Canned dog food for dogs with kidney disease

[kgizo]

Hills has a recall on many foods including the k/d canned. My dog has been eating the k/d+mobility which is not part of the recall, but I’m not sure how confident I feel feeding Hills right now. Does anyone have a canned food they would recommend? Thanks!

 

[Matata]

Royal Canin has renal support food. There's no safety guarantee with any commercial product imo. There's always the option of making home made food if you have the time.

 

[kgizo]

Thanks for the Royal Canin tip. I did an online search of homemade diets and that overwhelmed me. There’s meats, veggies and rice (all I’m fine with) - but then discussion of egg whites vs yolks, use eggshells for calcium, need to add OTC vitamin supplement (so is the risk of a recall negated by this?), adding fish oil ... If you know of a good and easy to follow diet can you please point me in the right direction? I got nervous that there was so much complexity in what I read I would do worse for my dog than commercial food.

 

[Matata]

I got nervous that there was so much complexity in what I read I would do worse for my dog than commercial food.

Making homemade food can be tricky. I know more about cats than dogs but the main issue in kidney disease for both species is the amount of phosphorus in the diet. There appears to be less concern about high protein than in the past.

This website may be helpful, especially the "adding fresh food" piece where you combine foods you choose as a complement to a commercial diet. You would have to check with your vet first to determine the stage of kidney dysfunction before trying anything on your own. http://dogaware.com/health/kidneynonprescription.html

 

[whitewave]

Royal Canin is good as is taste of the wild but I’m not sure specifically for kidney disease. I’m in the car— we are going camping.

My dog elizabeth is at the vet for bloody diarrhea for a day and a half, so I was just about to search to make sure taste of the wild hasn’t been recalled.

TOTW might be too high protein for kidney issues

 

[foxinsox]

Making homemade food can be tricky. I know more about cats than dogs but the main issue in kidney disease for both species is the amount of phosphorus in the diet. There appears to be less concern about high protein than in the past.

This website may be helpful, especially the "adding fresh food" piece where you combine foods you choose as a complement to a commercial diet. You would have to check with your vet first to determine the stage of kidney dysfunction before trying anything on your own. http://dogaware.com/health/kidneynonprescription.html

You can get quite palatable phosphorus binders - my elderly cat has CKD and is being ultra picky over the recommended food. So with the vets blessing we’re topping his food with normal cat food and using the binder to help reduce the phosphorus. He’s eating a lot more now so is gaining weight finally.
Just a comment @kzigo I would trust a vitamin mix to be safer from recall than canned food - there’s less in it that can be contaminated.
I was seriously considering cooking my own food for Finn cat just to get him eating again until we got the phosphorus binder that’s working for us atm.