Still New with some food questions

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Renee & Kenny

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Hello all,
I am working on switching my Kenny over to FF pate, which he is loving. Where I am struggling is with his brother. I tried the Epigen 90 dry cat food, which they both liked for a minute. I mixed in a tiny, and I mean tiny amount to the brother's (Oliver) dry food, and he refused to eat it (for days). I tried to out stubborn him, but I am being defeated badly. Oliver is a large cat and would not eat. He will not eat wet food except for a few licks.

Kenny seems to be progressing but got into his brother's food last night, which negatively impacted him.
Keeping in mind, they were both free feeders a few weeks ago. I don't know where to go from here to keep Kenny out of Olivers's food. Oliver has the best personality. However, if he doesn't get his way, he is the type of cat that gets on the desk and starts knocking off glass stuff at 3 am.

Do you have a list of low-carb dry foods at all? Do you have any tips for keeping diabetic cats out of the other foods? The food situation has been the most stressful part so far.
 
Hi there!

Dr Elsey's Clean Protein and Young Again Zero Carb I believe are the only other ones.

They do make microchip feeders, but those are pricey.

Is it possible for you to only feed Oliver when you're home and can keep them separated? He may learn that a little quicker - eat what I'm given in a certain amount of time, or it gets taken away.

I'm laughing because my sister has a huge ginger cat also named Oliver, exact same personality :joyful:
 
I had the same experience transitioning to all wet food in the beginning. Took about a month, I put the wet food out for 30 minutes or so then picked it up, twice a day. Both cats lost weight which really helped the diabetes. Sucks, you feel bad but the only way to it will happen is when they get hungry enough they'll switch.
 
Wysong Epigen 90 is the other low-carb dry food. There are only 3 right now.

I feed this to my non-diabetic cat and give it to my diabetic cat as treats.
 
We you h8me all the time or do you have to leave food out when you go out?
I was wondering if an automatic timed feeder for Kenny would work, so that he had access to the wet at different times during the day.
 
Thanks for the advice, everyone: :) Right now, we are giving Oliver his food at limited times and trying to pick it up before Kenny gets to it. We just need to figure out the routine yet so we can settle in since they were both used to nibbling all day and night. Most of the eating here went on at night. So trying to get full bellies before bed so we can all sleep without chaos is one of our goals.
Kenny goes in for an ultrasound of his pancreas on Monday, but after getting him to eat the FF pate, he seems to be feeling and looking a bit better.
 
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