Food for CRF cat

Hi all,
Is there a homemade food I can make for my cat who has CRF? I've been feeding him the wet Hills k/d and the Medi-cal Reduced protein - alternating because he gets sick of one type of food quickly. Well now he's sick of both. I gave him the k/d dry which he will eat. I'd rather not feed him dry though. I've been giving him 'normal' cat food with the dry so he can maintain his weight.

Do any of you know of any recipes? Does a CRF cat really need a food that's low in protein? I refuse to feed him purina NF so my options are pretty narrow.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Have you tried Royal Canin Low Protein Modified or Eukanuba/Iams Multi-Stage Renal? My girls love the Royal Canin, and will eat the Iams (but they're not crazy about it.) I tried these foods when Purina changed the formulation of the NF. My cats also eat the Hills k/d minced chicken canned food.

From the research I've done (I've been dealing with CRF since 2000), it appears that controlling the serum phosphorus is more important for slowing the progression of the disease than protein content. When I feed commercial regular canned food (not veterinary renal diets), I try to pick the ones with the lowest Dry Matter Analysis (DMA) percentage of phosphorus. I often add Aluminum Hydroxide gel powder (a phosphorus binder) to those foods.

Here's a link to commercial foods, listed by phosphorus content.
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm

Here's some info about phosphorus and phosphorus binders.
http://members.verizon.net/~vze2r6qt...es/binders.htm

I really know nothing about homemade feline diets or homemade CRF diets. I only know enough about feline nutrition/CRF to choose good commercially prepared diets for CRF, or modifying an existing diet with ALOH to make it work for CRF. I hope someone else can help you with your questions. I wish the best for you and your CRF cat.

Treatment and diet for CRF depends on many things ..One how the cat is doing at this moment ... Two what your vet is comfortable with ( mine aided me with homemade and then a raw diet without binders or much in the way of conventional medicine)... Three what you can do ( I was lucky that my crf girl did not need fluids often as she was not the type to allow for it )

Thanks for the advice Pookie-poo and Sharky! My vet won't even let me say the word homemade....she thinks eating canned food is natural (compared to feeding raw).

I'll ask but I'm sure I will get resistance. I will take both of your responses into consideration.