Recently my boy cat was diagnosed with diabetes, when he was first diagnosed I immediately switched him over to the diabetic diet my vet recommended. Since I was recently injured at work I’ve had minor financial troubles and couldn’t immediately start him on insulin. Now that he’s on insulin and immediate danger is out of the way I want to get him back on a rotating diet. His vet has recommended a couple different options but unfortunately since my boys diagnoses he’s grown extremely picky.
We’ve tried the Purina Pro Plan DM Veterinary Diet, along with the Royal Canin Glycobalance. He seems to really like the RC dry food, but not the wet food and it’s the complete opposite with the DM diet. The vet was really adamant that my cat didn’t have to just stick with the vet diets, especially if he wasn’t a huge fan over them as long as they stayed in his food rotation. He would much rather him eat something that he liked as long as it was high protein/low carb so when I gave him his insulin he had a full tummy.
Now normally I wouldn’t come to reddit with this problem, I’d just do some research and find a couple different options but along with my boy being just diagnosed with diabetes, my girl cat start having seizures. When she had her first one I rushed her to the emergency vet, we did bloodwork, everything looked fine so they sent me home told me to keep an eye on her. She was fine for a couple days but then had another seizure, thankfully this one didn’t last as long but because she did have another one the vet recommended starting her on phenobarbital. Since she’s started it she hasn’t had another seizure. Now on top of me having to give her a liquid medication every twelve hours, and find a way to do it without traumatising her, I’m trying to find a food both her and her brother can eat without causing issues for the other.
My vet highly recommends keeping them on as similar diets as possible bc their entire lives they’ve eaten the same thing and anything my girl didn’t finish my boy would. Both my vet and I would prefer not to stress them out even further with massive behaviour changes to their lives, that have been allowed for years, on top of the medication.
If anyone has any suggestions I’ll gladly take them!