Royal Canin Pet Foods Reviews

Royal Canin Hypoallergenic HP Dry Cat Food - Our Vet recommended to switch our healthy cats from wet food to the RC Hypoallergenic HP Dry Cat Food. Within 3 days the cats started having explosive watery diarrhea. Our vet insisted to continue with the formula. After 10 days both cats stopped eating and would only drink. We immediately switched back to the old food and our cats are immediately better. I do not recommend this product as a safe product for your cat having witnessed a dramatic decline in our cat's health.

My dog has been on Royal Canin Lowfat Gastrointestinal (dry mostly, occasionally wet) for about 4 years now, and we had never had a problem. Our dog took to this food as if he'd been on it all his life, looked forward to eating it, and we were happy to pay the extra cost for such a great food that kept him healthy. We purchase it through his veterinarian. However, in the past year, little by little, things have begun to change. His coat became more dry, he became more itchy, he shed more, and his flares of colitis became more frequent. We chalked it up to him being older and like anyone getting older, he's going to have more health issues. We treated the symptoms that he had with the help of his doctor. The colitis flares and itchiness were much more frequent and much more intense over the past year, though. It was getting to the point where his colitis would flare up, and my family would be puzzled trying to figure out what actually triggered it because it seemed to just randomly flare up recently.

I changed my 10-year-old Siamese cat to RC as I believed it was a superior food. She became listless and was vomiting, seemed to have a tender mouth. I did not realize it was the food and took her to the vet and bought another case of RC canned food. I decided to change her food and she immediately perked up. I am angry as I now have purchased expensive food, which I can't use. But at least I have solved the problem before her health deteriorated too far.

I took my cat in to emergency for a bladder infection (was straining like he was blocked) and the Vet gave me a script for Royal Canin Feline S/O. He also sent 2 cans home with me and said my cat should be on that food. I trusted him and thought it was good food based on the outrageous price. I have another cat at home and decided it would be easiest to just feed them both the same kind of food. The canned food made both of them constipated. They didn’t have a BM for over a week. I took one cat in to see if something else was blocking him. The x rays showed nothing. Blood work was fine. Took him in again as it was suggested that he get an enema. That didn’t help either. My Vet told me to feed them more food as I was only giving them can in the morning and a can in the evening. That’s when I started giving them the dry Royal Canin Feline S/O. Then the nightmare began.

11/25, purchased new pup. 11/29, new vet visit, clean bill of health. Sent home with and recommended to feed pup Royal Canin. 12/3, purchase more food. 12/4, my pup became very ill - diarrhea, poop with just blood, severe tremors, and explosive vomit.

I have a 2 month old Yorkshire and I fed him with RC for puppy. After 1 month, he seems ok. 1 week ago I bought a new RC and he didn't want to eat it and began to scratch his body. First I taught it was a flea, but I didn't found anything yet I found this red spot like pimple all over his body. I went to vet and after checking he said that my puppy positively had a demodex because of the DF I gave. Now I switched with Holistic + for allergic and he gave me a traditional recipe for strengthen my puppy. I'm very disappointed because that dog food quite pricey. And thank God I took him to vet as soon as possible. RC, any comment???

I have been using Royal Canin Low Fat Gastrointestinal food for my Miniature Schnauzers, age 8 and 2-1/2, for about 2 years without issues. I just bought a new bag of food and my youngest Schnauzer appeared to have an allergic reaction, developing redness all over and appeared to be in distress, shortly after eating. Had to rush her to the emergency vet hospital. My oldest Schnauzer began vomiting within a few days of being on the new food. I stopped feeding to allow her to stabilize, but when I started feeding her the Royal Canin food again, she began vomiting once more, even worse than before. At this point, I'm very concerned that there is something wrong with this food. I took both of my Schnauzers off of it and am now contemplating changing to another dog food. I don't know for certain that their sickness and distress was caused by the food, but I'm concerned because the problems started right after opening this new bag.

I just got my cute kitten from the shelter, and they sent me home with Science Diet kitten. My kitty, Luna was doing fine. Then I decided to switch her to Royal Canin after hearing good things about it at work, and that is where my nightmare began. Within weeks, my cat developed diarrhea.. almost constant. She had terrible gas that could clear a room, and her coat was dull and lank. I had transitioned her food slowly, so I was unaware at this time if it was the food that was causing all of this (as she was a new cat to me). My Cat's lymph nodes were grossly swollen as well. After multiple visits to the vet, antibiotics and finally an abdominal ultrasound - my vet thought she could have a food allergy and recommended Royal Canin Hypoallergenic.

I'm a mostly raw feeder after having researched over and over and also from my own background of being a progressive nutritionist and alternative coach. So I got a new baby chihuahua from a breeder who feeds similarly to my kind of thing. The intermediary who brought us together is a commission agent for Royal Canin and insisted that l feed the pup with RC. He also made me believe that l had to at least start with this feed as this is what the pup had been eating so far. Within a day the pup was itching like crazy. I checked for fleas and mites and gave my chi a good wash with sulphate free baby shampoo etc...

I am shocked by some of the reviews I have read on this website. In June of this year, my cat developed UTI and was put on SO. He has been on it for a total of four months. I took him in for a checkup and they did some blood work to have his teeth cleaned. The vet called me and informed me that his blood work was all over the map. He is now telling me he may have kidney disease. My cat also didn't want to eat it. I picked up a new case of canned last week. Before that, he was eating it. He never did like the dry and he would walk around crying because he was hungry, but would not eat the dry. He also developed colon issues and would cry when he had to use the box. After a long discussion with my vet, we took him off of the SO and put him back on the food he loves. When I put the food in his bowl, he went over and scarfed it all down. Right now he has extremely low phosphorus levels, almost not even recordable. I have serious doubts about this food and I doubt seriously if I will feed it to him any more.

