fd/crf... tips

HI all. It's been a while since I have been on site. Life and dealing with sick kitties has kept me away. I will try to get back to posting these links weekly.


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
Feline CRF Documents


A wonderful section of info from Feline Outreach.
Feline Outreach

Thank you so much for posting this information. I just posted questions about CRF in FD cats. My vet tells me Baxter is in the early stages. I have reading & trying to make sense of it all. I am starting to feel overwhelmed like when he was DX with FD. Knowledge always helps relax some of those feelings.

Thank you,
Jenn & Baxter cat_pet_icon

Best of luck! The great thing is that there is a lot of info out there. Spader was dx with both within about 4 months of each other so I was pretty stressed out. :0