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Caryn and Powder

Caryn and Powder

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My cat Powder was just diagnosed this week with diabetes and I have been on this sight ever since.. Thanks for all the wonderful adivse. I do have a question for anyone that might have some input. My vet originally prescibed prescription diet w/d canned and (dry) unitl I can get him weaned off the dry anyway. I now know that precription diet is the wrong food for him. I have been transitioning him to fancy feast original chicken canned because that seems better for now and I used to feed him that in years past, so I thought that would be best. But I am having a hard time with the dry....I know I have to transition off of it, but I also have another healthy cat and they are both looking for their dry food and getting upset about it when it's not there. They were grazers...all day and night on science diet. I went out and bought some Wellness to mix in with there science diet for now and they hate it. I told my vet that I did not want to give them prescription w/d so they gave me some Purina DM. What does anyone have to say about this dry food. I am hoping to be able to get them off of it eventually but for now I need a little something. Thanks.

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Hill's d/m dry has 15 % carbs in it and seems comparable to this Purina DM dry. We don't have Purima DM here so I don't know how many carbs it has, but I know Royal Canin feline diabetes dry has 18 %. IMHO, the Hill's d/m dry, which I use myself, would be the better transitioner choice, since it seems to have the lowest carbs. BUT, you have something called EVO dry over there in US, which I believe have even more lower carbs in it. Perhaps that could be an option?
 
According to Janet & binky's dry food list the Purina DM has 13% carbohydrate which is why I thought this would be better than the Hills prescription w/d that was 37% carbs. I don't know why ny vet did not prescribe the Hill's m/d because that one is also 13%.
 
How much does EVO dry have?


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This is the effect of dosage the different dry foods have had on my Simba.

w/d high carb dry food (ca 37 % carbs) - 6 Units BID Lantus daily
k/d high carb dry food (ca 35 % carbs) - 4 Units BID Lantus daily
m/d low carb dry food (15 % carbs) - 2 Units BID Lantus daily


so you can see the huge change in insulin needed ...


Simba has also been on all wet food, fed 8 times a day and night and fresh raw ground beef 100 gram a day. That's what I did to him in January 2008, I pulled all dry food, period, and had to have classes with him each day in learning HOW to eat raw ground beef. He had never had it before :-) It went very well and we were down to 0.50-0.75 Units BID, but I fell down a stair case and became more disabled than I already was from a car accident, and I went back to wet in the morning and bedtime, and dry food out during the day and night.
 
Here's the dry food link:

http://binkyspage.tripod.com/dryfood.html

KT just LOVES his hard food and hated not having it. We just got a bag of EVO dry Chicken/Turkey at 8% - it doesn't seem to spike him unless I overfeed. I give him a shy 1/4th cup while the others eat their regular dry.

It can be ordered online at petfoodsdirect.com and many other places.

HUGS!
 
Strange ... one seem to be able to get EVO dry cat food on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/EVO-Turkey-Chicke ... B0010K7CEQ

"EVO Turkey and Chicken Formula Dry Cat Food was created to supply the key nutritional benefits of a raw food diet in a safe and convenient manner. EVO can be fed exclusively as a total diet for your pet or in combination with a raw diet to provide a solid nutritional base of the important vitamins and minerals your feline might otherwise be missing."


Can't find carbs for it though but will keep looking.
 
You can find Innova EVO at non-chain pet stores/boutiques. The EVO web site has a store locator that you can use to find a local store that sells the products. OnlyNaturalPet.com and other higher end online pet supply stores also sell EVO.

I know it's hard to ignore a cat begging for dry food and stuff but you have to be firm about it. They'll sulk for awhile but will get over it. Dr. Lisa's web site has tips on how to transition dry food addicts to canned food: http://catinfo.org/docs/Tips for Transitioning PDF 1-14-11.pdf You could feed some dry as treats or feed all the cats a low carb crunchy treat like Poultry Crispies.
 
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