? Ran out of Kibble during transition to Wet

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Griffin's Mom

Griffin's Mom

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Hi Everyone,

Griffin is transitioning to Wet food and it was suppose to happen slowly to to some crazy numbers and I am new to this (even though he was dx a year ago).

I thought we had enough vet food to last through the transition but because we are going slower than I first calculated for, we ran out.

I would like to not buy a new bag of vet food, if I don't have to. It is over 50 dollars a bag and last a month. Medi-cal diabetic (by Royal Canin).

Does anyone have any suggestion to move forward ? or a non vet brand that I could get a small bag of to finish the transition?

I am going to see if any of the vets in the "city" (going this morning) have small or sample bags. Griff had his last kibble meal this morning. Next kibble meal is due at dinner. He gets two wet meals a day Lunch and snack.

I will be home this afternoon and all day tomorrow to monitor.

PS We got our first urine test at home finally - NO KETONES WOOHOO

Thanks Moe
 
How close are you to completing your transition to all wet and how much dry does he get? If it's only a few days, you could try using freeze dried meat treats (very low carb) in place of the dry. I buy the Orijen brand in pet food stores like Global Pet Foods and they're around $7 CAD a bag. You might get 3 quite small kibble meals out of one bag. They have about 4 flavours and Teasel loves them. BTW - I'm in Canada too.
 
He gets:

1/4 cup dry - breakfast
Wet - lunch
1/4 cup dry - dinner
Wet - snack

We where going slow - plan was to remove dry breakfast for wet and spend a week with 3 wet meals before removing dry at dinner.
 
Griffin's dry is high carb. It looks as though you are half way through transition so it seems like you have two choices, either find another dry food or finish the switch to wet now with the risk of crashing his numbers even if the dose is reduced at the same time. I am reminded of another kitty who hypo'd on a tiny dose of insulin following a food change and then went OTJ but it was very stressful for the caregiver. My feeling is to get a small bag of the dry and complete the food switch whilst monitoring and being prepared to reduce the dose. Griffin is getting nice consistent numbers and you have already stepped down in dose so can do it again as those numbers drop.
 
Ok, went to 5 vets in Barrie today and not one had diabetic food in stock :banghead: Bad mum, should have double checked during the week.

Now I am forced to make the transition faster than I would like. ALL Wet going forward.
We are feeding friskies. I have honey and HC dry in the house.

I tested the two civvies in the house they are sitting at 4.4 & 4.7 is this a normal reading?

Should I pre-emptively change dose to 1 unite to avoid going too low?

What is the danger point with no symptoms?

Moe
 
You could buy a couple of cans of Friskies with gravy that are higher carb and either use them if Griffin's BG goes too low or mix them with pate style Friskies (low carb).
 
Re dose, etc.: there's no way to know what lack of dry food will do to BG unless/until it's accomplished. If you're worried you could lower the dose or leave it the same, monitor carefully and be prepared to react if hypo numbers happen. They don't always show outward signs when they're going too low. If the numbers get too low you should follow the hypo protocol of frequent BG test, feeding of small amounts of gravy from high carb food, etc. http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/how-to-treat-hypos-they-can-kill-print-this-out.15887/
 
The switch to low carb canned food from high carb food may reduce glucose 100-200 mg/dL and reduce the insulin dose 1-2 units, based on anecdotal reports on this forum.
 
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