Royal Canin dry cat food, do you have it in the US, do you feed it to your cat, any comments?

I live in the States and tried Royal Canin. I have an older cat, too, and he loved it, but apparently it’s too rich for him. He threw up every time he ate it.

By coincidence, he accidentally got locked in a walk-in closet overnight this past weekend and discovered a bag of the stuff I’d stored in there (it’s rather expensive and I didn’t want to throw it away, even though I had stopped using it). He tore a hole in the top of the bag and literally ate himself sick.

I’ll spare you the details of the clean-ups I had to do the next 24 hours.

Thanks Pachy. My cat adored the cat biscuits, she polished them off super quick and asked for more thank you very much, suffice to say she didn’t get more but is now safely ensconced on the chair which has become hers of late, no vomiting I’m pleased to say, I’m very pleased to say.

Glad to hear you didn’t have the V problem! The bag I bought was so expensive I’ve been taking a small amount out of my cat’s allowance for months!

@Pachy The 2kg / 4.4 lb bag cost $43 here in NZ.

Royal Canine is indeed at the Vets office, but not supermarkets. Have you tried Solid Gold? It’s a local grain free brand.

P.S. We are in SoCal

@Shut_Yo_Mouth I’m going to go with the Royal Canin for a few weeks and see if it helps with my cat’s mobility, it is either that or a series of naturally based injections that the vet says is very good, unfortunately it is an ongoing treatment and beyond my means, the cat food is the other thing recommended, more affordable although still relatively expensive.

We use Royal Canin’s formulation for crystalluria in cats (Royal Canin SO), but I’m not familiar with any of their other diets. It’s a high quality, highly palatable food that consistently produces results. I’m guessing that the mobility diet includes glucosamine and chondroitin, and maybe other joint supplements.

If there are no other health issues that precipitated the suggestion of a food change, you can always keep to the same food and use supplements if you’d rather not switch. Hopefully your vet told you that any diet changes should be gradual and incremental to avoid vomiting and GI upset.