Help, I need some information please ...

[Jackie D]

Hi,

we used Hills w/d with Casper (he was diabetic) but we were injecting him as well, he had lost weight but did like the hills and it seemed to be OK for him.

Good luck
xx

[PennyLineker]

Thank you all so very much for coming back to me.  I just want to say what a wonderful bunch you all really are, i am really touched and so grateful for all your advice and help.  Thank you thank you thank you.   

Penny is absolutely fine.  She does not really know what is going on bless her, its her mum thats going a bit crazy!  The vet has put her on Feline MD but its a low calorie diet because its used to treat obese cats which develope diabetes.  Penny is so small is amazing.  The thing is she has food down all day and she eats when she is hungry.  I then give her what i call her 'posh pukka tucker' when i get home from work as a little treat.  She geneally drinks the gravy and maybe the odd lump will find its way in, but generally she does not have a big appetite at all, so i am going to have my work cut out trying to get her to eat more, hence why i want to be able to keep the diet and meat selection varied, and hopefully it will be so exciting she will woof it down.

I will keep you all posted, but thank you again.

Natalie xxxx

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

Zooplus give nutritional info on all their products.

I did a search on "diabetic" http://www.zooplus.co.uk/ask?query=diabetic&form=search

and high protein  http://www.zooplus.co.uk/ask?query=high+protein&form=search

If you click on the pics it brings up the nutrional info.

[CurlyCatz]

Also have a chat to your vet about a higher fibre diet too as this often helps to avoid blood sugar spikes 

Hills w/d used to be used for diabetics but thats a lower fat food too so maybe that combined with extra protein sources ?

[swampmaxmum]

This is all really interesting. My maths again fails me though - I can't follow the nutritional breakdown of gs per 100gs etc - are these foods (Applaws or fresh chicken based foods) high or moderate in phosphorus please?

[Gillian Harvey]

There are quite a few sites about feline nutrition/raw feeding, heres some that might help:

http://www.rawfedcats.org/
http://www.catnutrition.org/index.php
http://www.catinfo.org/ (this site is written by vet Lisa Pierson)

This is a supplier of wild rabbit meat online
http://www.woldsway.co.uk/ but you can buy meats from supermarkets, butchers, farmshops etc - I would feed organic/free range if you can afford it. Morrisons do packs of fresh turkey thigh pieces (not organic/free range) but they are always popular with my lot!

I don't feed much fish, but sometimes give mine Youngs salmon fillets (frozen - from Sainsburys) as an occasional treat, or coley fillets (I find mine like coley better than cod) and some of them love the little whitebait fishies which you can buy frozen.

[Dawn F]

Gillian is quite good on her nutrition - she is starting her new job this afternoon so might not be around until later but I think she is very into raw feeding

[Corporal Smokey]

I would've thought Applaws would be pretty good http://www.mpmproducts.co.uk/ . Their food is just meaty goodness, for example the chicken one is 75% chicken, 1% rice and 24% water. There are nutritional breakdowns on their website too.

Sorry if that's not much help, I'm not too up on diabetes

[Dawn F]

can't help Natalie but as you have found out there is bound to be someone who can!  Hope things are going ok

[PennyLineker]

The vet has said that I can supplement my cats diet with pure protein, fish and meat.  I want to give my cat a varied diet and wondered if anyone knew of a website or where i can get information on how much protein and what protein (i.e. meats) are the best for my cat.  She has been diagonised with diabetes but not to the degree of injecting her with insulin, we are controlling it with diet, but at the same time trying to put weight on her, as there is hardly anything of her.  She does not eat much so I am really going to have to tempt her with some tasty morsals.  Any information will be very greatly received.

Many thanks

Natalie