Here’s a listener who paid very close attention to what must have been my Freudian slip! Sadly the show is only an hour long but I wanted to put her mind to rest immediately about what to feed to a cat with kidney problems.
I listened to your show on Sept 24th when your phones were down and at the end you briefly mentioned the possibility of extending this week’s show to 2 hours. I desperately want to hear Elizabeth Hodgkins talk about the Renal Failure diet this week as I have a cat with Renal Failure who I recently took off Purina NF dry food (veterinary prescribed) and she has now been eating Wellness canned food for about 6 weeks now. Please let me know your schedule for Oct 1, as I cannot miss this show.
Thank you from Denise
Hi Denise
Oh golly, if I did say something about having two hours it was joking wishful thinking! So many listeners wish I could be on for two hours but that is WAY out of my hands – you’d have to write in to Martha Stewart radio and ask if that could ever happen. I often feel there just isn’t enough time to cover everything and get to everyone.
Dr. Elizabeth will not be on the show until October 15th but what she and I will be telling everyone is that the vet prescribed diets are based on old science and generally are not effective as claimed and often exacerbate the very problem they are intended to cure.
The best diet for kidney issues is a wet food with good protein. You can get a copy of YOUR CAT, Dr. Hodgkin’s wonderful book, right off her page on my web site – as well as read the very many blog postings and Q&A’s on my web site on this topic. Please call in this week and we can talk about it – we’ll sort your kitty out, don’t worry!
Tracie
Awesome, i really enjoyed reading your post.