Shih Tzu's question about Increased Appetite

Question

my dog was recently diagnosed with kidney disease and she seems to be hungry all the time she is losing a lot of weight. I am feeding her white rice white meat boil chicken and sweet potato she will not eat any  Hills kd food at all

Accepted Answer

I'm very sorry to hear about this diagnosis.
Hills K/D and other renal diets are notoriously bad tasting and many dogs need a lot of encouragement to eat them. Consider adding some warm water or mixing in a topper of chicken / fish.
Ideally, we would try hard to get her losing kidney food as we know that this is proven to be the most effective way to keep kidney disease at bay; even better than any medicine.  Consider an alternate flavour, e.g. the renal diet from Royal Canin.
It is unusual for a dog with kidney disease to have an increased diet and we usually find our patients struggle with poor appetite. I would want to rule out any other issues such as parasites, a malabsorptive disorder or cancer. 
If she has runny stool or vomiting we should provide medicine to control this as this could be leading to the weight loss.

Increased Appetite in Dogs