carbs, fat & calories oh my!

I have researched canned, raw & dry food now for many years. I still don't understand everything but I did learn to keep carbs at 10% or below. Ok easy enough. I have fed my cats according to this standard for the last 3 years & one of my cats is a fatty. So then I'm told calorie content is more important when it comes to fat cats. I guess fat content doesn't matter much.

I switched over from Natures Variety Instinct to Weruva (all non fish flavors) at the end of Aug, I also started feeding raw & now it's a chore to get anyone but one, to eat any canned. I still leave a can of food out at night so they have something to eat on. People told me NV is a high fat food, ok so this whole time I was focusing on carbs, which I did right but she still got fat because of the high fat, now I'm supposed to find a low cal food or a low fat food?

Most companies only list the main components (protein, fat, fiber, etc) to figure out carb content, is there a way to figure out calories? It's easy enough to find a low fat food but if I'm supposed to deal with calories now, I don't know how.

thanks

I had to search a while, but I found a great resource for calculating calories in food, wet and dry, and calories requirement for my cat.

http://www.pfma.org.uk/calorie-factsheet

I used that to calculate calories in every type of canned food that he gets, so I know how much to feed him. It's a little dense to understand at first, but it explains everything.

Let me know if there is something I can explain more, or if you need anything else.

merci Lyzzie!

I will read that when I get back from the Dr.

Have you seen these charts?

http://www.petobesityprevention.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Cat_Canned_Pouch_Foods.pdf

http://catinfo.org/docs/FoodChartPublic9-22-12.pdf

only Dr Piersons, I've looked at it so much I have part of it memorized. It's so old, I gave her information a couple years ago & saw she updated the list but a lot of the varieties are not even called what they're called on the list. I was going to update that part as well & send it to her but it's a lot. They change formulas so often, when you're on A, by the time you get to M, you have to go back to A & change something. I can't deal with it by myself. But if I look at the calorie section, what column do I go by? I mainly looked at the DM carb column to see if my numbers matched hers & a lot of them don't which is something else I don't understand. I contacted every company & asked specifically for DM numbers, I don't make calculations if I can help it. NV isn't even on the other list.

It's kinda late & my brain isn't in soaking up mode. I will look over all this stuff tomorrow. I glanced at the other list, there's stuff on it that's not even made anymore. I looked to see what the lowest numbers were, so if I use EVO 95 Chicken & Turkey as an example, that calorie according to the chart is 38. If I take the TA numbers off their website I get 3.5% carbs. So the calories are low & the carbs are low. Makes sense.

What I'm getting confused about, is when I see low calorie, higher carbs, higher fat. I'm brain dead, I'll look over everything better tomorrow. Good night!

msserena - this sounds like a question for the expert nutrition forum with Dr Rachel Boltz. She's much better placed to shed light on this than we are :winkblue: