Royal Canin Calorie Control Rx Diet

nic614

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Hi, I'm a new member- I've been reading for a while, but just started posting.
My vet has prescribed this food for my kitty who needs to lose quite a bit of weight. We talked a little about the wet vs. dry food debate, and I told him I was concerned that high-carbohydrate dry food was what got him where he is. We decided to try a wet/dry combo diet of this Royal Canin prescription food to get his weight down. The vet said that it was higher in protein and lower in carbohydrates than some of the other weight-loss foods out there.
Does anyone have experience with this food (hopefully success stories
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Thanks!
 

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No experience but RC is one of the better ingrediant RX foods so try it out ... it just may work
 

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Feeding an all wet diet of ANY kind of food would probably help your cat lose weight if you feed according to the guidlines. Plus it helps with urinary PH with the added water.

I don't feed much into weight control diets. It would be really easy to either measure and not free feed dry, or feed wet food than to buy a food for weight loss.

Calorie control diets work if you feed the amount they say to feed. Royal Canin is a good brand and has okay ingredients [not my fave usually] but I think it would be about the same or less cost wise to just switch your cat to a wet diet that has ingredients you may be more comfortable with. If you don't mind the ingredients it's fine, but cost wise your cat could lose weight just being switched to a more controlled diet.
 
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