I went to the vet yesterday to see about Toby's mysterious bald spots that he's developed over the last couple of weeks (see this thread: http://thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150058 ).
While there, I thought that I would get my money's worth out of the visit and ask her about the evo dry food and how much (or little) would be safe to feed to Toby. I brought the guarenteed analysis and ingredients from the bag and also printed out the nutrient analysis from EVO's website and took both with me to show her.
I was very disappointed about her response... And, I must say, that what everyone on here has said about vets knowing absolutely nothing about nutrition and getting their info from SD and other brand foods is absolutely true...
When I showed here the info, she said "wow, 50% protien, I've never heard of a food with that much protien before". Next, when asked how much I should feed him for weight loss she said...."Let me go get something for reference". I had high hopes, but then she came back with the science diet perscription feeding guidelines binder and everything went downhill from there...
I will give her points for trying, but she only gave me a vague reccomendation based on how much a high protien SD perscription diet reccomended feeding for weightloss....I think they said 3/4 cup a day of the SD formula that had only 412 calories per cup... EVO has ~612 listed and 514 or so of actual usable calories... Yet, she still said "I couldn't live with myself if I fed a cat as big as yours less than 3/4 cup of food a day." I told her that I thought cats only needed about 20 calories per lb a day for maintence usually and she said "well, you're well ahead of me on this". *sigh*
She then went on to say that she didn't mind a little extra weight on a cat, but when I replied that I thought it was better for him to loose weight because of his heart condition she said "oh, yes, it would be better for him to weigh a little less."
BTW, she also suggested that I cut back his wet food from what I was feeding to about 2tbsp a day.
Now, in her defense, she is not my regular vet (my vet was either off or out sick, I didn't ask). However, I don't think I'll be feeding Toby 3/4 c. EVO dry plus wet food a day.
Argh.
While there, I thought that I would get my money's worth out of the visit and ask her about the evo dry food and how much (or little) would be safe to feed to Toby. I brought the guarenteed analysis and ingredients from the bag and also printed out the nutrient analysis from EVO's website and took both with me to show her.
I was very disappointed about her response... And, I must say, that what everyone on here has said about vets knowing absolutely nothing about nutrition and getting their info from SD and other brand foods is absolutely true...
When I showed here the info, she said "wow, 50% protien, I've never heard of a food with that much protien before". Next, when asked how much I should feed him for weight loss she said...."Let me go get something for reference". I had high hopes, but then she came back with the science diet perscription feeding guidelines binder and everything went downhill from there...
I will give her points for trying, but she only gave me a vague reccomendation based on how much a high protien SD perscription diet reccomended feeding for weightloss....I think they said 3/4 cup a day of the SD formula that had only 412 calories per cup... EVO has ~612 listed and 514 or so of actual usable calories... Yet, she still said "I couldn't live with myself if I fed a cat as big as yours less than 3/4 cup of food a day." I told her that I thought cats only needed about 20 calories per lb a day for maintence usually and she said "well, you're well ahead of me on this". *sigh*
She then went on to say that she didn't mind a little extra weight on a cat, but when I replied that I thought it was better for him to loose weight because of his heart condition she said "oh, yes, it would be better for him to weigh a little less."
BTW, she also suggested that I cut back his wet food from what I was feeding to about 2tbsp a day.
Now, in her defense, she is not my regular vet (my vet was either off or out sick, I didn't ask). However, I don't think I'll be feeding Toby 3/4 c. EVO dry plus wet food a day.
Argh.