Royal Canin Fit 32 Dry food, friend says this brand is rubbish 😡

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Got our cat from the RSPCA 10 years ago he was on RC kitten food as he got older we stuck to that brand. He has fresh chicken or tuna on a weekend and lots of water. Never any problems.

A friend today said Royal Canin is rubbish and she said she had read somewhere that it wasnt very good.

Anyone comment on this?

Two of mine are on RC for health problems - one urinary and one gastric allergies. They're both getting older, but are fighting fit. They've been on RC all their lives - 10 and 11. People are bitchy about RC, but the vet says it's fine and it's certainly helping mine.

I don't know about cat food, but my dog had Royal Canin dachshund food all his over 16 years and was very healthy on it,

That's what I thought, it's fine!

Rubbish how?

Probably saying its rubbish as it doesn't contain a lot of meat and is full of cereals and other fillers. Cats are carnivores so they should eat a meat based diet without cereals.

Tbf it is kind of rubbish, and the price of it makes it expensive rubbish at that! For basically the same cost you could get Eden cat food which is 85% meat/fish and not bulked out with wheat and maize.

You might as well just get supermarket own brand cat food as RC stuff.

Mine have thrive dry and vets kitchen dry food. Both high meat content and no grains (and cheaper that RC)

Mine can only eat the RC though as it's for health issues. The other brand ones for the same health issues have the same ingredients. Yes it's not super meat heavy like the premium brands, but it's fine if there's no alternative for the health issues.

It's better than Iams and the supermarket foods.

Feed it alongside a premium wet food if possible.

IMO the two most important things are that they eat it, and you can afford it.

He seems happy and healthy enough. But might give him more meat

Yeah I mean it's fine. Cats survive happily on much worse. But for a general maintenance food it is grain heavy for an expensive food. I'm another that feeds an 85% meat/fish content dry food alongside wet food because cats are obligate carnivores (and she gets more than enough grain and general rubbish from Dreamies! 🙄)

UPDATE
I think Im going to change dry food for more meat based.

So what should I look at? Someone mentioned Eden???

Now Im really confused...this article in The Guardian talks about best cat food by a vet!!! Royal Canin and Fit 32 is no 1 and thos is what my kitty has!!!!!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/pets/news-features/best-cat-food/

Honestly it's fine. Take no notice of your friend. People like to have a dig at RC feeders because it's relatively expensive and people think it's just over hyped rubbish, usually whilst they're stuffing their cat on GoCat, which really is rubbish.

RC foods are pretty well formulated and they do help health problems, so they can't be rubbish if they're doing that. My urinary girl quickly relapses if I take her off it. My allergic cat can only eat hydrolysed protein and there's only really RC and Hills that makes that kind of food and RC gets a better score than Hills for the hydrolysed food. She's 10 and she scoots around like a kitten, so.....healthy 🤷🏻‍♀️

My young cat eats Orijen dry food ( premium high meat content food) and her and the urinary cat eat tins of Cannagan and Applaws for wet content if you're interested in a higher meat content, but don't feel bad about the RC. I'm a pet carer and the cats that I look after which eat Whiskers and GoCat, vomit, have loose stools, dull eyes, grotty fur and are lethargic.

I buy 10g bags in bulk and it's quite reasonable lasts 6 months so I dont consider it expensive. I will give him more meat and fish though

It is pretty rubbish, to be honest.

I would only buy it for a cat who needed a specific diet for health reasons, but even then there are better (and cheaper) brands out there.

Vets aren't experts in feline nutrition. Cats are obligate carnivores so shouldn't really be eating a food that's 85% grain and filler.

It's fine OP. My cats have been on it the majority of the last 11 years. A mix of Fit32, Hair & Skin, Exigent etc. If your cat likes it, then keep feeding it to them. If you are going to change though, do it slowly and don't bulk buy anything new until they show their appreciation of it....

Try and find me a better quality hydrolysed protein (not just hypoallergenic) dry food for my cat. I've searched everywhere and only come up with Hills (which is objectively inferior according to macros and supplements).

@JobsLot like I said, if your cat needs a specific diet then that's very different and RC are quite good at catering to that kind of thing.

But very very few animals need a diet of hydrolysed protein - there are plenty of other brands out there that can accommodate allergies and other medical
issues.

There are a few other companies that do a hydrolysed diet but I'm not sure if they're available in the UK.

Purina, VetLife and Blue Buffalo all sell a hydrolysed diet for cats.

Our vet sells it - but only the stuff for specific illness - and when dog had pancreatitis, he really pushed us to us RC low fat as he said that the amounts are very low and that's what d dog needed.

As she's got better, we're now mixing her low fat RC wet food with low fat dry food from Tails.com . She's quite old so she gets all the extras with the Tails stuff - omega 3, low fat, and I have a vague memory of something else maybe linked to arthritis?

Our vet also gives it to our Ragdoll cat when she gets tummy upsets

My Persians did really well on the Persian food.unfortunately Cheddar doesn't tolerate it. But I was happy with it.

I'm a vet (and do NOT get paid by these companies!!!)and I would happily have my own animals on Hill's or Royal Canin and most of the animals I see on these brands are extremely healthy with beautiful coats and teeth. The amount of research that goes into their foods is insane!!!