Prescription Diet or Commercial Food? Which is Better?

[Cat Ma]

Looking for a good quality low carb/diabetes friendly canned food and dry food prescription or not (which is better?)

 

[Larry and Kitties]

For canned see:
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/shortcut-shopping-list-all-8-or-less-updated.117688/
If you must feed dry there is:
- Evo Cat and Kitten Turkey and Chicken
- Young Again zero carb. Some cats do not like it.
- Epigen 90 dry food

 

[jane and stewey]

My cat is fed only wet food. Either Friskies or Fancy Feast and does well with those choices...pate only. Any form of dry kibble causes her sugars to soar. The vet wanted her on Purina DM. Her sugars were in the 3 and 4 hundreds. Now we see an occasional elevated sugar. Over all she is very stable. Good luck from jane and stewey

 

[Cat Ma]

My cat is fed only wet food. Either Friskies or Fancy Feast and does well with those choices...pate only. Any form of dry kibble causes her sugars to soar. The vet wanted her on Purina DM. Her sugars were in the 3 and 4 hundreds. Now we see an occasional elevated sugar. Over all she is very stable. Good luck from jane and stewey

Have you used Purina DM or do you stick to the Friskies and Fancy Feast?

 

[Melanie and Smokey]

I have used Purina DM. I have not met a cat who will willingly eat it for very long. Smokey lasted about 2 weeks, that is the longest I think I've had a cat on it so I don't usually bother wasting my time with it anymore. There really isn't a lot of prescription foods that fall in the 10% or less carb other than DM.

I try to start my diabetics off on Wellness and see if they will take to that. We feed a wide range of wet food in our house - Fancy Feast, Wellness, Merrick, Stella & Chewy's, Proplan, Friskies. The only dry that I let the diabetics have if they aren't eating right is EVO.

I am not sold on prescription food being better. The only explanation that I've gotten out of my regular vet was that it was consistent and exact from can to can in its contents where the otc stuff is not. I see more diabetes being caused by prescription food than being cured by it.

 

[Cat Ma]

Is Stella & Chewy's low carb/diabetic friendly like the others? My cat loves it and will eat it instead of dry food. I couldn't find the carb info for Stella & Chewy's on the Cat Food Chart, at least from the 2012 edition.

 

[BJM]

I believe Stella & Chewey's is low carb.