I hope you can figure out the best combination for him. Let us know how things go. Any cat food manufacturer will have already calculated the amount of carbs in their brand of cat food, Make sure you check the label, as this will give you all the information you need. We endeavour to deliver the best information possible on natural health and diets for dogs and cats. Keeping uric acid levels in check to prevent kidney disease. Pork Heart. He used to weight 8kg but now is only 5kg.
The most simple explanation of what a ketogenic diet is, is a diet that utilises fat as fuel, instead of carbohydrate. Lots of pet foods rely on carbohydrate as the major source of fuel calories, and this is driven primarily by cost, as carbohydrate is cheap, and by a mistaken belief that carbohydrates are a good source of energy. The human food pyramid has long held this mistaken belief, both promoting complex carbohydrate as the most important and substantial component of a balanced diet, and simultaneously demonising fats as being bad for health, and limiting them to a very small portion of the diet. Further complicating this has been another long held myth that saturated fats primarily animal fats are the worst kind, and that they should be replaced with vegetable based unsaturated fats. The unfortunate reality of this very un-scientific approach to nutrition in the western world has been the alarming increase in obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and sadly we are seeing this being mimicked in our domestic pets.
Low-carb cat foods contain a smaller percentage of carbohydrates than some more traditional cat foods. As obligate carnivores, cats only require a very small amount of carbohydrates in their diet, and a very high percentage of protein. Perhaps your cat has been recommended a low-carb diet by your veterinarian, for instance of they have diabetes. You may also want to try feeding them a low-carb cat food in order to mimic their natural diet more closely. We reviewed dozens of low-carb cat foods to identify the best of the best.