Royal CaninDigest Sensitive Thin Slices in Gravy Wet Cat Food, 3 oz cans 12-count

My 1 year old recently developed some sort of food intolerance which had him throwing up almost daily. After getting some tests done at the vet, they ruled out any illnesses and advised me to tweak his diet. I went through quite a lot of other brands and he continued throwing up. I was beginning to panic, thinking I might have to take him back to the vet for more tests, and to eventually get him on a prescription diet. I gave Royal Canin a try and he's been thriving more than ever with no more throwing up! My cat is picky so he also has to like the food which is no problem here! He devours it!

It is what I expected of digest sensitive.

Our 14-year old indoor cat has a sensitive digestion and stress. For the past several years, we have been giving her dry food specially formulated for either indoor cats or a sensitive stomach. She usually only ate the one particular brand for indoor cats. We've tried many brand name versions of the dry cat food for sensitive stomach. She'd eat it for a day or two and then go on a hunger strike. They did limit her vomiting, but we couldn't get her to eat it as much as she did the dry cat food for indoor cats. With her favorite dry cat food for indoor cats, she vomited quite often. Recently, we've noticed that she wasn't eating much of anything except a small amount of her favorite dry cat food. She would lay around and sleep most of the day, was losing weight, and was vomiting often. We feared that she was on her death bed. We took her to the vet who said overall she was pretty healthy for her age, but was probably stressed out. That made sense because there were some things going on that caused her more distress than usual. So I decided to start trying some wet cat food. I first tried cans of a more expensive brand name one and she ate it for a couple of days, and then quit eating it too. So I needed to find another option. I searched online and on Amazon and found Royal Canine for Digestion, ordered and tried it on her. She loves it, and has become annoyingly whiney until she gets her daily dose of it. Our at-death's-door kitty used one of her nine lives and morphed into a youngster - thanks to Royal Canine. She's so peppy now that she can even sit up and beg like a dog. She never even did that before. Overall, it has limited her vomiting. We've used about a dozen of the small, 3 oz cans by giving her a half a can twice a day. She's vomited twice in those dozen cans. I believe the reason she vomited is because she snarfed it down too fast. The first time she ate it, I made the mistake of giving her the entire 3 oz can at once. She went crazy and ate it very fast, then puked. It's not like she's starving or that we don't feed her. I keep a small amount of the dry cat food she likes available for her to snack on at all times. Even if she does eat some of the dry food, she'll still whine and beg for the wet, Royal Canine food, and will not leave us alone until she gets it. Another time, I was lazy and gave her the entire can again, and she puked it up, and then because she loves it so much she . . . well, I won't elaborate as to what she did with the puke. We've noticed that she went from not pooping at all when she wasn't eating (of course), to pooping excessively now. It doesn't smell really bad. We keep her litter box , her blanket, and her food in our back porch. Since that is the entrance that all people who come to our home use, we don't want it smelling bad. I do have a BBW wall-cha-ma-callit plug-in in that area, and it does help a lot. When it was empty the other day though, I was able to smell the poop a little more than usual which caused me to realize that I needed to replace the scenty-thing on it. I'm going to continue to use Royal Canine Digest for as long as she seems to want to eat it.

If you're reading this, it's because you have a cat with stomach issues. Like me, you've probably been to the vet and were told to put him/her on prescription food. That didn't work out either because (a) it costs too much or (b) the cat won't eat it, or (c) both. In my case, our cat with pancreatitis simply will not eat prescription cat food. Also, we have no choice but to feed our three cats the same stuff, and the other two won't eat prescription food either, even if we could afford it for three cats.There are about a half dozen over-the-counter (pet store) digest sensitive wet foods on the market. I've experimented with all of them. None are cheap; in fact all are about the same price, $1 - $1.50 a can. Royal Canin fits in that range. For your own research purposes, others digest sensitive wet foods include two flavors from Purina Pro Plan (arctic char, and duck something or other, for about $1 / can), two different flavors from Science Diet (which my cats won't even look at), and there might be another one or two offerings in other brands. That's about it.Since the prices of these digest sensitive wet foods are pretty similar, the issue is really whether your cat will eat it. That is, of course, hit or miss.With my cats, Royal Canin is their top choice in the category. They are OK with the Purina Pro Plan offerings but certainly don't love them. I rotate those 3, by my cats prefer the RC by a pretty wide margin.The ingredients look mediocre and low-end, and truth is, if someone offered a high-end digest sensitive food, I'd buy it in a second. But nothing of that sort exists. The first ingredient (after water) is meat by-products. A few items down there's wheat flour (cats don't eat wheat). Yuck. Seems very 90's, before people started reading pet food labels and demanding real and species-appropriate food for their animal companions. Trust me, you won't be impressed if you start reading the ingredients.Like I said, though, none of the high end brands make a digest sensitive wet food. And if they did, there's no guarantee cats would eat it.And so, we are left with Royal Canin: a digest sensitive cat food that is probably a gradient or two up the quality curve from Fancy Feast but not by much, which is tasty enough to cats that they'll eat it, and does seem to work, as far as not causing stomach issues. In fact, it has been quite effective in reducing flare-ups of our cat's pancreatitis. Overall, I will recommend giving this food a try. Still really don't like seeing "by products" on a food label, though.

I keep buying this because one of my cats has diarrhea and can’t seems to get his stools back to normal so I bought this but it’s not helping at all. But he still loves to eat he has a great appetite even though the diarrhea is still ongoing so I started boiling chicken for him which he loves. If that doesn’t work it’s off to the vet.