crf links/how to deal with fd and crf

Spader was diagnosed with early CRF on New Year's Eve '04. He was also a diet controlled diabetic, until a dental at the end of December of '06 put him
back on the juice. I went out with Janet's food charts in hand and bought various low carb, low phos, medium protein foods and did a hit or miss approach until I came up with the magic mix he ate. The other cans stayed in the pantry just in case he got picky. I bought various flavors of Wellness, Merrick, Nature's Variety, Hi-Tor Neo, PetGuard, Pinnacle, Iams, Newman’s Own, etc.

I had been doing fluids on my own with a lot of success. The vets matched the internet prices, so that helped out a lot.
Also, I put several cups of purified water around the house and purchased a cat fountain (The Cat-It). I also added water to his canned food.

He ate mostly the low phos Friskies Special Diet flavors and FF Chicken and Tuna. Sometimes he got picky and ate all meat baby food.

I ended up adding a phosphorus binder during the last year and a half.
Here are some links:
Feline CRF Information Center
Tanya's Feline CRF Information Center
I think I memorized and printed out every page!
FelineCRF-FD Yahoo Group
FelineCRF Support Yahoo Group
These groups are awesome. Saved my butt!

Mail Order CRF Supplies
I printed out the Brico prices and brought them into the vets.

How to give subQ fluids
Feline CRF hints
Foods list by Phos
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm
Feline CRF Documents


A wonderful section of info from Feline Outreach.
Feline Outreach

 

I just wanted to say thank you for putting this list together. We just lost one of our besty's, Lil'Bit last month to CRF. He was an outside cat and I'm afraid we didn't see the signs until it was too late and even with all the care we could get, we couldn't save him. Had I seen something like this at the time it would've helped so much.

 

Sorry to hear that.

I was just getting used to Spader's FD, when the CRF dx came up. I put the list together to help folks in the same situation so they wouldn't feel so overwhelmed.