[who knows what evil?]

Damn mass-market cat food...corn, corn, corn...do cats eat corn in the wild? When is the last time you had to chase cats out of your corn patch? Corn meal to sicken the animals; corn syrup to sicken the humans.

Bastards.

[Nepeta]

Damn mass-market cat food...corn, corn, corn...do cats eat corn in the wild? When is the last time you had to chase cats out of your corn patch?

I try to tell people that feeding dry cat food full of grains has been implicated in the onset of feline diabetes, and that cats do not have the metabolisms to process large amounts of carbohydrates, but I don't think a lot of people want to hear this. I will never knowingly feed a grain-based diet to a cat again.

I adopted two 5-month old kittens last month, and I intend to feed them meat-based, complete, commercial foods of high quality all their lives.

[EBH]

Atlas now gets raw rabbit. He is still diabetic but went from 8 units of insulin twice a day to 1.5 units. We don’t know how much actual damage was done by the neglect he suffered, but I still hold on to some hope he will go into remission.

[TheOldLady]

Bingo! We have a winner.

I have a cat with CRF, my Rocket, and he’s allergic to grains. I feed him nothing but Fancy Feast Classic canned food, and he has gained weight, much to our and the vet’s delight, and the progression of the disease has halted.

Fancy Feast Classics are the ones with no soy (a disaster for cats) and no grains. There are only six flavors I can give him because he’s also allergic to the questionable substance that they call “fish” in the cat foods, but he’s doing really well.

The advice to feed sick cats “science diet” and “prescription diet” that are full of soy and grains is exactly the wrong thing to do for them. It might work for omnivores like dogs, but not for obligate carnivores.

And personally, being Type II myself, I know that grains are the enemy. My FBS is in the 80’s and low 90’s because I don’t eat carbs.

Of course, all this proper eating ensures that we don’t spend a lot of money on drugs to treat our food-caused metabolic mess ups.