A new study out of JAVMA just gave you the data to justify prescribing renal diets in Stage 1 CKD cats.

Most veterinarians know the renal diet conversation. The cat is Stage 2, the creatinine is climbing, and you are trying to convince an owner to switch their fifteen-year-old tabby off the food she has eaten for a decade. It is a hard sell under ideal circumstances and an even harder one when the cat is already symptomatic and the owner is scared.