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My 12 year old Sheltie has been diagnosed with Kidney Failure and we had a tough time getting her to eat, well she would eat anything at all, it was well over a week and I was desperate, through trial and error I eventually found that give her homemade chicken broth (boiled down a whole chicken in water and nothing else) she liked it and would lick it up, I then put the broth in a bowl with the prescription diet canned dog food and again through trial and error found that she would gulp down the food if I feed it to her in small pea size amounts through the front of her mouth. I held the food up so that her chin was tilted enough that she could swallow the small amount without lowering her head thus preventing her from throwing the food into the back of her mouth. This did the trick. She now eats like crazy. After 2 days I stopped putting the broth in it and served it to her from the fridge (so it maintains its shape and doesn’t get all mushy in my hands) as long as she can “tear” a small piece from my fingers she would hold her head up she ate it and now looks for more, you can imagine what a relief it was. She will always have kidney disease but perhaps now her quality of life will improve greatly and she will be with us a little bit longer. It is with great hope that this advice will help someone else to have more time with their precious pets as well.

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Hi Longlong, thanks for this story, did you have a question, or were you just sharing? :)