My name is Dr. Sarah Chen.
I am 44 years old, a veterinary nephrologist – and I'm no longer ashamed to tell this story.
At 40, I sat in my clinic wondering what had happened to feline medicine.
I was treating the same cats over and over. Kidney values that climbed every few months. Owners spending thousands on SubQ fluids and prescription food that changed nothing long-term.
I prescribed them treatments that helped short-term and failed long-term. And then my own cat – an 11-year-old Siamese – developed the same chronic kidney disease I was treating in my patients.
I tried everything I recommended to clients.
Hills k/d.
Purina NF.
SubQ fluids three times a week.
Phosphate binders.
Nothing worked. She kept declining.
One evening I called my oldest colleague: Dr. Michael Torres. We've known each other since veterinary school. He's a feline internal medicine specialist, 46, owns his own practice.
I told him the truth. And he said: "Sarah, I'm seeing the same thing in my clinic every single day."
That was the moment we decided we would no longer accept this. Not as veterinarians. Not as cat owners.
We began to research – not for clients, but for our own cats. We knew prescription food wasn't the answer. Manages phosphorus, side effects like food refusal, no gut barrier repair. We knew SubQ fluids were too superficial – they hydrate but don't seal the leaking gut.
So we asked ourselves: What if the solution doesn't treat the kidneys directly, but targets the problem at its source – in gut barrier repair that stops toxic burden before it reaches the kidneys?
We came across collagen peptides. Studies on gut-kidney axis. The connection between gut barrier integrity and lasting stabilization of kidney disease.
We developed the first version in Michael's practice. Tested it on our own cats. After 4 weeks, Michael called me.
"Sarah, my cat's creatinine dropped. For the first time in eight months, it went DOWN instead of up. His BUN is stable. He's eating again."
Six weeks later I experienced the same thing. My Siamese's creatinine went from 4.9 to 3.2. Her weight stabilized. She stopped vomiting. She started grooming herself again.
That was the moment we knew: This isn't just for our cats.
Today we stand behind Derma Paws – not as businesspeople, but as two veterinarians who went through the same thing you have. We know what it feels like to watch your cat's kidneys fail. We know what it feels like to spend thousands on treatments that don't work. We know what it feels like to ask yourself: Will my cat survive this?
Yes. They can.
Derma Paws isn't a company. It's what we would have wished for when we were watching our own cats fade away.
Stabilized values. Stopped decline. Quality time. And the feeling of having your beloved cat back – for however much longer we can give them.
We made it. Your cat can stabilize too.
– Dr. Sarah Chen & Dr. Michael Torres, Veterinary Nephrologists