My dog has kidney failure and only eats salmon. What can I feed?

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what and how to feed a dog that has kidney failure and wont eat anything but cooked salmon??? She rather starve then eat anything else I offered. Hills k/d, and a/d, cooked eggwhite,

Sara Farmer, DVM · Accepted Answer

One option might be to look into a home cooked diet. A veterinary nutritionist could help formulate a recipe for you (your veterinarian could send in a referral for you). This website has a list of veterinary nutritionists: www.dacvn.org There are also many more commercial kidney diets available and sometimes dogs will find one brand more palatable than the other: you could try Purina NF or Royal Canin's various flavors of kidney diets. Finally, some dogs at the end stages of kidney failure have such a significant decrease in appetite that they are rapidly losing weight, and in these cases sometimes it is more important for the dog to eat something rather than the prescription diet. You can talk to your veterinarian and see if this might be the case for your dog.

My dog has kidney failure and only eats salmon. What can I feed?

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