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I'm new to the forum, not to cat ownership. So, I'd like to open the floor to discussion on Sheba's Perfect Portions cat food, but first, a little backstory.
I adopted my cat in 2014 when she was about 2 years old, and when I got her from the San Diego humane society she was on Science Diet, and seemed to really like it. I regularly fed her an appropriate amount every day and no matter how hard she begged for more, I would not overfeed her. Despite this, she began gaining weight and at one point she had gone from around 7 lbs to 12 lbs, a marked food increase.
I tried offering her wet foods and she refused completely no matter how patient I was in transitioning her to the new food and how incrementally I did it. She was a dry food addict. So, that being said, I switched her to Hill's low calorie/diet food and I did see some minor weight loss, she went down a pound but never really less than that.
In 2015 I was lamenting on another website that my cat refused to eat wet food and I talked about the kind of food that she was eating and how much she was being fed, and pretty quickly got lambasted for feeding her Hill's. I of course, wanting to do right by my cat, switched her over to Blue Buffalo grain free which she took to very easily.
What I didn't realise though was how incredibly high of a fat content blue's foods tend to have. Opal went from 10-11 lbs to a whopping 16 lbs in about two years, and I tried every wet food under the sun (or so i thought) in an attempt to help her lose the weight, but no dice.
It sort of came to a head this year when I woke up one morning and found her laying on my floor, her tail twitching unhappily, and when I called to her she wouldn't get up. I tried to get her up on all four feet and she stood, staggered a bit, and collapsed. I took her to the vet immediately.
400$ later and the vet informed me that Opal was basically diabetic. I was crushed and felt so guilty. I started her on insulin and kept her on blue while adjusting the feeding schedule. The vet recommended I not switch her to a lower fat/calorie food because something something blah blah insulin science I don't understand, so I kept her on it while still trying to figure out SOME kind of fix for this.
A few months ago I found Sheba Perfect Portions and thought what the heck, why not? Let's give it a shot. To my amazement, opal actually wanted to give it a try. She didn't eat it exactly, she licked the sauce off of the pate loaf, but it was better than nothing, and promising. So I started slowly attempting to switch her over to wet food fullstop, and giving her no more dry kibble.
She caught on to what I was doing pretty quickly and there was a struggle and some complaining for a while, but eventually she took to it and she has now been 100% transitioned to Sheba Perfect Portions since around September, and I am seeing a DRASTIC difference.
She is now down to 13 lbs, far more active, and her blood sugar/insulin levels have returned to normal. I just took her to the vet at the beginning of this month and the vet said she looked awesome.
So I'm wondering - has anyone else had any positive experiences with SPP? I like that it has taurine in it and I'm really fond of how easy portion control is especially because opal is now hoovering it down and if given more than one packet at a time I'm sure she would make herself sick on it.
Her poops are even looking better. I'm thrilled that I've transitioned her to a better food and she's lost weight, but I'm wondering if I should just stick to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" adage and keep her on SPP, or see about trying to switch her yet again to another, "higher quality" wet food.
She is still consistently losing weight and her energy levels are going up and she is like a whole new cat. I'm just curious if anyone else can speak to the effects SPP has had on their cats.
Thanks!
I'm new to the forum, not to cat ownership. So, I'd like to open the floor to discussion on Sheba's Perfect Portions cat food, but first, a little backstory.
I adopted my cat in 2014 when she was about 2 years old, and when I got her from the San Diego humane society she was on Science Diet, and seemed to really like it. I regularly fed her an appropriate amount every day and no matter how hard she begged for more, I would not overfeed her. Despite this, she began gaining weight and at one point she had gone from around 7 lbs to 12 lbs, a marked food increase.
I tried offering her wet foods and she refused completely no matter how patient I was in transitioning her to the new food and how incrementally I did it. She was a dry food addict. So, that being said, I switched her to Hill's low calorie/diet food and I did see some minor weight loss, she went down a pound but never really less than that.
In 2015 I was lamenting on another website that my cat refused to eat wet food and I talked about the kind of food that she was eating and how much she was being fed, and pretty quickly got lambasted for feeding her Hill's. I of course, wanting to do right by my cat, switched her over to Blue Buffalo grain free which she took to very easily.
What I didn't realise though was how incredibly high of a fat content blue's foods tend to have. Opal went from 10-11 lbs to a whopping 16 lbs in about two years, and I tried every wet food under the sun (or so i thought) in an attempt to help her lose the weight, but no dice.
It sort of came to a head this year when I woke up one morning and found her laying on my floor, her tail twitching unhappily, and when I called to her she wouldn't get up. I tried to get her up on all four feet and she stood, staggered a bit, and collapsed. I took her to the vet immediately.
400$ later and the vet informed me that Opal was basically diabetic. I was crushed and felt so guilty. I started her on insulin and kept her on blue while adjusting the feeding schedule. The vet recommended I not switch her to a lower fat/calorie food because something something blah blah insulin science I don't understand, so I kept her on it while still trying to figure out SOME kind of fix for this.
A few months ago I found Sheba Perfect Portions and thought what the heck, why not? Let's give it a shot. To my amazement, opal actually wanted to give it a try. She didn't eat it exactly, she licked the sauce off of the pate loaf, but it was better than nothing, and promising. So I started slowly attempting to switch her over to wet food fullstop, and giving her no more dry kibble.
She caught on to what I was doing pretty quickly and there was a struggle and some complaining for a while, but eventually she took to it and she has now been 100% transitioned to Sheba Perfect Portions since around September, and I am seeing a DRASTIC difference.
She is now down to 13 lbs, far more active, and her blood sugar/insulin levels have returned to normal. I just took her to the vet at the beginning of this month and the vet said she looked awesome.
So I'm wondering - has anyone else had any positive experiences with SPP? I like that it has taurine in it and I'm really fond of how easy portion control is especially because opal is now hoovering it down and if given more than one packet at a time I'm sure she would make herself sick on it.
Her poops are even looking better. I'm thrilled that I've transitioned her to a better food and she's lost weight, but I'm wondering if I should just stick to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" adage and keep her on SPP, or see about trying to switch her yet again to another, "higher quality" wet food.
She is still consistently losing weight and her energy levels are going up and she is like a whole new cat. I'm just curious if anyone else can speak to the effects SPP has had on their cats.
Thanks!
because they are too high carb. Most any canned food in gravy or sauce or broth are too high carbs for diabetics, although you do want to keep some on hand to use in case your cat's blood glucose levels drop a little too low and mild hypoglycemic symptoms appear. The high carb raises blood glucose levels.
It's probably a measure to save ingredient costs for the company while at the same time increasing sales because customers now need to buy more of the product.
