Hello,
I recently had a check up for my cat, Agnes', including urine and blood panel, after she had a nasty stomach virus. Agnes is 7 years old, she'll be 8 in January... At the time of illness (vomiting and diarrhea) everything looked normal for her except her creatinine level was at 2 (ref 0.3-1.6). She recovered from her stomach virus and has been back to normal ever since, but I got follow up blood and urine panel and her creatinine level is now at 1.9, which my vet says is still abnormal. Everything else for Agnes looks normal besides her creatinine level... indicating the beginning stages of chronic kidney failure. My vet suggested modifying her diet and I wanted to check here to see if anyone has any insight.
Right now Agnes gets wood food: Weruva/BFF brand pouches twice a day (with a bit of filter water mixed in) and free dry food: Call of the wild or Nature's Variety Grain free turkey/duck flavor.
My vet suggested cutting back on protein a bit, with lowered phosphorus... maybe switching to a senior food or kidney specific food. Agnes currently loves the foods she eats so I'm sad to upset her and take those away... I also have 4 other cats so I'll have to find a way to give Agnes a different food than them, unless there are foods that would be healthy for everyone to eat??
What are your thoughts? Could you recommend any brands of healthy-kidney foods? Should I switch the foods I'm currently feeding Agnes? I read that Halo Spot's Stew could be a good food for CKD cats.... should I switch her dry food to that?
Thanks in advance!
I recently had a check up for my cat, Agnes', including urine and blood panel, after she had a nasty stomach virus. Agnes is 7 years old, she'll be 8 in January... At the time of illness (vomiting and diarrhea) everything looked normal for her except her creatinine level was at 2 (ref 0.3-1.6). She recovered from her stomach virus and has been back to normal ever since, but I got follow up blood and urine panel and her creatinine level is now at 1.9, which my vet says is still abnormal. Everything else for Agnes looks normal besides her creatinine level... indicating the beginning stages of chronic kidney failure. My vet suggested modifying her diet and I wanted to check here to see if anyone has any insight.
Right now Agnes gets wood food: Weruva/BFF brand pouches twice a day (with a bit of filter water mixed in) and free dry food: Call of the wild or Nature's Variety Grain free turkey/duck flavor.
My vet suggested cutting back on protein a bit, with lowered phosphorus... maybe switching to a senior food or kidney specific food. Agnes currently loves the foods she eats so I'm sad to upset her and take those away... I also have 4 other cats so I'll have to find a way to give Agnes a different food than them, unless there are foods that would be healthy for everyone to eat??
What are your thoughts? Could you recommend any brands of healthy-kidney foods? Should I switch the foods I'm currently feeding Agnes? I read that Halo Spot's Stew could be a good food for CKD cats.... should I switch her dry food to that?
Thanks in advance!
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