Purina DM wet food?

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monty_dweezil (GA)

monty_dweezil (GA)

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Is anyone using this wet food? I have read that it is the food used for a heap of feline Diabetes studies and is considered by some as THE food to feed Diabetic cats.

I was looking at the site and am confused as it seems to have more carbs than some other foods.
 
Tonka was pretty consistently on DM (the pate - not the "savory selects" which has a gravy base and is higher in carbs). Tonka seems to like it just fine but Teeger stopped eating the DM when it was all he was being offered - he'll eat it now that he gets a mixture. Tonka's blood sugars seem to be higher now that I'm mixing in Friskies turkey and giblets for variety (which many members here seem to feed) so either the Friskies is higher carb in Canada than in the States (possible) or Tonka is just being ornery with his blood sugars again (also possible).

I like the DM pate on paper because it has a better protein to fat ratio than most of the commercially available non-fish cat foods, but liver is the first ingredient in DM pate, and that seems like a Lot of liver to be living on...

Note: I've seen a couple different carb ratios for the DM pate. I can't remember them off hand, but one ratio is about the same as the Friskies turkey and giblet, and the other is a few percent lower, so it might actually be a lower carb food (here, in any case)
 
We just switched from Wellness to DM this month when Moby was diagnosed. He eats it but he seems a bit ambivalent. We're trying some new foods (I ordered a Fancy Feast variety and am getting some Merrick options today) to see what he likes. His overall blood sugar has not really dropped so I'd like to try something with even less carbs than DM.
 
I'm using that food now for my kitty Meowmeow and he's been doing okay. His numbers are pretty high still .. so i'm hoping to switch to raw food and seeing a difference. I don't like the look of DM savoury selects. it looks so rubbery, i don't understand why my cat likes it at all.
 
And if you were to mix half and half of the regular DM and the DM Savory selects, it'd average out at 6.5%.. You can mix stuff together to get what you want.
 
Heh!

I would consider doing that if I could actually GET the stuff to begin with!

I know another Diabetic cat mother has been annoying Purina for months trying to get them to make that food available here. Apparently it can be obtained, but only if you're a university or hospital undergoing research.

I thought I was going well when I found it on Amazon, but none of the sellers will post here except one who sells the savoury selects options, which have gravy and so higher carbs. No thanks.
 
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Iused Purina DM both wet and dry when my cat was first diagnosed. She absolutely hated it and would go hungry rather than eat it. The dry caused her blood sugars to soar. When you consider the over all make-up of the dry...it is too dry, to high in carbs, and animal based protein. I have switched my cat to a full wet food diet. I use friskies or fancy feast. I tried Sheba but her sugars soared on it. All of critters are a little different...one size does not fit all. Also, my girl will not the same flavor all the time. So, I vary the flavors and the brands. She is doing ever so well. Good luck from Jane and Stewey
 
@jane and stewey Monty_dweezil is in Australia. Many of those foods that we use here in the USA or Canada are either different formulations or not available down under.

For instance, the Fancy Feast pates in Australia have cereal high in the list of ingredients and are not low carb.
 
Yes, it is getting hugely frustrating for me. Fancy Feast I am scared to even try with Dweezil even when everything tells me it's safe (well, the recipes that are apparently safe anyway). We only had the ones that were apparently the lowest carb on the list, and yet poor Dweezil reverted right back to his pre-diagnosis symptoms within a week and took another week of being off the FF completely to return to a stable condition. Poor baby.

I just don't know what to buy for him. We're not rich but we can luckily afford to spend $60 on 24 small cans of Ziwipeak including postage, but...as an ongoing thing, especially if he's supposed to have 2-3 cans a day, this is just ridiculous.
 
You can add 20-25% plain meat or poultry to a canned food to improve the protein content and reduce the fat and carbohydrate content proportionately. Depending on its starting profile, that could be enough to shift it to an acceptable level.
 
Its from somewhere on the Cat Info site (I can never find the specific page!) I'd expect you to use cooked with cooked and raw with raw.
Texture is up to you.
 
I am absolutely clueless with meat as I barely eat it (except this weekend...when I ate a hot dog, a beef burger and a slab of grilled chicken) lol
 
The last time I did a calculation based on the can label data for Purina DM, it came out at c. 7% carbs. It didn't agree with Saoirse, btw.
 
Hmm, true. I had actually read that before but forgot (which specific food that referred quote above referred to).

I'm sort of mainly looking for any options for low carb food as I cannot get a lot of the same ones that those in the US can.
 
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