Thank you for this review! I adopted my cat recently and he's been on Royal Canin dry food his whole life. I'm desperately trying to change his diet (by finding foods via your reviews) but he's a Royal Canin-only kibble addict, and it's been slow. He's on a mostly wet food diet now of varying brands, but he'll still act up sometimes and eat two bites!! The kibble had been giving him terrible smelling poop and he'd throw up a lot. With the wet food, he's doing much better even though it's slow progress!

Love your videos! You make everything sound so interesting; even if I don’t intend on trying something for my cat I still love watching your videos just so I can learn something new

i’m so glad i found your channel. it’s so hard to find someone with just facts, and without having a biased opinion🔥🔥🔥

To add onto the whole Royal Canin having a research department, one of the biggest reasons so many vets recommend it is because it's one of the "big 5" that meet WSAVA guidelines. Royal Canin, Hill's Science Diet, Iams, Purina Pro Plan, and Eukanuba are all WSAVA compliant and vets tend to stick within these brands because they've researched the food extensively, formulated it with nutritionists, done feeding trials, etc. and are therefore seen as some of the safest foods on the market. Obviously, they don't work for every pet because every pet's body is different, but I hate the narrative that it's pushed so heavily because vets somehow benefit from selling them. This is not true. I will say, though, that vets are not always properly trained in nutrition so they know that these 5 main brands can be generally trusted and they can recommend them because they are safe to feed. Not to say that every cat is gonna do well on Iams or every dog is gonna do well on Royal Canin and so on and so forth (my dog didn't do well on Royal but my friend's dog did phenomenal on the same formula.) It all comes down to feeding what works best for your pet.

I was feeding my kitten Royal Canin kitten loaf wet food. After this review, I found it contains carrageenan. I am switching to Wellness Complete now. Thanks for the review!

I really love Mallory and the way she researches ,lab analysis, and in depth look at food you may be giving your pets....ways nobody else really does. She IS the best and need not look any further for this type of content....subscribe.

Really eloquently and diplomatically said. Thank you for this . I have often wondered myself why anyone would give dry food to their cat (at all) to treat urinary/kidney issues.

I work in a pet store, my wife and I do alot of research and you're on the money. Great job!

When I first got my cat, we fed him Royal Canin's kitten food for the first couple days and it gave him really bad diarrhea. We switched him over to instinct's kitten food as fast as we could and didn't have any more problems.

I get your emails but this is first time I have actually watched your reviews. I will be watching again. Well done. Thank you! Looking forward to seeing more.

Really enjoy your channel. Thank you

Out of desperation I have given her this brand at times, and she was wild about it. But I didn't like the idea of the bad ingredients. She wasn't thrilled about the wet, but loved the kibble. Seems like when I would give my cat foods she would love with Carageenan she would throw up. Seems it's in even limited ingredient foods like the Applaws mouse. Cat loves and pukes. Thanks for your work!!

Royal Canin SO food fixed my cats urinary problem but it's been out of stock for 2 mos. The vet recommended Hills Science diet but my cats hate the taste. I am trying a brand called Wysong, going to mix it with the SO I still have. Great info. Thanks!

When I adopted my kitten I did a ton of research on foods, litters, over all care, Ect weeks before hand to make sure I had a good start for it life. I adopted her at 6 weeks, and I really liked the idea of Royal Canins Mother and Baby Cat wet and dry food because its targeted and formulated at, like the name suggests, mother cats, and baby kittens under 4 months of age. Its the only food i have experience with, but I am very happy with it thus far. The packaging is something i appreciate, its nice that its resealable. I mix half of the caned version with 1/8th a cup of the dry version and my cat loves it. It was pricy. But I do plan on sticking with it, maybe when she outgrows this stage ill look into another brand or type.

Very informative, thank you for sharing!

Thanks to your channel I learned more about cats' nutritional needs and I found Carnilove food which my cat absolutely loves! Apparently it's more nutritionally dense so she eats less and she also poops less because there's less waste in the food. Her coat and muscles are also much much better than before.

