Need help with lite dog food
I need to switch wet and dry dog foods for my senior dogs. Both wet and dry need to be low in fat. These dogs are small breed so need to have a dry food with small kernels and both wet and dry have fl...
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Jazzie is 10 yr old Maltese and "new" to us. She is a rescue that we got in 11/13. She has a heart murmur that we knew about and was on 1/2 tablet 2x daily of a 2.5mg enalapril.
Make a long story short, took her for an annual on Thursday, July 31 to find out she was diabetic. Also discussed that she wasn't eating her food - started 2 days before annual. Tested her Friday and found out she had pancreatitis, so took her to the hospital to receive proper treatments. Both my vet and the vets at hospital felt she might also have cushings or a tumor on her liver. Did ultrasound. No tumor but really couldn't rule out cushings due to if tested now might show "false positive." This will come later.
Due to heart problem, possibly recurring pancreatitis, and diabetes vet at pet hospital recommended "low fat diet or lite food."
I did some research on net and found three possibilities 1) Fromm Four Star Nutritional Can 2) Weruva Human Style and 3) Simply Nurish. When I discussed these with the vet at pet hospital the only thing she said was "you never know what is in ones that are not name brand manufacturers." She just said go with a lite version of a well know brand.
I went to our pet store to become more confused. Most were 6% min of crude fat or more, no matter if for seniors, adult, "lite" etc. Well my Natures Variety Prairie Chicken and Brown Rice is that. Wet food is my concern right now. I need wet to put pills in for morning and evening and make sure they have food before administering insulin. Dry food is left out all day. I feel I can find a good dry food. Right now I use Blue Buffalo but after noticing the one I give them is 8% crude fat min, I'll change that. Any thoughts on this would be helpful also.
Hope all of this helps. I am just confused. Our Kissie who has GME, an auto immune disease and has to have chemo is also diabetic. But she is going on 8 yrs with GME and 4 yrs with diabetes and is going strong with no problems with what we feed her. Since Jazzie has heart issues I want to make this right for her. Again thanks in advance for your help.
Make a long story short, took her for an annual on Thursday, July 31 to find out she was diabetic. Also discussed that she wasn't eating her food - started 2 days before annual. Tested her Friday and found out she had pancreatitis, so took her to the hospital to receive proper treatments. Both my vet and the vets at hospital felt she might also have cushings or a tumor on her liver. Did ultrasound. No tumor but really couldn't rule out cushings due to if tested now might show "false positive." This will come later.
Due to heart problem, possibly recurring pancreatitis, and diabetes vet at pet hospital recommended "low fat diet or lite food."
I did some research on net and found three possibilities 1) Fromm Four Star Nutritional Can 2) Weruva Human Style and 3) Simply Nurish. When I discussed these with the vet at pet hospital the only thing she said was "you never know what is in ones that are not name brand manufacturers." She just said go with a lite version of a well know brand.
I went to our pet store to become more confused. Most were 6% min of crude fat or more, no matter if for seniors, adult, "lite" etc. Well my Natures Variety Prairie Chicken and Brown Rice is that. Wet food is my concern right now. I need wet to put pills in for morning and evening and make sure they have food before administering insulin. Dry food is left out all day. I feel I can find a good dry food. Right now I use Blue Buffalo but after noticing the one I give them is 8% crude fat min, I'll change that. Any thoughts on this would be helpful also.
Hope all of this helps. I am just confused. Our Kissie who has GME, an auto immune disease and has to have chemo is also diabetic. But she is going on 8 yrs with GME and 4 yrs with diabetes and is going strong with no problems with what we feed her. Since Jazzie has heart issues I want to make this right for her. Again thanks in advance for your help.