Royal Canin Urinary Care

Royal Canin Urinary Care is the brand's everyday retail cat food for supporting a healthy urinary system, and one thing is worth saying at the very top of this page: it is a daily retail formula, not a veterinary diet. PeekAPaw does not stock Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Urinary S/O or any other prescription range. If your cat has been diagnosed with struvite or oxalate stones, has ever blocked, or is straining and crying in the tray, that is a conversation with your vet rather than a food to order online.

For a healthy adult cat, the retail formula works on dilution and mineral balance. Mineral content is set to help maintain a healthy urine concentration and a lower urinary pH, which makes for a urinary environment less favourable to crystal formation. Royal Canin's own testing reports support for a healthy urinary tract within 10 days in healthy cats fed the dry and wet formulas together.

That word “together” carries more weight on this page than anywhere else in the range. The single most useful thing you can do for a cat's urinary system is move more water through it, and cats are famously poor drinkers, a habit inherited from an ancestor that took most of its moisture from prey. Kibble sits at roughly 8% moisture; an 85g pouch is closer to 80%. Feeding a pouch or two a day alongside the dry food lifts total water intake without any argument over a bowl or a fountain, which is why the wet formats here are worth pairing with the dry rather than treating as a treat.

PeekAPaw stocks Urinary Care dry in 400g, 2kg and 4kg, plus Urinary Care in gravy and in jelly, both 85g pouches in 12 and 48 packs. The two wet textures are the same recipe, so pick whichever your cat cleans up.

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• Royal Canin Sterilised — desexed cats often drink less and move less
• Royal Canin Indoor Cat Food — for cats living entirely inside
• Wet Cat Food — every pouch and tin we stock, useful for lifting water intake
• Royal Canin Cat Food and Royal Canin