Royal Canin Instinctive

Royal Canin Instinctive is the plain everyday wet food in the Royal Canin cat range — the one to choose when your cat has no particular problem to solve. Where Indoor, Sterilised, Hairball Care and Urinary Care each target a specific way of living, Instinctive is simply a complete feed for adult cats, formulated to match the macronutrient profile Royal Canin says adult cats instinctively prefer. If you have been working through the care lines trying to decide which one a healthy cat needs, this is the answer.

We stock three textures — thin slices in gravy, jelly and loaf — plus Instinctive 7+ gravy for cats over seven. The nutrition behind the three adult textures is the same; what differs is texture, and cats hold strong opinions about texture that owners routinely guess wrong. A cat that licks the gravy off and leaves the meat usually does better on loaf. A cat that eats around a loaf often prefers jelly. Buying one 85g x 12 box of each is a cheaper way to find out than committing to a 48-pouch carton first.

Every option comes as 85g x 12 or 85g x 48. Wet food is a straightforward way to lift a cat's daily water intake, which matters more as cats age, and Royal Canin's feeding guide is written for mixed feeding — roughly one pouch plus 20-25g of dry food for a 3kg cat — so Instinctive can run alongside a dry diet rather than replacing it outright. Check the panel on the box against your cat's weight before you settle into a routine, and if you are moving from another wet food, change over across several days rather than in one meal.

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• Royal Canin — the full range, cat and dog.
• Royal Canin cat food — every feline formula, kitten through senior.
• Royal Canin wet cat food — pouches and cans across gravy, jelly and loaf.
• Royal Canin dry cat food — the kibble range, 400g to 15kg.
• Royal Canin Sterilised — for desexed cats, whose energy needs drop while appetite often does not.
• Royal Canin Indoor — moderated calories and added fibre for less active cats.