There are other pre-made diets that you can buy if you are interested in any of those (they arent Hills or RC).

I give my dog a mixture of things - dry, wet, cooked and raw. She gets:
cooked dark chicken meat (so leg not breast)
raw minced pork and beef
tripe
tinned tuna
cooked cabbage/courgette/sweet potato/butternut squash/green beans
pasta
sticky rice (this has the lowest phosphorous content of all rice)
Hills k/d dry
Burns dry (the one thats 0.7% phosphorous)
Robbies Holistic renal dehydrated
Hills and Royal Canin wet
Nutriment low purine and phosphorous raw

She only gets coconut oil and salmon oil as extras. If I give her salmon oil I also give her a vitamin E capsule as the former depletes the latter.

 

There are other pre-made diets that you can buy if you are interested in any of those (they arent Hills or RC).

I give my dog a mixture of things - dry, wet, cooked and raw. She gets:
cooked dark chicken meat (so leg not breast)
raw minced pork and beef
tripe
tinned tuna
cooked cabbage/courgette/sweet potato/butternut squash/green beans
pasta
sticky rice (this has the lowest phosphorous content of all rice)
Hills k/d dry
Burns dry (the one thats 0.7% phosphorous)
Robbies Holistic renal dehydrated
Hills and Royal Canin wet
Nutriment low purine and phosphorous raw

She only gets coconut oil and salmon oil as extras. If I give her salmon oil I also give her a vitamin E capsule as the former depletes the latter.

Lots of info here. My worry is to get the protein low enough and provide all vitamins.

 

I believe cottage cheese has salt in it and therefore I would say needs to be avoided.

Every morning I feed a 'complete' option so usually the Hills k/d, and then evening meal is either cooked, raw or the complete Robbies Holistic. It makes me more confident that she is getting at least one meal containing everything she needs.

 

I believe cottage cheese has salt in it and therefore I would say needs to be avoided.

Every morning I feed a 'complete' option so usually the Hills k/d, and then evening meal is either cooked, raw or the complete Robbies Holistic. It makes me more confident that she is getting at least one meal containing everything she needs.

I will check the cottage cheese ingredients. I'm also thinking of a specialised food in the morning and home-made evening meal - especially as Benji asks for his breakfast about 6am!

 

I always go out to work before 7am and have to get her breakfast ready so my mum can give it her at 8am (her mealtimes are specific and worked around her thyroid meds which are also specific) so it has to be something simple i.e a complete food.

If you are thinking of any prescription wet food the Royal Canin is far better than Hills in terms of texture, smell, palatability etc.

 

hello. i had a little bitch who had kidney failure and i managed to keep her alive for almost 2 years with a home cooked diet. i did of course have the full support and advice of my vet.
i had tried the commercial completes and she ate some with relish for 2 weeks and then refused it so i had little choice but try to work out a diet myself.
i used hyperdrugs 'vet and pet nutri drops' which were highly palatable to her, and i also gave her 'easipill kidney support which is a calcium carbonate phosphorus binder.