Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :(

[Melanie and Smokey]

We have had very few problems with controlling Smokey diabetes. She came tripping down that dose scale like a trooper and has given us nice flat 80s unless other things like stress or meds have interferred, and even then nothing too bad. Tonite she was 230. :sad: The only time we've hit that since insulin is with steroids.

Enter foster cat on Science Diet Lite. Not my cat so I am feeding what they want him on, even though he does steal snacks off of our cats' soft food. When he comes out of his room his door is closed or we put his food dish inside the small plastic tub we keep the food in. Smokey will go in there and attempt to break into the tub, sometimes I find it tipped upside down and on the other side of the room. She's not that interested in most hard food, but they lived on SD hairball light for most of their lives and she used to come running when she heard that bag come through the door. She didn't have a weight problem UNTIL we put them on the light version.

Today I had closed Tiger's door when I let him out, but he wanted back in so I opened it and meant to close it after scooping cat boxes down stairs, but forgot. Smokey is normally right beside me upstairs, but when I noticed she didn't come for supper I went looking for her and she is hunkered down downstairs looking guilty. Tiger's bowl is licked clean. Rotten little cat earned herself a series of earpokes.

 

[Carl & Polly & Bob (GA)]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

I know it really isn't funny, but I have to tell you that I laughed out loud...
Especially the last line.
"Rotten" kitty will probably be sitting there purring the whole time you're poking because A) she misses the dance a little bit, and B) she knows there's a treat coming!

It is amazing the lengths they will go to eat the forbidden fruit. Hopefully this will just be a blip and the numbers will quickly revert to greens.

Keep us posted,
Carl

 

[Melanie and Smokey]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

Yes, she is laying here grinning and purring! She got the forbidden food and Tiger has been put in his room (she doesn't like having a foster here) and now has mommy's attention.

 

[ohbell]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

omg, I laughed as well! Not cute, but what a cute story! Sneaky sneaky girl! My civvie Slappy is finally eating wet after dropper feeding her for 3 weeks while she was sick, butttttt..... she is sooo picky, she will only eat a/d! Darn it, I wish I would have had my magic bullet and was able to get that ff in the dropper. Sneaky Sugar Bean will try with all her mite to get that food and so will civvie Lil Sista.... Drives me crazy that Slappy will not eat anything else... Think I might dropper feed her a bit of ff now that I can puree it! Perhaps that will transition to all on ff!
Wishing luck to you!

 

[Julia & Bandit (GA)]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

Ugh, poor Smokey! Science Diet Lite is one of the worst foods--the number 1 ingredient is rice and number 2 is corn gluten. I can understand that they might not want the foster on canned food, but any way you could at least switch her to EVO dry or Wellness Core? If they have the cat on that food to lose weight it's never going to happen, except though nutritional deficiencies or disease.

Then that way if Smokey breaks into the food, it won't knock him out of remission at least. You're the one fostering the cat, so I would explain the situation and see if they'd be willing to switch the food.

If you can switch, remember that EVO is much higher in calories compared to the Science junk so the other cat's food portions will need to be reduced.

 

[Melanie and Smokey]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

Well sneaky is back down to 133 so thats better, not good yet but better. She was under the bed this morning (she know medicine comes after breakfast) and I had early morning meetings so I couldn't check her again until now.

SD lite is the worst, I totally agree. Its why I have a diabetic cat and she's addicted to the stuff. Other hard she doesn't care about, but that stuff she's crazy for. When we brought Tiger back home for the second time I told them I had Wellness Core and Innova Cat & Kitten hard if they didn't want him on soft, but if they wanted to keep him on the light they'd have to provide it-they sent a bag with. I'm not going to argue with them and have them make him stay in the shelter so he's eating crap AND stressed out, he did not do good in the kennel at all and the exercise he gets playing with my babies is the most important for his health and weight. I had been mixing a bit of the Wellness Core into his SD to give him some better protein, but didn't get to it on this tub, and he does nab some of the soft so he's not surviving completely on garbage food. I have been tempted to poke his ears! He's such a love bug. Our hope was that he'd have been adopted long before now.

 

[KarenRamboConan]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

:lol: Thanks for the laugh!

Great example of why we call these guys "diet controlled". A friend's diet controlled sugarcat had her BGs skyrocket for "apparently" no reason... until my friend noticed that "someone" had chewed a hole in the bag of cracked corn that she keeps to feed the birds. The corn is now in metal containers, and Miss Grace's BGs are back to normal.

I do wish SD Lite would vanish off the face of the earth. Horrid stuff. :evil:

 

[Vicky & Gandalf (GA) & Murrlin]

Re: Results of high carb dry on a diet controlled diabetic :

I do wish SD Lite would vanish off the face of the earth. Horrid stuff. :evil:

As is the SD Hairball Control. I fed that for a number of years, mistakenly believing it helped the hairballs. Yeah, when your cat stops grooming because he's sick from diabetes it helps!