Dog Food Recipes Kidney Disease
Does anyone have any good recipes for dogs with kidney diease?
My dog is a 15 year old Maltese with kidney disease. The vet prescribed him The Prescription Diet- K/D canned and dry food. He did not like the canned food but with the dry food, I grind it up and sprinkle over his meal. I currently cook potato, pumpkin and celery in salt reduced veggie stock and then mash it up and add white rice. I put some of this in his bowl with some diced chicken loaf. I give him the chicken loaf because it is processed and therefore low in protein. I then sprinkle the dry food over the top and mix it together. This worked well for a while but now he is tiring of it. I am reluctant to up the protein even though I know that is what he wants as the vet strongly recommended a very low protein diet.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you 
That’s a great question.
My dogs never tire of the same food being offered repeatedly so it’s a bit of a head scratcher.
You might benefit from joining some of the raw feeding yahoo groups. I joined some and you can email me if you want the names of those groups.
While you want low protein, I suspect you can cook some beef liver or heart of tongue and chop it and freeze it in containers so you can pull out one container and add a little to your current recipe to change the flavor.
ALSO… use brown rice or brown and white rice mixed.
Also, there is turkey bacon out there which didn’t excite me when I tried it so I added it to my dog’s meal and they loved it.
One of the most exciting flavors you can add to your current diet for a change of taste is some lamb. AND… if you don’t want to add too much meat, add the fat… lamb fat excites my dogs more than anything else.
Use google… search for “amount of protein in meat products” and in fish products. If something has a high protein value, use a smaller amount of it so your dog gets variety, but not lots of protein. That way you don’t drastically change your current good diet but simply enhance it. If other items are equally low in protein as chicken, use them a lot more. Look at the ingredients in the prescription diet and K/D canned and dry food to see what types of items they use. Check the protein count of wild game food to see if maybe some deer meat or something similar could be given instead of the chicken.
It’ll take some searching… but meanwhile… some lamb fat or bacon grease would be low protein and might do a LOT to improve your dog’s interest in the meal you now make. -!-
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