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MikeyTsi posted:I'm trying to find a low phosphorus/magnesium content food for my dogs that isn't something that's loaded with by-products, is there a list somewhere that might have this information? This is an old post so don't know if you're still following but was curious if you found something. My dog potentially has early stage renal failure and was hoping for something better than Hill's. Thank you.
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Thank you! I hadn't heard of that brand before. They have something that looks really good.
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Jul 30, 2018 01:27
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MikeyTsi posted:Note that their vet diets, like any vet diet, requires a prescription from a veterinarian. Where do you get yours? I'm in Seattle myself.
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Aug 5, 2018 00:57
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MikeyTsi posted:I order it from them. It get's fulfilled from some place in PA and they ship it. Estimate about a week for it to be delivered. I thought maybe somebody here carried it. What I'm going to do is get a bunch of different foods. It's annoying for sure but my dog gets bored if I don't switch up foods. Right now I just have a few bags of food and have something different each meal.
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Aug 5, 2018 04:53
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MikeyTsi posted:Be careful about introducing new proteins if you're going to do that, if your dog develops an allergy you need to make sure to give them a unique protein they've never had and that's really hard if you feed them a bunch of different stuff. He's 18, I don't think he'll develop any allergies now.
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Aug 5, 2018 06:12
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Bluedeanie posted:What do you guys think about "limited ingredient" formulas? My Aussir has been on a lamb and pea limited ingredient recipe from Simply Nourish for several months now and while he seems to be doing well on it, all this taurine business has me wondering if both he and my pet food expenditures might be better off on a more typical line of food. If your pet doesn't have food sensitivities or allergies it doesn't seem necessary.
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Dec 11, 2018 00:50
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Vet recommended Royal Canin regular or a prescription formula? edit: sorry just missed where you said Royal Canin Renal the first time. It might be better than the Sciene Diet K/d edit 2: what are they eating now?
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Jul 28, 2019 20:11
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Ophidia posted:at the moment they are eating royal canin renal. they dont like it very much but at least they eat most of it What were they eating before this I mean.
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Jul 29, 2019 11:20
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Ophidia posted:ah sorry. before that they were eating cats finefood Yeah, go to the prescription food. That was already a pretty good food ( looking at the ingredients of Classic chicken for example doesn't have all the bad stuff), so like mentioned you really need to get the one that is specifically low protein and phosphorus. Sometimes if you had a really bad food just switching to something good will help...but I don't think the Catz finefood would be high in ash or the other stuff that can also cause problems.
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Jul 30, 2019 21:38
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Reiterpallasch posted:So my roommate's cat (a Siberian) apparently needs to shed a pound or so, and I know very little about cats. He gets Orijen which is apparently pretty good for a dry food (at least the OP endorses it?), and I don't think it's feasible to get him wet food or use one of those rotating-tray-of-compartments-that-you-measure-yourself feeders. How accurate are the automatic feeders which claim to dispense a certain volume of kibble at programmed times? Are any of them accurate enough to be used for caloric control? https://superfeederstore.com/ Many years ago now, I used one of these, and it seemed to be accurate. It was good for feeding many small portions during the day. That kept the cat from getting hungry after a few hours (otherwise she'd eat plastic) but also from eating too much. My complaint would be that you set the portion size by turning a tiny little screw on a potentiometer, so it takes a bit of trial and error to get it right. I see there are more choices than there used to be on Amazon. Was using a battery operated PetSafe one before and it kind of sucked and broke, but I don't remember exactly how.
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Oct 23, 2019 21:41
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My personal recommendation is to only feed grain-free if your pet has a grain allergy. I have an idea. Instead of a hopelessly out of date OP let's add a list of pet stores that sell high quality food. For example: Seattle: Mud Bay, Petapoluza Bay Area: Pet Food Express
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