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Lisa and Witn (GA)

Lisa and Witn (GA)

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I know - dry food is not good.

However, all 8 of my cats are always hungry eating Friskies canned food. None are sugar kitties and I want to try to keep it that way. However, since I have limited funds, I need to be able to add some more food to their diet that will help keep them full.

I know Evo Kitten is one low carb dry food. I think that I have also seen a couple other dry foods on this list that are low in carbs. However, I cannot remember the names of them.
 
Evo dry is a good low carb option. The only other low/no carb is Young Again and it quite pricey! (not that the Evo is exactly cheap)
 
Lisa and Witn (GA) said:
I know - dry food is not good.

However, all 8 of my cats are always hungry eating Friskies canned food. None are sugar kitties and I want to try to keep it that way. However, since I have limited funds, I need to be able to add some more food to their diet that will help keep them full.

I know Evo Kitten is one low carb dry food. I think that I have also seen a couple other dry foods on this list that are low in carbs. However, I cannot remember the names of them.
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When feeding dry, you just need to make sure that there's always plenty of fresh water available, a healthy cat will drink all it needs. My 6 cats are
always starving when only getting canned.
 
Lisa and Witn (GA) said:
I know - dry food is not good.

However, all 8 of my cats are always hungry eating Friskies canned food. None are sugar kitties and I want to try to keep it that way. However, since I have limited funds, I need to be able to add some more food to their diet that will help keep them full.

I know Evo Kitten is one low carb dry food. I think that I have also seen a couple other dry foods on this list that are low in carbs. However, I cannot remember the names of them.
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I swear by Young Again Mature Health Zero Carb. Salt has been otj with this and wet foods from The List .
What's more, he is eating less and has lost a bit of weight over time.
The problem ? It is pricey.
 
Thanks everyone. I picked up some Evo yesterday. The bad news is that it is only available at one store in Jacksonville. Fortunately it is close to where I work.
 
Recently I was reading on this site that there is a dry food entitled Young Again and is supposedly low in carbs. You might want to research it on the net. Good luck from Jane and Stewey
 
Marshmallow loved YA, but it is pricey. If you call the 800 number on their site, they'll send free samples so you can see if your cat will eat it.
 
@Lisa and Witn (GA), I feed my crunch junky Picasso Nature's Variety Instinct Chicken. @Sharon14 received data from the manufacturer that it is 12% calories from carbs - (the duck and rabbit are higher, but they are more $$ anyway). Not the lowest carbs, surely, but I can't get any EVO or YA food here in Canada and it's a good option. Picasso loves it.

Funny, my one civvie cat Jet transitioned to wet food really well and he also seems hungry all the time! I can imagine feeding 8 cats would send me to the bank to re-mortgage my house!
 
Here's the email I received from them. If you choose to feed it, email them for some coupons. image.jpg
 
My cat (way pre-diabetes) has never been able to tolerate canned food of any kind - dont' know why. I tried Evo dry and found that it raised his sugar levels significantly (no idea why) I am now on Royal Canin Glycobalance - it is high in carbs but supposedly low glycemic index ingredients - Young Again sent me free samples - Murphy loved it so I am awaiting a full size bag today and will start transitioning him to that today. Be prepared for how awful it smells. I will look into the other products mentioned above.
 
@Carol C I'd be interested to hear about the low GI food and how Murphy responds. My dad is a type II diabetic (20 years or longer) and finds that lower GI foods help dramatically. Of course, that's in a human, but it would be wonderful to have more options for folks who can't transition a cat to wet for whatever reason.
 
Hi Melanie - well, you can take a look at Murphy's spreadsheet and see that he is still very much uncontrolled - and he has lost a significant amount of weight Part of this is that I don't know what I am doing regarding his calorie intake - I was giving him too few calories and feeding him all wrong I think. Royal Canin is a brand of pet food that I have heard very good things about overall and have used it for my other cats. They are based in Ontario. Their glycobalance formula has high fiber, and I was attracted to it because it has lower caloric content than the other diabetic dry foods (most of which are very high in calories - like 600/cup) and the low glycemic ingredients. www.royalcanin.ca I'm going to be phasing in the Young Again.
 
Hi Carol - yes, the Royal Canin facility is actually pretty close to me. I'm glad you can have access to the YA food - we can't get it up here in Canada.

This is an older article so I'm not sure if I should necessarily post it but thought you would be interested: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17085236

I don't have the full article but here is the abstract:

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I know there are some very good resources here on caloric intake. I have to leave for a bit but if I have time I will link to them later --- I was interested because Genghis had lost a lot of weight, my Picasso is a real fatty-pants, and Jet is in ideal weight and I wanted to understand how much to feed them. Genghis started gaining weight after about a month but she has since levelled off.
 
Big fan of Young Again Zero Carb, yes it's expensive but the really do eat so much less of it then any other type of hard food so it lasts much longer . Go to their website and read about the good. Both my OTJ cats eat it and it doesn't effect the blood sugar at all..
I can't say enough good things about this good.
 
Since your cats are not diabetic just give them Nature's Variety Instinct. It's available in big bags locally (Petco and PetSmart):
http://www.instinctpetfood.com/product/instinct-grain-free-kibble-cat-food-chicken

There is also a higher protein version of this which is just out and I have not tried yet. I am not sure if it comes on a >10lb bag.

My second choice for something in a bigger bag is:
http://www.petsmart.com/featured-sh...-catid-800644?var_id=36-25936&_t=pfm=category
Simply Nourish™ SOURCE Indoor Adult Cat Food - Grain Free, High Protein, Fish & Chicken

If you are into smaller bags, there is always the Purina Pro Plan 45, which is 45% protein. It's around 20% carbs which should be fine for cats who aren't diabetic and don't want to be. I would not give any of the above to a diabetic cat.
 
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