switch from Urinary So to purina DM wet food, vet recommends

[spike_kitty]

my vet recommends taking spike off the Royal Cain Urinary SO food to Purina DM wet food. she said that it is formulated that it is okay for cats with urinary crystal issues and diabetes. does anyone use purina dm wet food for a urinary issues and diabetic cat? thank you, Spike's mom

 

[manxcat419]

I don't because I tried one can and Rosa wouldn't eat it. Then I found this board and was told about the catinfo.org site and switched to Friskies pates instead. There is nothing in the DM food that is going to do anything more to prevent crystals than there is in any other wet food, it's expensive, isn't high quality ingredients and does no more to help with diabetes than any other low carb canned food. It's just that vets are given the hard-sell by prescription food companies and don't always realize that the prescription food is no better than a good quality regular food.

 

[Julia & Bandit (GA)]

There's nothing wrong with feeding Purina DM Canned--it's the only prescription food out there that is suitable for diabetics. However, it pretty much has the same ingredients as Fancy Feast, and you're paying a premium for the label alone.

If you want a food nearly identical in composition to the Purina DM that is much cheaper, you can go with Fancy Feast or Sheba pates, or Friskies. You can also get a premium canned food like Wellness, Weruva, or EVO for more than the grocery brand foods, but still less than what you're paying for the Purina DM and they will have better quality ingredients.

In my opinion, if you're going to pay that much for cat food, then it should be because it's higher quality, not because it's marketed to vets. If you're worried about offending your vet by not feeding it, you can always just say your cat won't eat it (there's a lot of liver in the DM which a lot of cats get sick of quickly), and that you'd thought you could try Fancy Feast instead because the ingredients are nearly identical.

Fancy Feast Liver & Chicken: Liver, meat broth, meat by-products, chicken, poultry by-products, artificial and natural flavors, calcium phosphate, guar gum, potassium chloride, taurine, salt, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin e supplement, ferrous sulfate, niacin, manganese sulfate, calcium pantothenate, vitamin a supplement, copper sulfate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin k activity), pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, vitamin B-12 supplement, biotin, folic acid, vitamin D-3 supplement, potassium iodide

Purina DM: Liver, poultry by-products, meat by-products, water sufficient for processing, chicken, salmon, oat fiber, salmon meal, artificial and natural flavors, guar gum, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, carrageenan, salt, Vitamin E supplement, taurine, thiamine mononitrate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, niacin, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, manganese sulfate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, biotin, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, potassium iodide.