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Originally Posted by sha123  Thanks for all your comments.
I have been told to only feed Jet, chicken and rice for now. The vet gave me some dog food in a recovery pack but he won't eat dog food. The problem is he won't eat much at all and it was usually ham. So now I'm struggling to get the antibiotics down him. I will just have to keep on trying. I suppose if he is hungry enough he will give in eventually. 
We are back at the vets next thursday for his bloods to be checked again. The vet will give us a diet then if his reading are up again. |
May I suggest you feed Jet Sushi rice, (sticky) rice?
It's lower in sodium, and it holds together well. And, if you have a food processor & process the chicken until it is very fine, and then, he will smell the chicken in every bite, and not just eat the chicken and leave the rice. That's another advantage of the sticky rice. (It binds them together.) I also cook my rice in low sodium chicken or beef broth.
No, with CRF dogs, they don't eat when they get hungry enough, like a healthy dog.
When they stop eating, you lose them.
So, you may have to force feed him a few bites, to get him started.
If he doesn't eat while taking anti-biotics, he will vomit. He may vomit anyway. But you really don't want him, not eating, while he is taking anti-biotics.
He made need a prescription from your Vet, to aid with vomiting, should he do so.
And you probably already know, but now, he will need at least 4 small meals, instead of two meals. They just can't eat enough at a meal.
Did the Vet give you a ratio of the chicken to rice?
When Sydney is eating chicken as her protein, I make it in a batch of 1 cup cooked sticky rice, 2 oz. of finely grated cooked chicken, and 2 T.'s of pureed sweet potato.
She will usually eat 2 T's at a meal.
If you want Jet to eat the dog food, you can enhance the flavor with a teaspoon of baby food beef, to a serving. (That worked with Sydney for a little while, but she preferred the home cooked diet.)
These are only my suggestions on what has worked well for Sydney.
Her appetite improved on a homemade diet, and her numbers dropped. She even regained 3/8 oz. of her lost weight.
Good Luck.
I truly pray Jet will eat.
Sheila