Is there a lower cost, quality to the science diet w/d dog food prescribed to my diabetic miniature schnauzer?
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1 My cats did not like science diet food. I love the Iams Natural solutions food...cheap at Walmart. This food has helped my cat's gray hair turn back to normal color and he stopped whining.
2 When China poisoned our pets by adding melamine to the dog and cat food....resulting in the deaths of countless animals, only one of the Science Diet line..MD...was recalled. With dog and cat food running from A-Z for both species, I would rather trust my pet's health to this brand than any other.
3 Science Diet has done well for my cat even when she was dying - we do shop it for price tho - everything at the vet's is expensive. (no, she didn't die from eating it...she was 15.5 years old). Our current cats don't like all the flavors but then we don't care much for what is good for us often too...
We went to college at Purdue University where they had a veterinary medicine school. I heard that vets promote this food mainly because of all the perks and things like equipment subsidies that are given, not because it is the best. Science W/D is not for diabetes as much as weight loss.
It is low sodium. You could make your own dog food for Turbo. See this website:http://www.caninediabetes.org/dogfood.html#anchor329627 The main component here is the exercise which it sounds like you are already giving him.
Getting him down to a fighting weight will help tremendously. The diet for him must be adheared to fairly strictly so that he will loose weight steadily. Small dogs that have even a couple extra pounds on them will feel the effects in older age.
Diabetes is all about carbohydrate metabolism. Remember that as with people it's the treats and the high card foods that stress the pancreas. Any goodies would be better off made of protein or low carb vegetables such as broccoli, my dogs love the stem portion of broccoli.
I just slice it "julienne" style for them and they like it raw. You could make your own dog food as you will see from the website (and there are others...) that I gave you. Using chicken thighs as the base protein and some brown rice can be more economical.
Buy the meat in bulk from one of the warehouse stores and freeze what you will not use. You could freeze it in serving size bags and thaw it in the microwave in quantities ready for a few days. It is wonderful that you took this special needs senior citizen into your home and hearts.
But it sounds like he is giving back a lot to you already.
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