My Vet prescribed royal canin renal A for my older cat. Said it would be ok for my other cat to eat as well. After 6-7 months on this food my older cat started losing weight and ended up losing TWO of his ten pounds. Vet said it was just age related. Finally he just stopped eating and drinking. And within days my female also stopped eating and she had no health issues. At that point i found an article about other cats suffering the same symptoms on this food so i stopped feeding it and switched to mostly wet food with a different kibble and they both started eating again. It took several months but my older cat gained his weight back and they both returned to health. I would never feed royal canin again!

Thorough review as usual. Royal Mallory😎💕

My late cat grew up with Royal Canin kibbles and wet food before she was rehome with us. I managed to change her kibbles over time but with the wet food, she wasn’t keen on any other brands. I have tried many brands and different selections, she ate minimally. Personally, I would not recommend owners whose cats have not tried this brand to introduce this brand. It’s very hard to try other “better” options after.

Excellent video. Thank you.

Our senior cat has had chronic diarrhea. The Royal Canine sensitive stomach immediately reduced fecal odor by around 90% and the bouts with explosive diarrhea by a huge percentage . We’ve been trying so many different foods with no success. I am astounded by the incredible improvement.Hoping that it continues.

Thank you for this great learning video. I feed Royal Canin to my cats. I really don't like all the by-product ingredients and plant-based stuff, but my cats love it and seem to do well on it. I have tried everything available on the market, and the high-end, very expensive, quality ingredient foods are sitting in the pantry ready to be donated to the shelter, because my bunch just simply will not eat them.

Thanks for the information,..... watching from Kentucky

Thank you so much for doing this review. I have heard so many mixed results and this review has really made me realize that the price isn’t worth it. Also just wondering if you would ever consider doing a product review on a raw food brand?

Research is everything 🙌

Awesome review! Here in Argentina is the super-premium choice, it's rare to find another brand "valued" as high. My experience with their therapeutic products is really good, but I always wonder about the real quality of the other variety of products since it seems to be the same highly industrialized processed foods as other "premium" brands.

A few years back, Royal Canin SO Urinary helped my cat’s bladder stones dissolve. We kept her on the food for several years but the past couple of years had switched to another food. Unfortunately , our cat very recently developed another bladder stone and urinary infection. The vet wanted her back on the Royal Canin Urinary so we started her on it and she became very ill with vomiting and diarrhea. I was surprised to find out that Royal Canin recently changed their formula and started putting wheat into almost all of their cat foods including the SO Urinary food. My cat has never tolerated wheat and she even had an allergic reaction. I was very upset that Royal Canin would put wheat into their food when they are supposed to be a superior product. Our only other Urinary options were other foods that also contained wheat. We ended up purchasing the Royal Canin SO Urinary Hydrolyzed Protein food. It has no wheat or gluten and our cat is doing well on it. Plus, she loves the new food.

I totally agree with you and thank you for the great review. The food, Simba likes to eat at the moment and does very well with his "outtakes" ;) are the "Sterilized" and the " Beauty" one. Well, I don´t really like this kind of foods and would love to feed him foods of higher quality. We tried so much on the market, nearly everything you can buy or do by yourself....but he don´t like it or can´t eat it without many issues. He is a Maine Coon boy and what I learned so far ( maybe helpful for other people too :) ) is: that many cat breeds ( especially when they´re 100% pure ) have problems with many kinds of cat food. Well, good to know, that he isn´t sick or something ( not at the moment, lucky me ). He is just a 5 year old 100% ( sterilized of course ) Maine Coon cat boy. :) Oh and I can´t use two different brands at the time...if the time is there...sometimes after a few month or so...we need a new product....damn, oops sorry.....but ...Royal Canin is the one, which works the longest time so far. :) Hopefully a little longer or so :)

Our kitten came from the breeder eating Royal Canin, canned tuna and raw chicken. We had her at the vet within days because she always had loose stool and ended up lethargic. We don't know if it was the Royal Canin specifically, but didn't like that the first ingredient was chicken by-products. She's doing wonderfully now that we have her on Dr. Elsey's and probiotics.

