DBlain, does your dog have kidney disease? My last yorkie had chronic renal failure and also chronic pancreatitis. He required a low phos and low protein diet for his kidneys, but most of the kidney diets have high fat. He couldn't do the fat because of the pancreatitis. It was very hard to find a food that ticked all the categories he needed. I occasionally fed him the low fat gastro diet by Royal Canin, but mostly I ended up home cooking for him because the RC food isn't particularly low in phosporous. He lived 3+ years after his kidney diagnosis with only occasional mild flares of his pancreatitis on a home cooked diet. A nutritionist may be able to help you plan a diet that will work. We did that, but he tired of the same meals every day so I ended up altering a couple of kidney diets that I found online by substituting low fat items for the higher fat items in the kidney diets.
Hope this helps.
Diana |