Hi,
I'm new to this whole forum thing so apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place or anything.
We rescued a lovely boy, Pongo, just over a week ago and unfortunately subsequently found out he had a significant kidney stone.
He went for surgery and had the kidney removed and is now recovering.
We're trying to get our head around his new dietary needs and it's a learning curve for sure. We've seen tonnes of advice saying their nuggets should be 0.3% calcium but can't find any that are actually that low (the lowest we've found is either 0.5% or 0.3-0.8 which obviously means they fluctuate which is no good) their normal food is 0.6%.
We're also concerned because he's underweight so needs to bulk up a bit but most of the fresh food that's low calcium seems low calorie too (or high sugar so they can't have too much). Usually for underweight guys we'd supplement with some alfalfa but need to avoid that because of the calcium content too.
He had a bad couple of years before coming to us and his remaining kidney already has some sediment in so we just want him to be as strong as possible so that he can live out whatever time he has left (hopefully lots!) as happily and healthily as possible.
Do you wonderful people have any advice?
Thanks
I'm new to this whole forum thing so apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place or anything.
We rescued a lovely boy, Pongo, just over a week ago and unfortunately subsequently found out he had a significant kidney stone.
He went for surgery and had the kidney removed and is now recovering.
We're trying to get our head around his new dietary needs and it's a learning curve for sure. We've seen tonnes of advice saying their nuggets should be 0.3% calcium but can't find any that are actually that low (the lowest we've found is either 0.5% or 0.3-0.8 which obviously means they fluctuate which is no good) their normal food is 0.6%.
We're also concerned because he's underweight so needs to bulk up a bit but most of the fresh food that's low calcium seems low calorie too (or high sugar so they can't have too much). Usually for underweight guys we'd supplement with some alfalfa but need to avoid that because of the calcium content too.
He had a bad couple of years before coming to us and his remaining kidney already has some sediment in so we just want him to be as strong as possible so that he can live out whatever time he has left (hopefully lots!) as happily and healthily as possible.
Do you wonderful people have any advice?
Thanks