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I made the "rookie mistake" of giving my cat some Dollar store cat treats and it caused him to develop urinary stones for the first time in his life. Big mistake, especially from someone who was raised by a vet mom and who lived above a vet clinic for 2 years as a child.
After some major emergency expenses and antibiotics, my cat got better. My mom then had me get some of this S/O urinary cat food as an "insurance policy" to make sure the cat urinary blockage never occurs again and mix it into his regular cat food (which is now regular Royal Canin Feline Indoor 40, for weight maintenance). The reason I can mix this Urinary S/O food at about 20% and 80% of the regular Indoor 40 food is because my cat doesn't have stones developing in his system, this is just a preventative maintenance thing. If your own cat has serious urinary problems, you may need to go full strength on the S/O food, but talk to your vet about it.
In any case, I initially gave him the regular S/O urinary food and he started to gain some weight, so I switched him to this S/O urinary moderate calorie and it seems to have kept any weight gain at bay. :)
I am very pleased with the product and will continue to order it. My cat is not very finicky and he loves kibbles/dry food, so this has been great. If your cat is a "wet food eater", try the canned version of this product. I am very happy with the dry, as he likes it, it is low calorie, and no more urinary problems. :)
Ps. This is not intended to substituted vet advice about urinary problems. It is important to discuss your cat's medical issues with your vet. And if your cat cannot urinate, is crying, and leaking urine, that is a medical emergency. This food will not fix that, only help to prevent urinary blockages.
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I used this cat food for 5 years because it was recommended by my vet. I am sick over what I have done to my cats for those years of their lives.I have a female cat who often had urinary blockages due to crystals, and a male cat who is relatively healthy. When my female cat was getting UTI's a few times a year, I was given a few "Veterinary Diets" to try. Royal Canin was the last one, because she didn't like most of them. I knew the ingredients weren't great: they included things like corn and wheat gluten (now switched to soy gluten, I believe). But I thought it was the only way to keep my female cat healthy. And my male cat liked it enough. But over the years, my cats, especially my male cat, got heavier and more sluggish.
So for 5 years we fed them this less than good food, thinking it was the best we could do for them. Then my female cat got a UTI's again after a while, and I was miffed. I no longer thought this was the best I could do anymore. If it wasn't going to keep my female from getting UTI's, then there was no reason to give them this inferior food. I looked into exactly what it was that made Royal Canin's "SO" formula. I discovered it was largely DL-Methionine. Methionine acidifies your cat's urine, which in turn dissolves the crystals. Struvite crystals are also caused by not enough water, like from feeding dry cat food. Unfortunately, you have to know that there are two reasons that make your cats have UTI-struvite crystals (the cause of the vast majority of UTI's in cats) which is helped by Methionine, and the other kind, which can be harmed by further acidifying from the Methionine. However, if your vet has already determined that Royal Canin Urinary SO is what you should feed your cat, then it's likely that struvite crystals are the cause. But it's something you want to confirm. You can test your cat's urine using pH strips to see if it's acidic enough.
So when my female cat got another bout of UTI's again, I found in my research that DL-Methionine is the veterinary kind of L-Methionine, which is sold in many health food stores. To get my cat through her UTI, after an inexperienced vet gave me yet another round of antibiotics which I did not use, I bought her canned cat food, watered it down to increase her water consumption, and added 1/16-1/8 tsp of L-Methionine in it a day. Within a few days, she was better, and I cut out the Methionine.
Now, I was left with what to do about the cats' diet generally. I knew that cats were obligate carnivores. They do best on a grain-free, high-protein diet. More important was the fact that protein naturally increases urine acidity in cats, so a high protein diet was doubly important. Finally, cats are best on a non-dry diet to increase water consumption. Unfortunately for me, my male cat loves only dry food, and my female cat only likes canned food. So now I feed each their own diet-high protein, grain-free dry food for my male cat; wet canned food with low, "healthier" grains for my female cat, since she hated many cans of grain free cat I bought her, and it was very expensive as well. Since my male cat loves to drink water, I wasn't as worried that he wasn't getting enough water in his diet.
Within two months of this change, my male cat lost tons excessive weight and his coat became shinier. My female cat, who has always had a sensitive stomach, stopped throwing up all the time. They are nine and eleven years old respectively, and they run around like kittens, chasing and playing with each other. Also, my male cat has had a marked decrease in the amount of dander on his coat.
I feel so guilty of what I was doing to my cats for so many years, and I hope someone who reads this will try a grain-free canned diet for their cats instead of this food full of low-quality discard grains. Compared with buying Royal Canin ($$$), I think I spend less on cat food now, but I also know what I'm spending is contributing to the better health of my cats, and saves me overall on veterinary costs. I'm happy to say that my female cat has not had a UTI since, and both are in excellent health. I hope the same for your animals.
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This is expensive, but normally you need to buy it from a vet with a prescription. My cat had a severe UTI, and my vet told me to keep him on urinary SO. I did for a while, then reverted to a good pet store brand, and my cat got another UTI. So he's staying on this stuff now. My cat lost a pound on the moderate calorie formula, and has maintained a good weight since.Just the food I needed for my cats!!!! Great service, thank you so much. Recommend this seller to anyone and brand.my cat had urinary problem at times. I mix it with other brand cat food. she likes it. no give hard time to feed.
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