Other day, I was ordering usual dry food for my kittens, and the re-order link brought me to "Royal Canin Feline Health Nutrition Kitten Food" instead of usual "Royal Canin Feline Health Nutrition Kitten 36".
At first I thought, maybe RC just simply changed packaging or such, but that would be a reason to change name also, would it be?
So I started wondering if the content has been changed too, and I couldn't find any info about this change neither on pet store website nor on Royal Canin website itself.
So I ordered a small package of new food to be able to compare content with the old one I still have. And I am not sure how to react to it: new food first ingredient (and biggest one, I think ?) is brewers rice instead of chicken products as in old one...
The protein content and fat content has been reduced, and fiber content has been increased in new food comparing to old one. Chicken meal was replaced with chicken by-product meal. By the way, chicken isn't main ingredient any more, it was moved to second position by brewers rice (which replaced brown rice in old recipe). And a meaning of powdered cellulose in cat food evades me completely...
There were some additions such as lutein and I think some vitamins too, but I am not sure how essential these are for a growing kitten bodies...
Is it still the same good food for kittens as all vets say? Or is it better to move to some other choice?.. I don't know, but I suspect the answer to first question may be "No"... :(
The package says to introduce the new food to kittens gradually, since the formula slightly changed, but it doesn't seem to me like a "slight change" if I need to introduce it gradually...
I still have some of old Kitten 36 left in the package, but soon I will have to decide what to do, and kittens are far away from 15 months when it is time to switch them to Adult Maine Coon food...
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