Vegan Kidney Diet For Our Dog

Finding the Right Kidney Diet for Odin
Odin is one of our beloved rescue dogs, and like the rest of our dogs, he’s been on a plant-based diet for quite a while - six years at the time of writing this (seven years for our other dog). I’m not going to get into the debate about whether dogs can or should be vegan. The science has spoken clearly on this topic already, and we’ve seen firsthand how well dogs have done on plant-based diets.  For most of those years our dogs were eating V-Dog kibble as their primary food, with occasional meals of Natural Balance’s vegan canned food mixed in. 

We don’t know exactly how old Odin is (his full history is a mystery) but we do know he’s at least 10 years old. Earlier this year, we received news that changed everything: Odin was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, somewhere between Stage 2 and Stage 3, based on his bloodwork.  That marked the beginning of a whole new journey, filled with research, trial and error, and a lot hair-pulling.

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