Hill's Science Diet Adult Urinary & Hairball Control Chicken & Rice Recipe Dry Cat Food, 15.5-lb bag

Honestly I was so scared to feed my boy the new formula. I talked to my vet, we talked about the new ingredients and he reassured me it’s still going to be okay. GI & vomiting symptoms aren’t going to be the worst thing in the world, as most diet changes can be. So I took the risk. And honestly? He ate everything, did not leave any crunchies behind, and it seemed like after he had his meal for the first time he was suddenly happier? (I guess everyone is happier after they eat but he seems more calm and blissful than usual) No vomit or diarrhea either. Just a happy cat getting what he needs. If you still have the old formula, transition slowly if you’re worried.

My family has a 10 year old ginger cat that has always had one problem after another. We found him in a ditch as a kitten when I was 10, in 2012. He became the family cat much to his disappointment. (He has never really been in on the idea). We moved states a few times, and he’s always been sick. We tallied it up to stress from the move, but eventually, we started to think it might be something bigger. He was constantly throwing up, sometimes so often in a day that it was basically just stomach acid. When we moved to Colorado, he was 8 years old and losing weight badly. His skin was thinner, his pale orange fur was almost yellow. His eyes were sunken into his little face and we thought he might’ve picked up a parasite from one of us; after all, we had 2 people in our family working with animals, and a lot of them were shelter cats. It didn’t make any sense! He had spent nearly his whole life indoors, he was on Purina ProPlan Sensitive Skin & Stomach, he was getting vet visits every month but nobody could figure out what was going on. Then, he stopped eating. He had always been a skittish grouch, and frankly, we thought he might’ve just given up. We hated seeing him this way. At some point in 2020, I decided to switch his food. He was on the “best of the best”, excluding Royal Canine, so why not? He wasn’t eating it anyways. I picked up a 3.5lb bag of HSD Urinary and Hairball, and gave it a go. He snubbed it for a few hours, but polished off the whole bowl by that night. And the best part? He didn’t chuck it up. He went through the bag that week and we got him more, and eventually, he was eating normally again. It’s 2021, he is an old man now. He doesn’t at all act like it. He has color in his fur and his skin is thicker, and more elastic. His nails are healthy. His face and body has filled out, he is more friendly. He was never, ever friendly. He is a snuggle bug now. He “knocks” on doors to visit our family members and he purrs. I can’t say that before this year, I’ve ever heard him purr. He’s so much more active, too. He plays with all the toys we bought him as a kitten that he had never shown an interest in. He yells at us in the morning if we don’t feed him his soft food on the dot at 6am. He’s a different cat. It’s been a year and I firmly believe that switching his diet saved his life. We made the mistake of keeping him on a food that we were advised to use for years without independent research, and without considering that it could be the problem. Don’t do what we did. If you’re looking into reviews to find something that works, you’ve found it. We waited 8 years to help our friend and almost lost him; don’t wait another 10 seconds to help yours.

I really appreciate the low phosphorus content if this food for our old man cat. However, what cat is able to chew this? He likes the taste but it takes forever for him to crunch it. He doesn't eat as much because of it. This is not good because he needs to put on weight due to hyperthyroidism. It looks like dog food. The only reason I chose this is the low phosphorus for our old cat who has not yet developed kidney disease, they need to reduce the kibble size before he breaks a tooth.