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There a low phosphorus supplement to add to raw muscle meat available in Europe: Felini Renal Not sure how easy it is to get in the US though.

Rabbit goes well with Venison. Neither of my cats like poultry so I feed them primarily rabbit and/or venison.

I'm UK based and the options for commercial raw cat food are quite limited but if you start googling raw dog food the options increase dramatically. You just have to have to make sure they're veg free and are in the right 80-10-10 proportions. And you can just add a few supplements like fish...

If it contains Propylene glycol then that is very bad. Its very toxic to cats, worse than the nicotine. Even the vapour can cause feline asthma but ingesting it can cause acute renal failure. I vape and only use vegetable glycerine juice and only vape when standing at my back door.

Try and get a copy of the results if you can. I wouldn't feed her renal food, it's very low in protein and she'll lose muscle mass. And it's too low in phosphorus for a healthy cat and overall not great quality. The best preventive diet against kidney issues is an all wet diet.

I can understand your don't want to feed raw food because someone made a bad batch and not everyone has the time to assure quality by making it themselves, but I don't get why you want to get him off the wet food he's currently happyily eating. All I can do is point you towards some information...

Raw egg yolks are an essential part of a homage diet - they're nutrient bombs. There's different thoughts on including the egg whites - most don't. I'm not sure why cooked egg whites would be added. If they were happily eating it before you added the whites it may be better to make another batch...

Nature's Menu is one of the best foods in the UK. They can't describe it as complete and balanced unless it is, otherwise they have to describe it as complimentary. They don't necessarily need to add vitamins seperately because they exist organically in various organs - a mouse in itself is a...

It's really very troubling the extent to which the pet food companies control literally everything and essentially regulate themselves. It's why I personally chose to reject it entirely and go down the raw food route.

Ideally it's best for the vet to take a urine sample directly from his bladder, it has to have some in there though when he's at the vet . The advantage of that way is that it's sterile and can be sent to be cultured to determine if he has a UTI. If you can only one from home that's still useful...

All I can do is pass on my previous experience and let you make your own choice. My first two cats were like this - preferred dry food, never drunk and only licked up the gravy of the wet food I gave them. They died of kidney disease aged 9 and 10. Personally I think if you have bad drinkers...

Dry food is usually coated with a flavouring called Animal Digest, which cats kind find of addictive. It's like kitty crack. It's always the risk of you feed dry food as any part of their diet that they'll end up rejecting the wet because they want another fix of kitty crack.

I absolutely agree with this. Vets seem increasingly liberal of using it without determining if it's really necessary and oblivious to possible side effects. It hangs around in the body for upto a couple of months, a long time if the cat has a reaction to it.

Yes, something is severely impairing her kidney function so her urine is likely very dilute so basically water is going in one end and straight out the other.

I'd keep her on the iv fluids, sub qs are not nearly as effective as IV fluids, which is fluid directly into the vain. In the event she injested a toxin you want it flushed out of her as soon as possible, which is done by have as much fluid as possible flowing through her kidneys.