Loved this video ❤️. I have been considering trying RC but wasn’t sure how I felt about the ingredients being such a high plant content. You backed up my concern. I would love to watch a similar analysis about Leonardo cat food 😘.

my cat got royal canin (think it was indoor 21?) for years and while reading up on the topic I have tried half a dozen other brands trying to find a healthier kibble. I am not sure it is related but hehas since developed dandruff and an ever persistent case of mild feline acne. I stress less about ingredients that do not sound high quality from a human perspective, since I realized that the frozen chicken breast/tenders I eat are less expensive than the kibbles (1kg bag of tenders/breast= ~5USD, 1kg of royal canin ~8USD here in South Korea). I just give him small piece of chicken every other day to make up for its lack in kibbles. Also, I foudn that if he eats too much actual meat, he seems uncomfortable because his poop will turn into steel bricks (yes I read about canned pumpkin but that's only sold as import here and costs ~8usd per 15oz can if you can believe it). check your chicken prices! if you are in a similar situation I wouldn't stress too much over kibbles containing animal-byproducts or lack of meat as an ingredient because you can fix that yourself and even save money doing so. I also like to think my cat knows when I'm preparing chicken for him and that he bites me more because he is extra grateful... a man can dream. gotta go massage Lord Dubu now. GL.

Great videos! So much help. I’m adopting kittens by next weekend.

I’ve been happy with Royal Canin products. My kitten was obsessed with the Persian kitten dry food - there was something about it that made it just absolutely appealing to her as a little baby. Now that she’s older but still technically a kitten I’ve got her on their older kitten dry food (she gets predominantly wet food but gets a small amount of dry food a day) and she likes it as well. I had a long talk with my vet about nutrition and she was extremely enthusiastic about Royal Canin for kittens but recommends switching to a grain free dry food when my kitten turns one. So that’s my plan.

My cat was put on the RC S/O because of urinary crystals, neutered male. I started feeding better/organic brands wet food, and limited organic kibble, all grain free. He then gained good weight, had TONS more energy, and his coat is amazing. This fixed the urinary crystals. Saved much $$$, and have a way healthier/happy middle-aged cat. Working towards a homemade diet, and even the commercial organic food is a little less $$$ than the RC.

i buy Royal Canin for my dog its the only food that doesn't give him runny poo so i plan on switching my cat food to royal canin as well, also my vet pushes science diet

When we rescued our kitten we started with Royal Canin baby cat food and he has done very well. He’s had a healthy weight, coat the only thing is it gives him stinky poop lol. I also started giving him Tiki Cat after dark wet food which has great ingredients so I plan to stick with both Tiki Cat and Royal Canin when he becomes an Adult Cat. My kitten loves the Spay and Neuter kitten dry food.

I really appreciated this video. Thank you for being honest with your review even though it definitely could get some hate. Royal canin is a controversial brand and I think many people choose it because someone they trust recommended it to them. It is very nice to see someone call them out for the bad ingredients. I agree with many that the cat food industry is so difficult to figure out, and a lot of the time there really isn’t a best option. I think vets are taught in school by leaders of these big companies and therefore are really biased. If the company has research showing the food works it makes the vet not responsible if there are issues. My kitties are still on their journey to finding the perfect food, I am hoping for some better raw food options to convert them too. We have been trying Stella and chewys frozen raw (not freeze dried) and it is really hard to find reviews for this. We have been giving it to them along with their normal wet food and they seem to like it but I would love for you to review raw food options so I could learn more about all this. Thanks!

I really appreciate this review. My vet recommended Royal Canin hydrolyzed protein formula for one of my 3 year old cats that has some chronic intestinal issues. We’ve tried many other foods and treatments in the past and this dry food seems to help more than others. I found it to be more affordable in the dry form and I do feed it to all of my cats, in addition to a commercially produced wet food. I would like to see a review of Blue Wilderness grain free foods. My cats have always done well on them.

