help with food

[carhag]

I have been feeding my cat Hills m/d canned food. The problem is she is always begging for more food. She is hungry all the time. She wants at least 3 cans a day through out the day. I have been trying to get her down to two cans. I feel like this food is not satisfying her and maybe need to try something else, any suggestions?
Also I will be going out of town so I may need to try to have a dry food out since my pet sitter can only come some days one visit. Any suggestions for a good dry food for just this case?
Thank you for your help
Carla

 

[Lisa and Smoky]

Young again dry food is one of the few low carb foods out there. A lot of people on here feed fancy feast, Friskies, and nine lives canned cat food. I don't put much stock in prescription foods, I gave smoky royal Canin SO for urinary for years. All it did was make him gain weight and might have contributed to him getting diabetes. If you look at the ingredients they are not that great for prescription food. Tiki cat is another low carb food with fewer calories in it.

 

[Lisa and Smoky]

You can order an automatic pet feeder, my neighbor has one for her cat that has five compartments in it. My roommate just told me that young again cat food is calorie dense?

 

[meowsyko]

Not sure if this is for a diabetic cat but low-carb food is best for all kitties anyway, so here we go:

Young Again Zero is the only low-carb kibble available and it needs to be ordered online. Wet food is always better for cats, they need the water as they don't naturally drink enough..

However, you can also get low-carb dehydrated food, and just not re-hydrate it if you really have to. Primal's is under 1% carbs... Ziwipeak's is designed to be eaten as a kibble and is under 2%... (I didn't realize they were that low and might stock up myself!)

Whatever you feed, I also recommend getting an automatic feeder as it sounds like if you leave it all out he's going to eat it all the first day.
3 cans sounds like a lot to me, but my cat is 18 and not very active. She eats 1/2-3/4 of a 6-oz can per day and it keeps her at a healthy weight. If she normally doesn't eat that much, and you haven't lately (within the past few months or so), I'd get her thyroid levels tested.