Monday, August 23, 2010

Disco 'n Nulo...Week Two, Up 1 oz!


OK, don't get discouraged, Disco. We are only 14 days into your 90 day get 'Simply Fit' program and your purrsonal trainer, well...she is certainly not keeping up her end of this campaign by 'Working Out' with you!!

Oh, sure...she tells everyone that you plop yourself in the middle of the hallway like a huge jellybean, and watch her get ready for work in the morning, while everyone else without a 'weight problem' scampers up and down the stairs with ease! She says she knows without exercise, even your purrsonal trainer can't lose the 15# of pooch she's got, either!

So, does she want you to succeed? Yes! In fact, she contacted Nulo to talk about some of the problems she was having with you 'accepting' the canned variety, as she really wants to have all the Furrydance kitties on a primarily canned food diet since Brighton had his bout with the urinary tract blockage. And she knew she'd never been able to get you to lose weight on dry food before.


And guess what?! The CEO of Nulo, Michael Landa , wrote back to her, answering every question she had and including charts and information she could give to her vet and to other people who wanted to know more about Nulo! She had read on another cat food website, that meals were bad, bad, bad and made up of 4D meats. She was pretty sure Nulo was getting their meals from good sources, but it felt really good to have Michael explain it to her, and even he said he was disappointed in the scare tactics this other 'premium pet food' was using (hint, hint...it has 'Stew' in it's name).

He told her Nulo uses Chicken or Salmon meal, naturally preserved. It is the highest quality meal, it is USDA inspected and iced down immediately after cooking the fat and water out. It is the type of meal Nulo purchases for all of its dry foods. It is an extremely concentrated, high-quality protein source which is essential when extruding dry foods for keeping the amount of animal protein high throughout processing. Yay, Teri thought!!

And when she told him she might add some Fancy Feast to the Nulo canned to get Disco to eat it, he told her he's looked at the Fancy Feast recipes, and the first 6 ingredients (~60-70% of the recipe total) are Turkey, liver, meat by-products, turkey broth, poultry giblets, artificial and natural flavor. And to notice that meat by-products is one of the major ingredients falls into the bottom tier of the pyramid above (Meat & Bone Meal). This product does not meet Nulo's quality standards – by-products and artificial flavors (chemicals) are not great ingredients.



Nulo canned food contains: Turkey, Turkey Broth, Chicken, Beef Liver, Tuna…These are all named meats and it is a much healthier food for my cats. Disco's poor excuse for a purrsonal trainer had to giggle when Mr Landa told her 'If I ask a 7-year old whether he’d rather eat a can of Pringles, or a chicken breast, which do you think he’d select? The artificial flavors and colors of Fancy Feast may be swaying Disco a bit. We’d suggest cutting him off of Fancy Feast. Your cats (and I’m being completely serious) are the first cats that have not been ‘crazytown’ over our canned foods. Perhaps giving them both options is causing a neo-phobic reaction (some cats are simply afraid of new things). We had one blogger who’s cat wasn’t taking to the dry food, and after making it his only option, he slowly took to it, and now eats it up. And will be all the healthier for it.'


So...the Fancy Feast I have on the shelf is going to Mama Katz, TomTom and an occasional raccoon and the Disco will have to understand I have his best interests at heart! And if she doesn't want Disco to be another ounce heavier at his next weigh-in, she better be putting those new cat toys to use and waving them around for Disco to chase, right?!! And she unearthed the laser pointer, too...maybe he'll get excited about that!


Ps: The other Furrydance kitties get to eat Disco's 'leftovers' and they are all wild about both varieties of the dry food--HipHipHooray! The canned...well, maybe all they want is a lick or two, but that's OK. I am hoping with time, they will be happy with the change and she knows they will be the healthier for it!

17 comments:

  1. Oh, Disco! You sound like a lot of humans, who go on diets and then put weight ON! At least it sounds like your human is working hard to get you on track.

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  2. When Mommy switched us from kibble to canned, a couple of us had MAJOR rebel hissy fits. She sprinkled crushed kibble on the canned to jump start us eating. It took almost a month before we ALL were happy with canned food...AND, we lost weight! Also, a few of us used to turn our noses up at chicken breast, and other cooked meats...not anymore! We like eating real meats, a lot!

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  3. Yes, the Woman keeps trying to get me to eat raw foods as they are supposed to be better. Oh and we are in Washington. It depends upon the vet whether they will sell you prescription diets if you don't have a prescription--it's not an illegal thing but the vets like to ask. Smaller ones won't. But I'm eating something much better for me.

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  4. Diets suck. But canned sounds much nicer than kibble. We eat BOTH. And treats.

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  5. Best of luck, Disco; it's not easy, but we know you can do it!!...Happy week, sweet friends...xoxo...Calle, Halle, Sukki

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  6. Poor Disco - it is so frustrating to gain weight when you are on a diet! Our mom has been trying for a long time to find a food that Tasha doesn't overeat on - she turns up her nose at some things at first but when they are her only options, she ends up liking them too much!

    We hope you will like the canned food enough to eat as much as you should, but not enough to gain weight.

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  7. Good luck Disco. We know you can do it!!!

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  8. Remember Disco a moment on the lips and a life time on the hips.

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  9. Disco, we wish you good luck with that diet. It sounds like that new food is really good for you. We have heard for years that the canned food is so much better than the dry food for you health. Mom is bad and feeds us both. But here, it is a question of green papers.
    Have a great day and thanks for visiting our blog.

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  10. Wow!I think I could be a jellybean in the middle of the floor...not that I'm sayin' anything about MY weight.No, not at all.

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  11. Even though diets suck big time, we hope it works for you! Your mom just wants you to be in the best health possible!

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  12. I hate diets. Mommy was going to put me on one (I have weighed 10.4 for 2 years) but gave up the minute I sat in the kitchen looking pitiful and asked for my foods!

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  13. We hope your diet works Disco. Mum was not pleased when she saw I had put half a pound back on during the two weeks they were away.She suspects I may have been getting more treats than I should have.
    Eric

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  14. Disco...sounds like you are in perfect, loving hands!! We know that you will succeed with support like that!! Good luck and know that we are thinking of you!! Enjoy those good vittles!! Purrs, Lautrec and Tiny

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  15. Hmmmmm... Being put on a diet AND gaining weight simultaneously seems a little odd, Disco. We must admit that our first reaction to the name "Nulo" was a bit dubious since "Nul" means "useless" in French....

    Good luck, Buddy!

    Purrs,
    The Chans

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  16. We should get some of that Nulo food. Mom is a healthfood FREAK - well, not for HER, for US we have to eat healthy while she downs frozen oreos after dinner

    bonks to you Diskers - high paws!

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  17. @ Hannah and Lucy's comment


    BAHAHAMEOWMEOWBONKBONK

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