Living with Feline CRF

Milo is doing ok, but I now smell his breath more, which is the smell of the kidneys not working properly. I think this would reflect in his urea blood levels. His weight is back to 5.11kg which is what it was at the vets. His healthy weight is 6.5kg. I guess the good news is that he not declining as rapidly as it was thought he might. We won't know for sure how is tracking until we get more blood work done. He seems happy enough, but is not quite as playful as he was... not recently anyway. On the whole he seems relatively stable. We continue to give him the SQ IV FLuids 100mls every second day, 0.5mls aluminium hydroxide twice a day before food (We syringe it into his mouth) and food. I sit on the floor with him to try to get him to eat.

He does have an appetite, but he does not like the renal wet food, and very rarely eats dry food. He is getting smarter at not eating the renal food. Its in little pale brown soft pellets that look just fine. I put in a bit of whiskers gravy to get him to eat, but now he just licks the gravy off the pellets. So I got some whiskers mince wet food which is 8% protein, not ideal, but he needs to eat so its balancing act. I mix that in with the renal but he has learnt to eat the whiskers around the renal, lick the gravy of the renal and I bet he thinks he is outsmarting me. He is right. But we can not let him starve. He also gets some fatty lamb - he prefers that to fatty beef, and the purpose of that is to get him some calories from the fat.