Feeding

What Should I Feed My Pet?

Firstly, we suggest that Dry food is the better option for your dog or cat.

Dry food is good for oral hygiene, cleaning off plaque as the animal chews, unlike canned food, which is quickly swallowed and provides very little physical cleaning of the teeth.
Dry food is easier to manage. If you leave out some dry food for your pet, he can come and go to his dish as he likes and the food will stay fresh for longer. Canned food is more likely to go off, reducing its palatability and resulting in wastage of uneaten food.
Dry food tends to cause less allergy problems than canned, which is frequently high in poorer quality ingredients and preservatives.

There Are So Many Different Brands Available. Which Is Best?

We recommend Royal Canin food as a tasty, healthy and value for money diet for your pet.

Royal Canin produces foods for every stage of your pet's life. A young pup has different requirements from his diet than an old dog. As tiny bones grow, pups and kittens need calcium, protein and calories, which are in high supply in puppy and kitten food.
After neutering, an animal reaches maturity and moves onto the adult diet. Neutered adult animals need less energy, so Royal Canin adult food contains fewer calories. This reduces the risk of weight gain, while still providing enough fuel for an active, healthy life. Also, in this stage of an animal's life, bones are fully formed and so, less calcium and other minerals are required. In fact, too much calcium in adult animals may lead to problems such as bladder stones appearing. Therefore Royal Canin adult diets reduce the intake of minerals to a healthy level for this stage of life.
As your animal gets older, it becomes time to move onto Senior food. Older dogs and cats are prone to arthritis and kidney problems, so Royal Canin senior food restricts harmful proteins and minerals to preserve kidney heath and adds componds to help joint health while all the time maintaining the high palatability that means your pet's bowl gets emptied every time!
Bladder stones are a particular problem in male cats, due to certain anatomical features. Therefore, Royal Canin provides different foods for neutered male and female cats. As well as the mineral balance mentioned above, Royal Canin Neutered Male cat food increases water intake, thus diluting the urine and keeping the bladder well flushed out.
For dogs, Royal Canin also produce foods for specific breeds, giving you the confidence that any specific dietary problems specific to that breed are taken care of without any extra hassle or restrictive feeding.

More information on Royal Canin Lifestage Diets can be found here www.royalcanin.co.uk//vet.aspx

Why Should I Buy Food From The Vet When I Can Get Cheaper Brands In The Supermarket?

Because Royal Canin foods contain only the finest ingredients they are highly palatable and digestible. Since they are palatable, your pet will eat all his food, thus reducing wastage and because they are very digestible, a high percentage of the food is broken down and utilized in the gut, thus reducing the amount of unused food passing out the other end!

With this high palatability and digestibility, the feeding cost per day works out cheaper than many other foods which aren't as tasty or which maybe contain lower quality ingredients, many of which pass through the gut undigested and ultimately wasted.