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Cat girl

Cat girl

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I recently bought better dry food for my girls high protein grain free simply nourish and it helped miss kitty's sugar a lot but now I'm getting caught up I'm ready to get something better in dry.i have them on wet ff and 9 lives too pate.trying to get them over to wet if possible for these 2.especially miss kitty she gets so upset without her dry food.so going slowly.i don't know what to look for on labels and not very good with percentages.they are so picky with food.i read simply nourish ingredients and it had so many different things in it from meats to veggies etc.my cats love veggies and fruits for some reason.what food has everyone had luck on with their cats?evo?i want something that isn't bad in price either.im sending a pic of how much protein and carbs are in this food.i went to petsmart and there was so many new better foods and got so confused lol.i tried blue basics but my girls wouldn't touch it.:banghead:
 

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There are only a few dry foods with low enough carbs for diabetic. Young Again Zero Carb, which can only be bought online, EVO Cat and Kitten, and I believe there is one other now, Epigen90 that I am not familiar with. All others are above 10%.
 
Heff gets a sprinkling of EVO dry (the purple bag) on his FF. He eats about 1/2 his bowl and then gives me the luck. I sprinkle about a teaspoon of EVO in and give him his shot.
 
The lowest carb dry food I found at Petsmart was Natures Variety Instinct Chicken. It is 12%, a little high for a diabetic kitty. I give it to some of my civies though. image.jpgHere is the info from the company. If Miss Kitty insists on dry check into the Young Again.
 
Remember! "Grain Free" does not mean low carb :( Unfortunately, for those kibble lovers, dry in general is just NOT good for them. (Yes, there are a few low carb ones, but even Young Again that claims to be zero carb is not)
For the kibble lovers, try to switch them over to dehydrated chicken for treats. My boy LOVES pieces of cooked chicken! Just boil up a chicken breast or two, chop it into bite size pieces, stays good in the fridge for a few days. My guy gets a bowl of this as his late day treat.

But in a nutshell? Ideally?? ZERO dry food, nada, zip, zilch . . . .
 
Darcy and Lebowski said:
Remember! "Grain Free" does not mean low carb :( Unfortunately, for those kibble lovers, dry in general is just NOT good for them. (Yes, there are a few low carb ones, but even Young Again that claims to be zero carb is not)
For the kibble lovers, try to switch them over to dehydrated chicken for treats. My boy LOVES pieces of cooked chicken! Just boil up a chicken breast or two, chop it into bite size pieces, stays good in the fridge for a few days. My guy gets a bowl of this as his late day treat.

But in a nutshell? Ideally?? ZERO dry food, nada, zip, zilch . . . .
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I'm trying to get them over to wet but miss kitty gets soooo upset without it so going slow.problem with them too I could never get them to eat hardly any meat either always put a piece down when I made something.they love veggies fruit and sweets but almost every meat I put down I always got nose in the air except turkey sometimes and tuna they liked but turkey I found out has sugar and I had to try many wet foods before I found some they liked.my cats are strange.
 
Cat girl said:
I'm trying to get them over to wet but miss kitty gets soooo upset without it so going slow.problem with them too I could never get them to eat hardly any meat either always put a piece down when I made something.they love veggies fruit and sweets but almost every meat I put down I always got nose in the air except turkey sometimes and tuna they liked but turkey I found out has sugar and I had to try many wet foods before I found some they liked.my cats are strange.
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Hi, is Miss Kitty diabetic? Or a "civvie"?
 
Cat girl said:
Miss kitty is diabetic.what is civvie?havent figured out what that is yet.my brain is mush right now with all the reading and info lately lol
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I can't give her a lot of the treats I gave her either.i would give them a teaspoon of my yogurt when I had some and whenever I eat something I would give them a small piece or some on my finger.it is so hard not to looking into those eyes.they sure know how to make you feel bad.lol
 
Cat girl said:
I can't give her a lot of the treats I gave her either.i would give them a teaspoon of my yogurt when I had some and whenever I eat something I would give them a small piece or some on my finger.it is so hard not to looking into those eyes.they sure know how to make you feel bad.lol
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Stay strong, lol! Although I don't think a tiny bit of plain yogurt would hurt. I use the Pure Bites treats now, they're just dehydrated meat/seafood. My cats all go crazy over the chicken and the turkey ones. :)
 
Cat girl said:
Miss kitty is diabetic.what is civvie?havent figured out what that is yet.my brain is mush right now with all the reading and info lately lol
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Hey, a civvie is a cat in your home that is not diabetic. The diabetic cat is sometimes called the sugar cat and the non-diabetic is the civvie.
 
Darcy and Lebowski said:
Remember! "Grain Free" does not mean low carb :( Unfortunately, for those kibble lovers, dry in general is just NOT good for them. (Yes, there are a few low carb ones, but even Young Again that claims to be zero carb is not)
For the kibble lovers, try to switch them over to dehydrated chicken for treats. My boy LOVES pieces of cooked chicken! Just boil up a chicken breast or two, chop it into bite size pieces, stays good in the fridge for a few days. My guy gets a bowl of this as his late day treat.

