Low phosphorus food for sensitive cat

Caleb was diagnosed with early kidney disease. All his numbers are still in range for now. (Urea 21. Creatinine 2.0, up from 1.2 a few months ago. Phosphorus down to 3. And specific gravity steady at 1.017.) He's going to be 9 next month. The biggest problem is he can't have chicken, soy, carrageenan, and possibly rice. I have been searching for low phosphorus that won't give him diarrhea. Nature's Logic beef and Merrick limited ingredient duck seem like they might fit the bill and I'm going to try them out for my next chewy autoship. I'm trying to get a clear answer from Health Extensions on their turkey and beef. They said the turkey was .49 on a dry matter basis, but since .50 is the minimum....still waiting to hear back. Anyone know of any others? He's a picky kitty and I need to rotate frequently, so this is going to be hard.

You will have to try out a few, so check the Food Chart on Dr. Lisa Pierson's web site.  There is a list of foods according to phosphorus content (lowest first), and there is an associated reader-maintained alphabetical list of the foods as well.  http://www.catinfo.org/?link=cannedfoods

There is also a site that has a more updated list of canned foods from 2014 and a few updates from 2015, vs. Dr. Pierson's site, which is excellent and has far more manufacturers, but was compiled in 2012, with only a few updates from 2014:

http://www.felinecrf.org/canned_food_usa.htm

Of course you should always double check with the manufacturer, whichever list you rely on as formulas change often.

Weruva's Steak Frites (shredded beef) is among the lower phos foods and low sodium as well, my IBD cat really likes it, I use it in rotation once in a while. Weruva doesn't use beef liver in the SF, only the vitamin supplement which also makes the phos lower.

You can also talk with your vet about possibly using a phosphorus binder - added to food and mostly tasteless. This helps lower the phos in food if you end up using something that is slightly higher than you'd like (if kitty won't eat any of the lower phos foods). Epakitin is one that seems to be prescribed by vets.

Good luck.

I'm glad @LisaMarie12 posted the link to Tanya's site: for some reason it wasn't working when I tried to get the link. The lists there are great.

I second the recommendation of Weruva's Steak Frites: our previous cat, who had kidney disease (among other things), liked it quite a bit, too. She had mild-to-moderate kidney disease and her numbers improved in her last months, when we fed her a diet of commercial canned foods with dry matter phosphorus under or around 1%.

Good luck!

Yeah, I've used that list as a starting point. The steak frites and one of the bff are the only ones on there that he could eat under .75. Bff is mostly fish though and steak frites are a little expensive. But I can use those once in a while. I've been checking the phosphorus of foods he can eat but not much luck so far. Since he's in the earlier stages my vet didn't bring up a binder and I'd like to just feed appropriate foods if possible.

Your kitty has other issues that may warrant just feeding what he can and will eat, and using a binder. It was hard enough finding stuff for Sara, she's particular about texture as she prefers pates, most of which are higher in phosphorus. I feed her k/d and also regular food. If she ends up on a binder, she ends up on a binder. More important that they like what we give them.