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I know we talk a lot about chronic kidney disease along with protein and phosphorus amounts here for cats who won't eat the prescription renal food. As we all know, it can be extremely overwhelming when your cat is diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and even more so when your precious cat won't eat the prescription food. I haven't seen a post like this before, so I hope this isn't a duplicate. I wasn't sure if I should put this in the Health or Nutrition forum, but decided maybe Health was the better option? My apologies if my thought was off base. Anyway, I thought having all of this information in one place might be helpful. Here are some resources to help you find the protein and phosphorous amounts for some commercial cat foods. This post is not intended as advice on what or what not to feed your cat. I am not an expert and I often feel like I barely understand the needs of CKD cats. So again, I will be clear, I am not offering advice on what you should or shouldn't do with your cat. This post is intended purely for informational purposes. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.
There are also some commercial cat food websites that offer this information on their own already.
I have also attached four PDFs:
I know we talk a lot about chronic kidney disease along with protein and phosphorus amounts here for cats who won't eat the prescription renal food. As we all know, it can be extremely overwhelming when your cat is diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and even more so when your precious cat won't eat the prescription food. I haven't seen a post like this before, so I hope this isn't a duplicate. I wasn't sure if I should put this in the Health or Nutrition forum, but decided maybe Health was the better option? My apologies if my thought was off base. Anyway, I thought having all of this information in one place might be helpful. Here are some resources to help you find the protein and phosphorous amounts for some commercial cat foods. This post is not intended as advice on what or what not to feed your cat. I am not an expert and I often feel like I barely understand the needs of CKD cats. So again, I will be clear, I am not offering advice on what you should or shouldn't do with your cat. This post is intended purely for informational purposes. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.
- Tanya's Comprehensive Guide to Feline Chronic Kidney Disease is a great resource and she has a good section on her website with some foods listed. This website can be overwhelming to some people (like me). If you're like me and find it overwhelming, I would recommend just reading a little bit at a time and give yourself lots of breaks. You don't have to know all of this information right now. It's ok to learn this information over time and I give you permission to take as much time as you need to learn about CKD in cats.
- Here is a Google Sheets that is maintained pretty regularly by the person who created it. I think it might be from the Facebook group, but I do not have Facebook, so I can't tell you where it actually came from. If someone knows, please feel free to let me know. There is quite a bit of information in here and this spreadsheet was where I started when I couldn't get my cat to eat the prescription foods.
There are also some commercial cat food websites that offer this information on their own already.
- Hills has this information listed on their website. To find these amounts, you have to go to the food you want to look at and then scroll down to the "Average Nutrient and Caloric Content" tab. The protein and phosphorous and other items are listed on a dry matter basis.
- Weurva has all of this information on their website on an as fed and dry matter basis. To find these amounts, you'll want to go to any food in the food line you want to look at and scroll down to "view product nutrition info," then scroll down and click on "Detailed nutrition information." You'll find what you're looking for in a list of all of the foods in whatever specific line of foods you're looking at. They also have a low phosphorus line. As a side note, it is listed as "not a complete food" due to the requirements on phosphorous. However, the food is complete in every other way except for the phosphorus amounts.
- There are several companies that are pretty responsive to emails about these requirements. I've found that Tiki Cat, Wellness and Merrick are fairly fast at responding via email.
- You can sometimes find your answers on the "questions and answers" section on a specific product the Chewy website. HOWEVER, I have found that Chewy's answers can often be incorrect or sometimes they have multiple answers with different amounts, so I would recommend contacting the pet food company directly if you are in doubt or if you want to be certian you have the correct numbers.
I have also attached four PDFs:
- One that I created with information that I just received today (March 10, 2023) from Purina. It has some various Fancy Feast flavors listed. I attempted to get them to just send me a list of all of their foods, but they asked me to specify. So, I chose some that I have fed my cats (mostly the gravy lovers and grilled varieties), but I did add some pates on there because I was hoping to find one to try with my cat. As a side note, Purina takes their sweet time answering these email requests. I think it took them about 2+ weeks to get back to me.
- The second PDF is one that Tiki Cat sent me in 2022 with the foods I requested (all of their mousse varieties).
- The third are the amounts directly from Royal Canin on their prescription renal food. I requested this so that I could have a guide on what prescription foods had as their protein and phosphorous amounts.
- The fourth are amounts directly from Purina in March 2023, this is for their wet EN Gastroenteric food.
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