delta1 wrote:congee sounds a little more appetizing...how about rice porridge? add some bits of chicken, green onion and cilantro...
^ I mean that's what it is... she puts a little chicken in it (because it needs to be low protein for the kidney disease) as well as sweet potato and carrots and peas.... but it's basically watery rice porridge... and it's the only thing he has wanted to eat.
When he was really sick he would eat something new, but within 24 hours wouldn't eat it any more. The vets thought he was nauseous. Apparently the congee doesn't make him nauseous, so he was willing to keep eating it. Plus it's got a lot of water so it helps get the fluids to flush his kidneys.
We tried slowly transitioning him to the kidney diet food, but once we put more than a tablespoon of it in the congee he stops being as interested in eating it.
He's put a good amount of his weight back on ... he's still a lazy miserable dog.... but he seems to be enjoying his life as much as he did before.