Yes, I need to renew my membership of Britbarf, but does anyone have any suggestions for /experience of adapting a raw diet for a dog that has kidney issues?  Said dog is a 10 year old 35kg male, otherwise in good health and still a working/rough-shooting dog. Has had blood/urine at vets and they now want to sell me a prescription diet.......I really REALLY don't want to go down this route, but if I have to then so be it, but........suggestions PLEASE??!! 

Here is a useful website - esp. on diet:  http://dogaware.com/health/kidney.html

Thats an excellent site....just to say my dog had Glommerula Nephritis as part of his AI condition. After doing some reading I wasnt happy that a diest low in protein would help him, I found this site too and decided I would continue to feed raw with some adaptations to suit his condition

His kidney values actually improved for a good few years , they did eventually fail but im pretty sure I would have lost him sooner trying to feed him mush he wouldnt eat.

I do think there are exceptions to this....if the disease is so advanced the dog is toxic then low protein mush is all you can give them

Oh and he didnt lose any weight at all in 5 years which is common when losing protein from kidneys and also feeding next to no protein

I would be careful of both a BARF diet and a prescription one as mostly the former contains too much bone (phosphorus) and the latter insufficient protein.  I had a GSD with kidney failure and I fed a home cooked diet as the prescription diets far too low in protein - additionally she was allergic to rice which at the time most kibble contained... but if you can feed rice it's a good base, I fed some sweet potato (boiled and water thrown away)... feed good quality protein but the diet should be low in phosphorus... not protein.

Chicken (with skin) legs, but no bones and breast of lamb are good, cottage cheese... it's also good to feed pure calcium (ground egg shells or the digestive tablets - Tums) NOT tablets of calcium (which include vit D).  Calcium stops minerals & vitamins being absorbed (vit d prevents this) so feed calcium with the main meal and with a smaller meal feed vit E, B and whole fish oil.  Don't feed fish liver oil.

My dog lived considerably longer than she would have done on the prescription diets available at the time.

Thank you everyone for your replies.