Wellness canned cat food

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Is this particular kind of wet canned cat food low in carbs? I was looking to go to Tractor Supply because they carry Wellness Chicken formula and Turkey too. Is it low enough in carbs that it should help Poopers with his glucose? Just trying to find something else for him to eat besides the Turkey and Giblets because for some reason it doesn't seem to be dropping his numbers like it has before. :(
 
Yes I've seen that but I don't want science, I want from people who feed it to their cats. Do you feed it for diabetes and does it not spike glucose? The ONLY canned cat food I haven't tried is through ordering online and thats Tiki. I just need something to buy from grocery store that will help to drop glucose but also give him a healthy diet since he doesn't really touch any dry food.
 
I was feeding it while the kittens were growing, then my budget broke. I'm feeding Friskies pates to all 16.

And the science part is that anything under 10% calories from carbohydrates may be fed. You choose the best you can within the budget you have ... and how it affects YOUR cat, not anyone else's. Every cat is different.
 
Yea I know the reasoning behind that. My cats are very picky and every cat is different. Been a hassle trying to find a healthy low carb wet cat food that doesn't have the junk ingredients in it like glutens and soy. Sad part is so many high ratings for those junk foods.
 
I just wanted to know if anyone is or was feeding Wellness Chicken to their diabetic cat as it helped to get them into remission.
 
I use freeze-dried chicken for treats.
Check the ingredients. If you see guar gum, grains, legumes, fruits, or potatoes (all carb sources), don't risk it be very careful.
 
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So guar gum is to be avoided as a general rule? Eeep. So many canned foods (even low carb ones) have this listed, fairly far down the list of ingredients. I always assumed it must be in ALL foods that are kind of "set" in the can.
 
Depends on how your cat reacts, really. I amended the preceding post to say be very careful. The amount is what is important; trivial amounts may do nothing while large amounts may spike the glucose.
 
Yes...

Do you know if certain foods list, say...

"Chicken, water required for processing, beef, liver, mackerel, chicken meal, chicken broth, guar gum, locust bean gum..." (like the gum and other questionable ingredients are about 7th down the list), is it likely to be safe?
 
So although they don't say how much each amount is, if it's down 6th or 7th on the list, we could hope Dweezil would be ok to try it? Goodo. :)
 
One day I hope we can actually test Dweezil's BG properly.

Last week the day I was going to try, he and Monty had an altercation and things were so tense, I couldn't even attempt the ear. The next day I didn't want to push him either, since he was still a bit timid. I was going to try it again over the weekend but got it stuck in my head that he was going back to the vet on Monday for his next tests and fructosamine test, but then was told this was actually NEXT Monday. Grrrrr.

So now I will next get a chance to test him on Wednesday. If not tonight at 8pm, if he lets me...gulp.
 
I'm finding that testing while on the floor works the best for me. Edwin always really likes when I get down on the floor with him. We do some relaxing petting and playing, including a bunch of handling and playing gently with his ears.

I keep the meter next to me with the test strip just slightly inserted. Enough to hold the test strip, but not turn the meter on. When he's relaxed we do the ear poke. Once a drop of blood appears I hold his head gently so he doesn't shake the blood off, push the test strip all the way in, wait a few seconds for the meter, and then get the blood sample.

If your cat likes being on the floor with you, perhaps this would work. You could put your other cat in another room so it's just quiet playtime and testing for the two of you.
 
Wellness Chicken Formula (paté) and Turkey Formula (paté) are both 4% of calories from carbs. Wellness Core Turkey and Duck is 5%. Wellness Core Chicken and [something] is 8%. I have fed the Chicken and Turkey patés for years and Rusty has liked some batches better than others. I buy the 3-oz cans ("product of Canada"); the larger cans are "made in USA" and, although the ingredients are supposedly the same, the consistency is different and Rusty has always preferred the Canadian cans. That said, there has been recent discussion in the pet-food safety blogs about Wellness changing their paté formulas but not putting the change on the labels. Most alarming is that some cats have gotten very sick, apparently from eating Wellness patés. I stopped feeding Wellness chicken and turkey formulas about a month ago, but still feed the Wellness Core Turkey & Duck. I am looking for comparable foods (Rusty has food allergies (to fish) , so I have to read the labels carefully and am always careful with the chicken formulas, since many of them list fish in the ingredients). My mainstay food is Fancy Feast Turkey & Giblets (3% carbs); Rusty will always eat that and loves it.
It is virtually impossible to find any food without some kind of "gum" in the ingredients. The companies include it for improving the consistency. Carrageenan is apparently more worrisome than the 'gums'.
There has been talk on the FDMB about starting a Food Forum where all issues relating to food can be discussed. Stay tuned!

Ella & Rusty
 
Ella, thank you for this clear and for me timely synopsis. I have one OTJ kitty, Little One, whom I adopted from an elderly neighbor. I'm a 72 year-old spring chicken! My Pudge (GA - was OTJ & his death was not connected to diabetes) never much liked Wellness nor Merrick's before grain. Your clarity lets me see why it was that he ate some cans more readily than others. He preferred Fancy Feast. I wrote "timely" because my daughter has a non-diabetic totally adorable drama queen feline, named Bella, who occasionally develops very itchy bumps on her face. The first time it happened was on a visit to me in California but now it's happening in Utah where they live. So it cannot be due merely to "the environment" as her vet thought. I would be most interested in a Food forum in our friendly and knowledgeable group.
Thanks again and best wishes,
Sophie
 
Moby enjoys the turkey and the chicken pates from Wellness. Gobbles them up! I can't offer anything reliable as to how exactly it affects him (my hunch is it keeps his levels a bit higher than the Fancy Feast pates) but he enjoys it and I know it's low carb and of reasonable quality.
 
I am feeding wellness in my rotation of foods. I have to feed many foods because she will stop eating them. Right now I'm feeding Fancy Feast pate, Friskies Pate, Wellness Grain Free and Wellness Core Grain Free and also
Natures Variety 96% real meat. I am always looking for more food selection for her because she will eat it really well for a day or maybe two and then refuse to eat it. Crazy cat!!! :banghead::blackeye::cat::confused::eek:
 
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