking at and studying the can labels. I was there a long time, and I think some of the others there thought I was crazy! Who looks on cans of cat food, except us? Anyway I also had Lisa's list with me to make sure I didn't get the wrong type. I cut and pasted all the low carb food with their carb totals and helped a lot. I was feeding around 7-9% carb and now the highest one was 6% with most around 4%. Hopefully this will help with the numbers.

Thank you to all who posted replies!

Sandy
 
All 14 of mine eat Friskies Classic Pate this is the diet that Maxwell went OTJ on and as of November 1 2013 is 3 years insulin free.

Also the carb precentage can vary from batch to batch. So there is no true way of knowing exactly what the carb precentage is that is being fed.

It really depends on how carb sensitive your particular cat is some do fine on a small amount of grain some do not. E.C.I.D.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
 
Nicksmom said:
I feed Fancy Feast Classics, 9 Lives Dinner, and Friskies Special Diet. But I see on the label that Friskies has Brewer's Rice. Not sure if that is a grain but are you saying that the Brewer's Rice is not a concern as long as the carb number is very low? Luckily Nicholas LOVES the Friskies Turkey & Giblet Special Diet. The civvies are half and half on it, but they prefer FF & 9 Lives more.
And I am ignorant to this, so bear with me, but does the fact that the Friskies Special Diet helps with keeping Urinary PH in check, does that lessen chances of kidney problems? Does it help reduce chance of ketones, or is that nothing to do with PH or low magnesium in Special Diet?
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Nah, there's nothing really "special" about the Special Diet as far as I can tell except it's lower in carbs and has higher protein than the regular Friskies. It's close-to-impossible to find some type of commercial cat food that doesn't contain carbs so I'll take a little bit of Brewer's Rice any day over full-blown, regular rice, peas, carrots, potatoes, and all that other junk they stick in cat food. ;-)

Adding water to the food helps with kidney problems, UTIs, and all that other stuff. You also want to keep the phosphorus levels as low as possible, so try to stay away from the fishy foods as they're usually higher in phosphorus (I only feed my cats seafood once a week). There is a recommendation for CRF cats to consume less protein, but I'm not really familiar with this part of the dietary puzzle since I don't have any CRF cats and I had kittens that needed higher protein.

And ketones aren't caused by anything the cat is eating, per se. Ketones are caused by a cat not eating combined with a lack of insulin and usually an infection of some sort. Some cats are more prone to ketones than other cats, but it's important to test the urine of diabetic cats at least weekly for ketones. The faster you catch it, the faster and the less expensive it gets for you to treat it.
 
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