Shopping List - Wet Food
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Ann & Tess GA
Member Since 2010
Here you go Janet & Binky's list
Ann & Maggie11 (GA)
Member Since 2010
Oh poor Smokey, two extractions pulled today! How is he feeling? Sending some feel better vines. I hope you can find a wet food he likes. A lot of the kitties are addicted to Fancy Feast. Fancy Feast Chicken is a good one. There are so many choices. Wellness Chicken or Wellness Turkey are two other really good choices.
Hope he soon feels better.
Hope he soon feels better.
julie & punkin (ga)
Member Since 2011
i'm confused - isn't smokey already on wet low-carb canned food? if not, with such a tiny dose, and such low numbers, you may be doing an OTJ trial soon. you've really got to get lots of mid-cycle tests if you're switching foods to something lower carb so smokey doesn't go too low. i'm looking at tonight with shooting a 53 and being at 43 at +3 and having to give high carbs.
Roni and Moonie
Member Since 2009
Hope Smokey has beautiful toofs now & will get greener numbers!
Good that you got the dental, it will make a difference!
Good that you got the dental, it will make a difference!
Smokey
Member Since 2010
Thanks everyone!
Smokey has always been on 1/4 cup of W/D BID (for a lot of reasons). He has never been on just wet.
I get very nervous taking him off of insulin completely for this week while he heals...I'm worried for him that I will have to start all over again once he goes back to dry food so I have been trying to give him a drop or two for this week so his shed doesn't completely drain and he becomes resistant to the insulin again! That was a nightmare!
When he went OTJ before, he stayed consistently between 40-60 so even though he is comfortable at those numbers, I still take the necessary steps to ensure he doesn't drop below that.
Smokey has always been on 1/4 cup of W/D BID (for a lot of reasons). He has never been on just wet.
I get very nervous taking him off of insulin completely for this week while he heals...I'm worried for him that I will have to start all over again once he goes back to dry food so I have been trying to give him a drop or two for this week so his shed doesn't completely drain and he becomes resistant to the insulin again! That was a nightmare!
When he went OTJ before, he stayed consistently between 40-60 so even though he is comfortable at those numbers, I still take the necessary steps to ensure he doesn't drop below that.
julie & punkin (ga)
Member Since 2011
i am not sure, but i don't think you can ever expect smokey to go off of insulin while he is eating dry food. it all has a lot of carbs, even the lowest dry formulas - i'm not expert on that, but that's what i understand. if smokey has concurrent health reasons that have caused you to keep him on dry food there might be other ways to address those issues while still giving the canned food.
just seems like you've got a great opportunity here that with a change to the right canned food, he might not need injected insulin. my understanding is that once a cat has been diabetic you must always continue to feed them the low-carb canned food. returning to their previous non-diabetic diet will likely mean a return of the active diabetes and injected insulin.
i don't mean to go on about it, denne', but sometimes people don't know. if you know all of this and still want to do it, that's your choice, of course. you might send a pm to one of the more experienced people and ask for their input on the topic.
just seems like you've got a great opportunity here that with a change to the right canned food, he might not need injected insulin. my understanding is that once a cat has been diabetic you must always continue to feed them the low-carb canned food. returning to their previous non-diabetic diet will likely mean a return of the active diabetes and injected insulin.
i don't mean to go on about it, denne', but sometimes people don't know. if you know all of this and still want to do it, that's your choice, of course. you might send a pm to one of the more experienced people and ask for their input on the topic.
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