Hill's Science Diet Dry Cat Food

Hill's Science Diet dry cat food is organised quite differently from the dog range. There is no body-size split, because it would not tell you much — cats are sorted by lifestyle and by need instead. PeekAPaw stocks 20 dry recipes.

The need-based lines are Indoor, Hairball Control, Urinary Hairball Control, Oral Care, Perfect Weight, Light, Sensitive Stomach & Skin and Perfect Digestion. Indoor is the usual starting point for a cat that does not go outside: less activity through the day, and more shed fur swallowed during grooming. Hairball Control adds fibre to help move that fur through the gut. Urinary Hairball Control does the same job while also supporting urinary health, so choose that one only if urinary health is actually the reason you are shopping — otherwise plain Hairball Control is the closer fit.

The senior split here is finer than most brands bother with. Hill's runs two separate mature stages, Adult 7+ and Adult 11+, where most ranges stop at a single senior recipe. We carry 7+ in plain, Indoor, Hairball Control and Vitality forms, and 11+ in both plain and Indoor. An eleven-year-old cat and a seven-year-old cat are not the same animal, and the 11+ recipes are built around the difference.

Kitten sits at the other end of the range, with a plain Kitten recipe, an Indoor Kitten and a Kitten Sensitive Stomach & Skin. Cats are famously reluctant about a change of food, so move across slowly over a week or more, mixing a little of the new in each day. If you feed both dry and wet, note that Perfect Weight and Urinary Hairball Control exist in both formats and can be fed as a pair.

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