But in a nutshell? Ideally?? ZERO dry food, nada, zip, zilch . . . .
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Exactly! I had my cats on a dry (before the diabetes DX) and it was grain free but had peas in it!!!!! Peas, high in carbs, Also, the dry food companies but potatoes instead of grains....... still high in carbs. Remember, cats are carnivores not herbivores. They don't eat vegetables in the wild, just protein.
 
Bobbie And Bubba said:
Exactly! I had my cats on a dry (before the diabetes DX) and it was grain free but had peas in it!!!!! Peas, high in carbs, Also, the dry food companies but potatoes instead of grains....... still high in carbs. Remember, cats are carnivores not herbivores. They don't eat vegetables in the wild, just protein.
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I didn't know peas are high in carbs too!i knew potatoes are but not stuff like peas and Lima beans etc.my cats love veggies and fruit plus sweets.i have been trying to get them to eat meat since they were kittens but won't touch anything except tuna and sometimes turkey.glad they liked some canned foods.that is one reason I thought they might like this food is that it has meats and veggies in it.saw the potatoes in it and decided maybe I should look for something even better.it helped a lot so I know something better will help her sugar even more.i have a sugar cat and a civie cat both fat.my civie lost half her weight and she is still big!she looked like a bowling ball with legs at one time lol
 
I was just remembering the time I got mice in my place with these 2 and they wouldn't eat them.they killed like 2 and left them laying there on floor and the rest they kept playing with til they got away or I got up and caught it so it wouldn't get away and back up into the house.i wanted rid of them as fast as I could.i had a Siamese before these 2 that tried to stuff a dead mouse in my mouth while I was asleep!!i couldn't believe it.i went and scrubbed my face and mouth out.soooo gross!!i know it was a special present she was trying to give but ewwwwwww....!
 
Cat girl said:
I was just remembering the time I got mice in my place with these 2 and they wouldn't eat them.they killed like 2 and left them laying there on floor and the rest they kept playing with til they got away or I got up and caught it so it wouldn't get away and back up into the house.i wanted rid of them as fast as I could.i had a Siamese before these 2 that tried to stuff a dead mouse in my mouth while I was asleep!!i couldn't believe it.i went and scrubbed my face and mouth out.soooo gross!!i know it was a special present she was trying to give but ewwwwwww....!
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Lol, I'm sorry, but that's hilarious! She must have loved you a lot, and was obviously fairly certain you were incapable of catching and eating your own mouse, lol! :D
 
Now when I think about it I laugh but at the time I was so grossed out.was laying on my back in middle of night and I wake up a little to her standing on my chest and felt something fuzzy pushing on my lips and felt something like scraping against my cheek.then I picked her up and set her next to me.then she started meowing and it sounded really weird and awful.that is when my eyes snapped open wide awake thinking something might be wrong with her so I got up turned light on and there she is with a mouse in her mouth!that is why her meowing sounded strange cause she was meowing with mouse in her mouth still.then flashes of fuzzy stuff on lips etc came to mind and realize the scraping was the mouse's tail on my cheek!i flew into bathroom to sanitize my face and mouth.ewwwwwww!she was so proud of her wonderful gift too lol
 
Cat girl said:
I was just remembering the time I got mice in my place with these 2 and they wouldn't eat them.they killed like 2 and left them laying there on floor and the rest they kept playing with til they got away or I got up and caught it so it wouldn't get away and back up into the house.i wanted rid of them as fast as I could.i had a Siamese before these 2 that tried to stuff a dead mouse in my mouth while I was asleep!!i couldn't believe it.i went and scrubbed my face and mouth out.soooo gross!!i know it was a special present she was trying to give but ewwwwwww....!
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My friend's cat took an alive mouse and put it in her daughter's hair while she was asleep, and she was awoken by a mouse running through her hair!
 
Bobbie And Bubba said:
Exactly! I had my cats on a dry (before the diabetes DX) and it was grain free but had peas in it!!!!! Peas, high in carbs, Also, the dry food companies but potatoes instead of grains....... still high in carbs. Remember, cats are carnivores not herbivores. They don't eat vegetables in the wild, just protein.
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Cat girl said:
I didn't know peas are high in carbs too!i knew potatoes are but not stuff like peas and Lima beans etc.my cats love veggies and fruit plus sweets.i have been trying to get them to eat meat since they were kittens but won't touch anything except tuna and sometimes turkey.glad they liked some canned foods.that is one reason I thought they might like this food is that it has meats and veggies in it.saw the potatoes in it and decided maybe I should look for something even better.it helped a lot so I know something better will help her sugar even more.i have a sugar cat and a civie cat both fat.my civie lost half her weight and she is still big!she looked like a bowling ball with legs at one time lol
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one that didn't know about peas. I recently bought a bag about the size of a flipping BOWLING BALL of dried, salted peas for ME as a treat! They are reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally yummy! Here I was thinking "hey! Peas!! Now THAT has to be low fat and low carb, right? RIGHT??"

aaaaaaaahhhhh crap ;)
 
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