But - it isn't!
Took my Diabetic cat to the Vet on Friday and got a clean bill of health!
She hadn't gained much weight, but her bony spine had filled in and her fur now is incredibly soft and healthy looking.
In the space of 2 weeks, her diabetes has gone into remission and she is healthier than before she got sick. Her energy is amazing!
Incredible!
I would have never believed it...
For anyone out there who has a cat - to avoid the expense and suffering of a diabetic cat - switch over to canned high protein food. The carbs in the dry food is killing your cat.
Better to switch now than have to go through what my cat and I did!
No more insulin injections and no more taking blood glucose levels! Well, I will do the occasional fasting blood sugar in the am, just to keep an eye on it.
Kitty's happy!
I'm happy, too.
From what I gather by the research already done, if you catch diabetes in cats soon enough, there is 100% reversal .... which avoids the damage to the vital organs.
The catch is - to find out as early as possible and treat it.
Feline Diabetes is more common than you think. One of our tenants had a diabetic cat - and I have had two!
Hopefully cat food manufacturers will realize this and change their dry food to reflect this information - not that they didn't already know! High protein is what cats require - not corn and other carb fillers!
Save your cat before it's too late!
4 comments:
I'm a new cat owner now and I've been reading your posts on the diabetes. I've been feeding him the expensive dry stuff- Science diet, but he seems to drink and pee a lot. I just don't have any baseline to know if it's normal or not because he's my first cat. I'll be taking him into the vet soon, so we'll see.
Any dry food, expensive or not - is bad for your cat. I was feeding mine the Science diet dry stuff...that is also what I was feeding my other diabetic cat. One of the first things you notice is that your cat will drink and pee a lot. Then you notice after a few months that they lose a lot of weight. You will want to catch it early before the damage is done to internal organs. If I were you, I would change over to canned food - as high protein as you can find. It's tedious rather than the free-ranging of dry food...but it makes up for it in lack of vet bills avoiding diabetes. Any canned food is better than dry. And don't buy the type with gravy. :) Hope this helps!
with my cat the random blood sugar taken wasn't extraordinarily high, but the fructosamine blood test is what shows the true reading of the diabetes. That's the important test to have done!
Innova EVO dry food seems to be the best as far as what I have researched for cats. It's 55% protein, 24% fat and 2%fiber.
Dry foods that claim "no grain" is not good - it's the carbs that are the killer and carbs come in more forms than grains.
I presently feed my cat Innova EVO canned food: 78% moisture,9%protein,10%fat,1%fiber one 5.5oz can per day ($1.69) and one small 2.5oz can of almo nature chicken 80%moisture,17%protein,8.3%fat - per day.
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