3 Helpful Tips for Cats with chronic kidney disease
- Ask the vet to help with meds, supplements and food.
- Hydration with wet food. Calcitriol from vet.
- NO MORE KIBBLE. A good quality canned food will slow down, if not stop or even reverse, the damage done to his system. Kibble is a salty starchy sales ploy based on human convenience, in the end it kills cats through long term dehydration. Cats biologically receive $80 of their water from their diet (raw meat), so they don't often go looking for a water source, only 1-2x a week in the wild. Quality moist/canned food meets that hydration need.
Unfortunately many pets die from this because pet food brands have extremely lenient laws on the bullshit they're allowed to put on their packaging. For example: Cats don't process plant protein, or really plant product at all (remember, cats eat grass to help them vomit). A bag of cat food will say "42% protein", but half of that protein is potato protein or pea protein, completely useless. Another example would be food grouping; the ingredients will say something like "Chicken, chicken meal, salmon meal..." so you THINK it's got mostly meat products in it, right? The next 5 ingredients are then "potatoes, sweet potatoes, tapioca, pea protein, beet pulp, potato protein..." They're all just fancy names for starches, but by breaking it down into different names they've managed to put it further down the ingredients list to fool readers into thinking there's more meat than starch, because we all know the rule of making sure the first two ingredients are meat based.
Sometime when you get the change watch "Pet Fooled" on Netflix. It's very educational on how much bullshit is really in the pet food industry. It's sad and dangerous and even our vets are unaware of it because pet nutrition is a very short phase in their training, hence why they still promote Purina, Hills and Science Diet.
- Ask the vet to help with meds, supplements and food.
- Hydration with wet food. Calcitriol from vet.
- NO MORE KIBBLE. A good quality canned food will slow down, if not stop or even reverse, the damage done to his system. Kibble is a salty starchy sales ploy based on human convenience, in the end it kills cats through long term dehydration. Cats biologically receive $80 of their water from their diet (raw meat), so they don't often go looking for a water source, only 1-2x a week in the wild. Quality moist/canned food meets that hydration need.
Unfortunately many pets die from this because pet food brands have extremely lenient laws on the bullshit they're allowed to put on their packaging. For example: Cats don't process plant protein, or really plant product at all (remember, cats eat grass to help them vomit). A bag of cat food will say "42% protein", but half of that protein is potato protein or pea protein, completely useless. Another example would be food grouping; the ingredients will say something like "Chicken, chicken meal, salmon meal..." so you THINK it's got mostly meat products in it, right? The next 5 ingredients are then "potatoes, sweet potatoes, tapioca, pea protein, beet pulp, potato protein..." They're all just fancy names for starches, but by breaking it down into different names they've managed to put it further down the ingredients list to fool readers into thinking there's more meat than starch, because we all know the rule of making sure the first two ingredients are meat based.
Sometime when you get the change watch "Pet Fooled" on Netflix. It's very educational on how much bullshit is really in the pet food industry. It's sad and dangerous and even our vets are unaware of it because pet nutrition is a very short phase in their training, hence why they still promote Purina, Hills and Science Diet.
