Pate style wet food that's good for Kidneys

[TheSecondMrsAshwell]

So, Ashycat hasn't been well for a few weeks and I took her to the vets last week. Several tests later and she has been diagnosed with the beginning of kidney problems.

Anyway, one of the symptoms was a loss of appetite - turned out she had a bladder infection too - but she was tempted by the pate style wet food they gave her at the vet. She likes Brussels Pate and will kill to get it (so I never have it). She normally has dried food with some fish or meat, but I understand that's not good for kidneys, so I will switch to wet (I haven't before because it makes me retch so much).

I've tried her over the weekend and it's gone well (apart from a beef mousse that I can only describe as being the shite of Satan in a tin, although Ashycat liked it). But if there's a pate food out there that's good for kidneys, tell me what it is.

It does have to be pate though. Ashycat tried cuts and flakes. Flakes were filth, disgusting and she'd sooner starve. Flakes were the dandruff off the willy of Basement cat and she wasn't touching them.

BTW, the reason it took me so long to get her to the vet was that I had Covid and we were pretty much the same.

Grain free
Natures menu
Lily's kitchen

Beaphar renal diet is a proper pate texture.

@QueenPaw

Grain free Natures menu Lily's kitchen

None of those are recommended for kidney disease

@TheSecondMrsAshwell as she has a diagnosed medical condition then you need a prescription diet for her. Is there a reason that you can't continue in the food that your vets have started her on?

Both royal canin and hills have improved the formulation of their prescription renal foods over the years and both are much more palatable and available in a variety of formulations

Just google 'feline renal wet food' and you'll find loads of options. Royal Canin, Hills and Purrina all do this kind of thing.

Apologies only saw the bladder bit!
Best check with the vets

I will add that mine won't eat Hills whatsoever so worth trying a few (I tried him on the restorative care for weight gain)

Your cat may think Brussels pate is the best thing in the world but sadly this doesn't mean she will think any form of renal food is.

Old Lady Cat has early renal disease is supposed to eat a renal diet. We tried every single brand and texture of renal cat food. She decided she would prefer death.

As she was barely eating and very underweight at the time, we decided fed was better and compromised. She eats the renal kibble, she has some milk as fluid is good, some of the least bad treats, and the wet food she had before as fed is best.

The renal wet foods are notoriously unpalatable to cats and our cat would definitely agree with this.

@AnnaMagnani

Your cat may think Brussels pate is the best thing in the world but sadly this doesn't mean she will think any form of renal food is.

Old Lady Cat has early renal disease is supposed to eat a renal diet. We tried every single brand and texture of renal cat food. She decided she would prefer death.

As she was barely eating and very underweight at the time, we decided fed was better and compromised. She eats the renal kibble, she has some milk as fluid is good, some of the least bad treats, and the wet food she had before as fed is best.

The renal wet foods are notoriously unpalatable to cats and our cat would definitely agree with this.

Not sure if you've tried them but the new hills stews are pretty good

www.hillspet.co.uk/cat-food/pd-kd-feline-chicken-and-vegetable-stew-canned

Out of the dry foods I find more cats prefer the royal canin or purina brands.

It is tricky though.

Also just an aside I know pâté is being mentioned in jest but just wanted to mention it's actually very high in vitamin A and can be toxic to cats in large amounts/fed frequently

Thank-you - Old Lady is going back to the vet tomorrow as she has colitis as well now.

She refused to eat the fibre even in microscopic amounts once she cottoned on. Left to her own devices she would live on Sheba Cat Soup and Cosmas Snackies.

What the perfect diet for an arthritic renal cat with colitis who is under weight that she would find tasty, I suspect is a very miche market

@Veterinari @TheSecondMrsAshwell as she has a diagnosed medical condition then you need a prescription diet for her. Is there a reason that you can't continue in the food that your vets have started her on?

Looking at my OP, I see I explained the situation REALLY badly. We had a limp kitty on our hands and the vet felt that we ought to deal with the infection first and get her eating before addressing her kidney problem ("they'll still be here next week.") TBH I agreed as Madam hadn't eaten much for 3 days at that point.

So I have the battle over the "nasty food" to come. Triffic.

Also just an aside I know pâté is being mentioned in jest but just wanted to mention it's actually very high in vitamin A and can be toxic to cats in large amounts/fed frequently

Thanks for this info. Yes, I found it funny when I was eating this with one hand and fending her off with the other, but now I know it's poisonous to her, deffo not letting her anywhere near it again.

@ViperAtTheGatesOfDawn Thanks, I'll look into the Beaphar, cos she really likes the smooth textured food. She's very skinny these days and I want to plump her up a bit more.

The original little 56g tins of hills k/d was a pate style so that maybe worth a try. It often gets forgotten in the mix of pouches and stews.

[quote TheSecondMrsAshwell]**@Veterinari* *@TheSecondMrsAshwell as she has a diagnosed medical condition then you need a prescription diet for her. Is there a reason that you can't continue in the food that your vets have started her on?

Looking at my OP, I see I explained the situation REALLY badly. We had a limp kitty on our hands and the vet felt that we ought to deal with the infection first and get her eating before addressing her kidney problem ("they'll still be here next week.") TBH I agreed as Madam hadn't eaten much for 3 days at that point.

So I have the battle over the "nasty food" to come. Triffic.

Also just an aside I know pâté is being mentioned in jest but just wanted to mention it's actually very high in vitamin A and can be toxic to cats in large amounts/fed frequently

Thanks for this info. Yes, I found it funny when I was eating this with one hand and fending her off with the other, but now I know it's poisonous to her, deffo not letting her anywhere near it again.

@ViperAtTheGatesOfDawn Thanks, I'll look into the Beaphar, cos she really likes the smooth textured food. She's very skinny these days and I want to plump her up a bit more.[/quote]
That makes sense.

If you just need to aid her recovery/get her eating to start with, ask your vets for hills a/d
It's pretty much crack in a tin

@Veterinari I bought 8 tins of that for getting some weight on my cat. He thinks it's the most disgusting thing ever
Me "but all cats like it!!"
Him "no thank YOOOOO"

My old boy also has kidney issues (hidden by thyroid issues so when we sorted them, the kidney problem came to the fore). We tried all of the specialist kidney trays and he won’t touch them. He lost a significant amount of weight so we are unfortunately now at the stage where any food is better than none. He’s closely monitored by the vet.

Well, I have a phone consultation with the vet this week (bloods and urine tests already been done), so we'll see what he says. what I have to do is try to weigh Madam. That's going to be interesting (I don;t have bathroom scales).

Oh, and I gave her some of the chicken I cooked on Sunday. She wouldn't touch it. Ate all her smooshy food round it.

I was like Bitch, this is freshly roasted chicken. and she was like yeah, whatevvvv.

Dcat was 12 when she collapsed with kidney failure (at 5.30am on Good Friday) she'd been having tests at vets but unfortunately she collapsed before results. She hated all the wet kidney food. I ended up donating lots to cats protection due to her refusal and our vet said it was better to get her to eat something rather than starve. She does now eat Kd biscuits and her normal food with a powder mixed in which is fairly recent - only since beginning of this year and she turns 20 next week.

God we have tried them all!
This one is a smooth mashable pâté.
Our cats prefer the Purina renal food though.

Royal Canin do a renal “loaf” in sauce which is a pate style tin. My sickly cat (who made her 20th birthday, several years after kidney disease diagnosis) ate that along with the same type of kibble. (They also do a pouch in the same range - which some kind of soft pellet in a sauce but she wasn’t keen on it at all.)

Specific is another brand that gets forgotten about sometimes.