Applaws: suitable for kidney cats?

[clarenmax]

I'm not sure about suitability for a renal diet, as by its nature its supposed to be less protein, most of the renal foods are chicken flavour as opposed to actual chicken.

However, Max gets this is a treat occasionally, its my way of seeing if he's not hungry, or just not hungry for the food he's supposed to be having 

I think at the moment getting Max to eat some food is better than none at all, so if he's enjoying it, I'd indulge him 

You can always add phosperous binder powder to it to make it a little more 'renal appropriate'?

[Mark]

I don't think PAH staff are qualified to give nutritional advice. I think it would be fine as an odd treat. Willow loves the tins of hi-life fish (not the tuna imperial) so I mix a squirt of Renalzin in for her. I don't let her have it often as I'm not sure about potassium levels which are probably quite high.

[Ela]

Gillian is quite right and Pets at Home staff should be advised that they are giving out incorrect information.

[bunglycat]

I got a free tin of it and a small pkt of the biscuits when i got some water filters from ebay .
Winston ate some of it and Smartie had some of the biscuits -the next day Smartie was sick 3 times ( which is unusual for him ) then he was ok 3 days and then sick once - i am unsure if it was the biscuits !
I find mine prefer Almo nature pouches -zoo plus does those and theres a fair few flavours.
Hope Max picks up soon .
Will send healing vibes to him and Swampy 

[Gillian Harvey]

Applaws is definitely only complementary - not complete, so PAH are wrong to say that it could be fed as the main food, but if Max is having biscuits too, then it should be fine. It was all my Sam would eat for a while, and although I knew it wasnt complete, at least I knew he was eating something. I don't know about whether its suitable for cats with renal probs, I would say doubtful as it doesnt have the correct calc to phos ratios, so would think phos is quite high.

There are some other applaws combos - i.e. chicken and pumkin, chicken and cheese, and there are fishy versions.

[swampmaxmum]

As those of you who read the health thread know, I'm having a lot of trouble with Max and getting him to eat. He was eating i/d but now won't. Tonight I opened a tiny can of Applaws chicken breast and some of it (about 1/2 the tiny can) is all he's managed to eat since early afternoon. It says complementary on the tin but at PAH they told me they thought it was ok as a main food and was ok for kidney cats as is just chicken and rice.
Does anyone know and also does anyone have the nutritional info, no of calories, is it high in salt etc? Many thanks.

I also bought him some Hi Life tuna, which he's not supposed to have much of and today a pouch of Hi Life chicken. I don't know what and if he'll eat but would that work, maybe with relenza, which is the binder my vet wants us to use?

Are there other Applaws chicken or turkey tins? thanks.