I'm using RC Mother & Babycat soft mousse as a first food for a litter of foster kittens and mom. I just reviewed the ingredients which wasn't too bad until I hit the pork by-product, wheat gluten, corn starch and carrageenan, etc. At least it has fish oil and some other good ingredients. I know there's worse foods on the market. I'll be searching for a new food. Love your unbiased reviews...keep up the good work so our fur babies can lead healthy lives! ❤

Please do Ziwi Peak cat food! Thier cat foods are wonderful and I would love to see a review done on them!

Surprised to see the ingredient list for the dry food you got! When looking at the ingredients for different Royal Canin cat food in Sweden, the first ingredient is mostly bird protein, and no wheat gluten, only rice and corn, but those are further down in the list

Thank you for sharing with us a good information. Would you be good review about ACANA dry and wet food. Thanks

Your taster is so charming!💙😺💙

HEY THERE! =). i was all excited hoping you'd review the Royal Canin Persian. I have been wanting to know forever. Can you tell me if it's all non-sense, vs being actually BETTER for Persians than any other of their formulas?

My youngest cat has skin desease and the only cat food that help her are the royal canin hypoallergenic. I don't know how they are made but they works!

Hi. Appreciate what you are doing. Found your site recently and I quite like it. Apologies for multiple comments in the other thread. I don't mean to cause problems. But I thought it was important. P. S. I tried your link to the recall emails. Will it work for South Africa? I am on mobile Firefox if that matters. Will try again when I wake up... It's getting late... or early? I must get to sleep... /grin

I really hope there is a review for Royal Canin fit-32. Thank you.

My vet recommended Royal Canin Satiety diet for my cat she deems obese..but he's a male ragdoll cat. Astounded this food is $50 per 7lb bag!! I really don't want to switch his diet. I currently give them Blue Buffalo wet and dry food.

I bought this brand because my vet said to. As I’m researching more about good cat food and understanding their ingredients. I appreciate your videos.

What are your opinions on the hills prescription c/d dry/wet food

Please do Hills prescription diet

Hi great vid! Do you recommend RC for british short hair? My year old adopted BSH is a bit underweight

But you know what? my cat has a urinary problem, he often gets blockage, but when i switched his food to royal canin Urinary S/O and then now just urinary care, the blockage never returned. We as a pet owner, may research thru the internet for the ingredients lists etc, but it is not just about the ingredients, there are scientific formulation in which when these ingredients are combined together they make a a great benefit.

One of my cats struggles with anemia. When I put her on a diet of Royal Canin and Fancy Feast wet foods she started gaining muscle mass and her skin and coat looks a lot healthier. From my experience, I would give the food a ten out of ten for meeting bodily needs. In regards to price, I would give them a four out of ten. In regards to taste, I have to give it a ten out of ten because my cats wolf this stuff down. Oddly enough, their favorite food to eat is Friskies Extra Gravy and Chunks. Royal Canin may want to consider improving their gravy formula.

l trust Royal Canin 100%! It's the dentist equivalent of Oral B, or the car mechanic one of Mercedes Benz. My cats love it and they are healthy.

5 years ago I got two cats age 5 and 6 from the animal shelter. I only gave them Royal Canin Indoor (they are not allowed to go outside) and 3 years ago I switched to Royal Canin 7+ Indoor. They love it more than anything else I have tried to feed them, wet or dry. As long as that doesn't change, I will stick to it.

My cat has urinary issues I put her on Weruva. And she has actually improved. I took her off the Urinary SO.

When my cat was a kitten I fed her Royal Canin for kittens. I would mix canned and dry food and she did really well. Now I feed my cat dry food only Royal Canin for dental that you can only get from the veterinarian. It’s in a purple bag. They sell another one for dental that you can get from a pet store it’s in a dark grey bag but I haven’t tried that one yet. Don’t know the difference between those lol I used to have a dog that only ate Royal Canin all her life and she did well and lived up to 13 years old

Loved the video! I'm waiting for the hill's one 🙂 I think this 'classic' brands have a very outdated view on nutrition, and still have a good reputation so they'll think - why change? Sadly for me and two of my cats, they only seem to properly digest hydrolized protein, so I'm stuck with hill's z/d, whose first ingridient is cereals. I would really appreciate if anybody knows a good quality kibble or wet food with hydrolized protein. Thank you very much!!

could you make a video about what kind of food is suitable for senior cats?

