View Single Post Old June 17th, 2008, 02:39 PM dogmelissa's
Avatar dogmelissa dogmelissa is offline Pet Guardian Join Date:
Apr 2005 Location: Calgary, Alberta Posts: 558 Define "too high
in carbs".... Cats don't *need* carbs, but they can use them.
I'm pretty sure that unless I feed a homemade or raw diet,
there's going to be a significant percentage of carbs in the
food I feed to my cats. I found a calculator which you input the
nutritional analysis of a cat food and it spits out the actual
carb percentage - carbs are bad for diabetic cats. When I put in
the info from the Wellness Indoor, it came up with 31.1% carbs.
Their current food came in at 20.6%. So yeah, logically, there's
more carbs in the Wellness comparatively, but I'm not sure that
you can compare it just based on percentage - not all carbs are
digested or absorbed in the digestive system, specifically
comparings things like fibre to a starch. Both are considered
carbs, but fibre doesn't get absorbed, it simply adds bulk and
"roughage" to the di