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Knowledge is key: subscribers learn, their dogs thrive--and we're happy!(Letter to the editor)
Your article "Diets and the Older Dog" (WDJ December 2006), asserting that kidney diseased dogs do need protein, is right on!
Before my WDJ days, I owned a Sheltie who was diagnosed with kidney disease. In the first stages he started refusing to eat. He had dropped from a lean 28 pounds to 24 pounds. I didn't know what to do so I blended his dog food in with some mixed vegetables. This appeared to work and at his next visit to the vet's office he had gained back two pounds.
However my vet recommended the Hill's k/d canned diet to me saying that low protein is better for my dog with kidney disease. Instead of listening to my gut instinct, I started feeding the food.
When I finally had to euthanize my dog due to his severe kidney failure (while religiously feeding him this diet that was supposed to help him), he died at 18 pounds with no muscle mass on his body at all. He literally looked like a skeleton with skin and fur hanging off of it.
After my Sheltie died I learned two things: listen to your gut instinct and don't listen to your vet's diet recommendations unless they go with your gut instinct. Knowledge is key and I'm just glad WDJ is around for me for the next go around when my Corgi girl grows old!
Tiffany Birkinbine
via e-mail
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