I just got a 8 week old and he's on iams proactive health for kittens and royal canin wet food. Any suggestions for better brands? Thanks

Yay for Royal Canin : )

What do you think about the hepatic issues one?they only offer dry.Our vet recommended it or the hill ones ,I'm one who used to hate these carb full brands. But I don't want to be stubborn and hender his health. I'm also giving him hepatiale which is a supplement. . He is 13 years old and fell in love with it ! I used to feed him wet food everyday and he would have a bit of dry for free feeding and he is not overweight. Ever since I got it he doesn't care much about the best wet foods he used to love! I refuse to have him only on dry

I love your videos.. I lived in indonesia, rc so popular in here and also my vet recommendation rc so i decided to choose rc for my cats, after i research about cat food i realize that rc it's not good for cat. sadly in my country so difficult to find kibble or raw food that you recommend in this channel, if there is a seller will sell at a high price. so can u recommend for affordable and easy to find for kibble or raw food? :(

Would love if you could review Orijen Cat food too. My furbaby loves it and I ofcourse want him to have the best food so he can live a long healthy life.

I wonder about the canned version for urinary tract health. I have bought 3 cans for urinary tract health from a Canadian company called 1st Choice, but this food is not always available in pet food stores, but the RC version is. One pet food store I shop at will not shelve foods with a high recall history. RC used to be on their shelves but they removed it and replaced the products with 1st Choice. Vita is still favouring her FF canned foods especially the medleys but I want to slowly get her to shift to the canned food for urinary tract health. At least with FF, there is no carrageenan. Did you know some human foods contain carrageenan? Those butterball turkey loafs contain carrageenan (in their edible plastic wrap).

This brand is magical my labrador and my cat just love this product. I've never seen them go so crazy over this food.

my family been using royal canin for our cats for a few years now, seems like no problem at all. We always buy Fit, indoor and british short hair, but the indoor seems to be the best for our cats. A few days ago i bought Farmina N&D, I tried it on the big cat and he seems to like it. This product is quite new to our market here, duno if its good for cat or not but it seems to have better ingredient than royal canin

Could you review meow mix? My Cats loveeee that one but i want to know if it's good for them!

My kittens were on royal canin baby and mother mouse for the first 4 months. As a vet student it’s the only one I trust. Now they are 4 months old I am transitioning them onto other kitten food.

Is 4health a good cat food? also it would be interesting if you did the worst cat food but that's your choice 😁 love the videos.

Could you do the best sifting litter boxes? Thanks :)

Hi 🙂 I was wondering if you’ve heard of Nutrience cat or dog food. It’s very available here in New Zealand but seems to be a Canadian brand... It’s seems to be one of the better choices of pet food even over Royal Canin or Hills etc. If you are familiar could you please do a review? I personally believe it’s one of the best brands of cat or dog food out there but I value your opinion 🙂

I would love for you to review both of Dr. Elsey's foods... his Clean Protein canned food and kibble. PLEASE!!!

I've found the UTI formula from Purina one to be effective. I think lower magnesium and calcium are what works. I'm inclined to think the royal canin would be similar. I do use wet food at least once a week tho.

Useful info! 😻😺😸 Where's Wessie

I JUST took a bag back to the store because it gave my kitten loose stools, I switched him and within a couple of days he was better.

I do NOT want to defend Royal Canin, but here in Italy the labels are slighty differents than in the US. Meat or chicken meat and chicken proteins are the first ingredient, yes, it is a vague label, general chicken, general poultry meat or proteins, very vague, but still corn and rice are NOT the first ingredients. Often, unfortunately, Royal Canin or Hill’s are the only really resolutive food for health issues.

