Feeding a CRF cat     Member Since Purred: Tue Feb 19, '13
2:48pm PST  My beautiful 19 year old K.C. was diagnosed with CRF
and Pancreatitis in December. Since then it has been an uphill
battle getting him to either gain or maintain weight. He has
daily SubQ hydrations and HATES the kidney formulas but will
tolerate the Hills Dry renal at a push but since hydration is an
issue dry food is not really a good option. I have researched
wet foods and called the manufacturers to get dry matter values
and found that by my calculations some of the Hills Science Diet
foods, Wellness pouches (some varieties) and Solid Gold are the
lowest in phosphorous but a little higher in protein. Didn't
really matter. K.C. would eat them for a day and them just give
them a cursory lick the next. End result was weight loss and
this is not good as he was back down to the original weight when
he was diagnosed. His numbers are better than when diagnosed but
he needs to gain weight so I abandoned my search for a
"healthier" wet food and