There is some research coming out that lower phosphorus is more important than reduced protein, so foods like WERUVA Wx might be an option for CKD cats that won't touch Royal Canin, and I don't blame them.

Could we do a product review for solid hold and instinct? Especially ultimate protein?

Hello Mallory, Can you Recommend some Raw brand cat food? I would like to introduce my Senior Cat to. I don't feel comfortable making homemade Raw food. What's the Best Raw cat food.

Please review hills diet prescription diet id wet food for cats or best limited ingredient wet food. Thank you for all the video, they help alot!!!!

Make your own!!

What is wrong with animal by products? "“Meat by-products is the non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially de-fatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs." If we are talking about a species-appropriate and biologically appropriate diet, lungs, livers, brains are all beneficial. Just because WE don't want to eat these, doesn't mean our cats shouldn't.

Please do inception and Farmina cat food. These are the less common brands.

Hi. What food do you feed your cats? 🐈 🐈 Love your channel ❤

Can you recommend the best dry for urinary?

In Canada I don't know why people don't recommend said they have false ingredients into the food and harm the cat stomach. 🤔🤔

Could you do "best finds from zooplus" (wet,dry food ecs)

Beautiful

On royal canin now, but am thinking to switch to nulos medal wet food for my kitten. It says its made for both cat and kitten. I dont know how formulated it is for a kitten and was wondering if you recommend?

Can you please review Welness Core Kitten and adult

Can someone give me an alternative to Royal Canin Dental (veterinary edition) my vet has jacked up the price multiple times and I’ve had several bags that don’t even reseal. Pleas help me with a cheaper alternative for my senior male cat I care about

Can you do a review on the brand Farmina? , please and thank you!❤

What do you think of Pro plan?

My cat was suffering from constipation. The vet suggested I switch to Royal canin from whiskas wet food. It's 3 times the price of whiskas but it's working. And I'm very well aware of royal canin's extra carbs in their wet and dry food :/

Thanks for doing this video. My local shelter recommends and I believe are partners with Royal Canin, because if you adopt a cat from them they give you a Royal Canin package to get started. I have a 16-year-old tabby cat that my family adopted in 2004. This family unit has dissolved and our cat Nala has had a few different people accept the role as her primary caretaker over the years with a different opinion on what she should eat and general cat-parenting styles. Nala is still lucky in the regard that she has been able to live in the same home for her entire life. In the last 5-6 years, I have accepted responsibility as her primary caregiver. She only eats dry food though, which is kind of annoying but at least she still has all teeth. She also free-freed and I do not want to change this system because he seems to manage her weight very well and I do not want to cause any undue stress on her. At the end of the summer, I noticed she had gotten a bit skinny and maybe a little anorexic, so I decided to give her some of the Royal Canin Spayed/neutered kitten food and it worked really. She seemed to really enjoy it and put on weight almost instantly and was getting a bit chubby so I took her off it. I still use it whenever I notice she is getting a bit thin and it helps her gain some weight. Recently we are trying the Royal Canin 12+ aging spayed/neutered cat food. It kind of got off to a bad start. She threw up the first time she had it...But it looked like that was only because maybe she overate so maybe she enjoyed it? she hasn't thrown up again so I guess that a good sign. The only thing that bothers me is the amount of grain in there. After this batch is finished I will probably put her on the 100% only natural pets poultry dinner because I saw on one of your videos that you recommend that brand for senior cats and she seems too really like that one. I like it too, just because it smells better to me than all the rest and I gotta trust my nose.

We have 3 cats and that’s all my cat’s eat . Only the dry food they didn’t like the wet food for some reason. I wish the price would come down .

My adult cat eats friskies wet and purina one dry. My kitten eats many different brands wet kitten food and purina one dry both drink water,ofcourse.

my vet said my cat has to be on this for life because he has urinary crystals I was feeding him Tiki BFF, and Weruva before. I'm not sure I agree. I got pretty litter to monitor the crystals and might try switching him back