I have been feeding my 3 year old male cat RC SO Urinary for about a year after a bout of urinary obstruction and a trip to the vet. The food helped a lot until just recently. After opening a new bag, my cat has started showing signs of severe allergy, itching, hives, rash, hair loss. It has only been three days and he has bald patches! I am taking him off of the food for a while to see if that is indeed the cause. I thought it might be a new litter I bought, but I had used it before a few months ago with no problems. I had to use it because the store was out of the exact formula (same brand) that I usually bought.

In 10 years, many times I brought home new foods for our cat so he's not stuck with same old food. But, he rejected every one of them until Royal Canine (herein RC) was served. I was shocked to see him all but abandoning his regular food for RC - and it was immediately. I even joked that RC had to be laced with something. Then I noticed that our cat was constantly tearing, throwing up often, and became lethargic. The only changes that took place was RC foods. So, I went back to his old brand and took him to a vet. After a checkup, blood & urine tests, the vet suspected possible damages to kidney etc. We are to do ultrasound and more procedures. In the meantime, I noticed that our cat now stopped tearing and does not throw up as often. More procedures will tell us whether there has been any permanent damages, but I am more than convinced that RC was the problem.

Royal Canin Siamese - Put my 4 cats on this formula 10 days ago - to my horror, my elderly little girl has suddenly gone completely bald underneath her tummy area - it's raw and itchy. The only thing that has altered is the diet. The Vet has had to put her on steroids whilst we get her well again - she is so itchy. Have never used Royal Canin before - will never use again.

My tabby cat like most male cats with UTI, so my vet recommended special food. My cat has gained too much weight and now he needs to be in a diabetic formula thanks to this food full of corn bad for the pets. Why do they make as first ingredient corn? I'm not a vet but I'm smart enough to know that the special diets for pets are not good until they do a better formula. My vet said now they are using low calorie from same brand and same bad formula. At list purina proplan first ingredient is turkey, chicken etc. At this moment he is treated bad infection, no crystals in the lab work but now diabetes is alarming. Very irresponsible that companies are focus in dollars and not concern about well-being of pets.

I have been reading the recent reviews on Royal Canin dog food. I have a chihuahua who has been eating the chihuahua food for 8 years. About a month ago she wasn't so enthusiastic to eat it. About a week ago, I came home to her shaking and yelping when touched. Finally it stopped and she has refused to eat the Royal Canin. I went online this morning to see that others have been having this same kind of problem the last two months. I read the Royal Canin has added fillers to their food. Their food is not cheap. I switched food to Canidae. Royal Canin needs to review what they have added to their food as it is making cats and dogs sick.

My cats have been on this food for most of their lives. Six months ago they started having bad reaction to the food, constant vomiting, not eating as much. I thought it was because of age, they're both 13, so I switched. Went back and tried it this week again (they had been on it 12 years prior) and within a week they were vomiting and having horrible diarrhea. The vomiting is nonstop --- six or seven times in a row when it stops. The cats did not do this with the other food. The only new thing was the Royal Canin. Something is wrong with the food. Please help.

My 12 yr old cat has been eating Royal Canin cat food for 12 yrs. I bought a new bag of food 10/3/14. She began vomiting every time she ate. I took her to the vet 10/5/14, all blood work came back normal. I found these reviews and felt like I was going to pass out. I had to take her back to vet 10/10/14 because she was lethargic and not eating the organic human chicken breast canned in water only. X-rays were done and nothing was found to be abnormal. She had to be given fluids and had lost 1 lb, she only weighed 6 lbs as it was. I called Royal Canin customer service to report this and they said they had no other complaints. I have spent 950.00 on vet bills to find out my cat has nothing wrong with her... I know it was the food!!!

My cat, Bloo, was diagnosed with FLUTD in 2011. He was put on a prescription diet and would only eat Royal Canin Urinary S/O. He's eaten it without issue, both wet and dry, for years now. We got a new kitten and we feed her different food, which he's been interested in, and we've had her since May. But over the last month, month and a half or so, Bloo has been refusing to eat his wet food. He'll eat his dry food (from a very large bag we got last year) but he wouldn't eat his wet. I assumed that it was because he was bored with the flavor and wanted to eat the kitten's wet food instead. But our kitten, who was intrigued by his food before, won't eat his wet food now either. I took the cases we had of his wet food and exchanged them for new ones at PetSmart, thinking we'd gotten a bad batch. But he still won't eat it and she won't either.

I have my dogs RC all their lives, 18, 16, 9... Never any problems.. No loose stools, vomiting! They all get the weight control, dry. No people food. Milk bones once in a blue moon.

My cat has been given Royal Canin Maine Coon dry cat food for years. Recently Royal Canin changed the formula and at first we had a difficult time as the cat did not want to eat it. Eventually, he started to consume the food and there were no other problems until last week. We purchased a new bag of food and within one day of eating from this new bag, our cat is extremely ill. I've just read other comments on this site from owners, both dog and cat, that their pets have gotten ill and need emergency treatment, IV's etc., and the only thing different in their routine has been new bags or switching to this food.

I started my rat terrier on this food in June of this year at my vet's recommendation, since crystals were found in his urine. I mix canned and dry (moderate calorie urinary SO) and did switch him gradually from his old food. He ate it readily, and had normal formed stools and good health, until this past week. I had just received a new shipment via mail order, of both cans and dry, and started him on the new batch... three days or so later, earlier this week, Spark didn't seem himself, was mildly lethargic, and needed to defecate with extreme urgency after eating. He passed a formed stool with both blood and mucous in it. My vet had me send a stool specimen for parasites, even though routine blood work and stool test in June were completely normal. This current specimen was also negative for parasites... vet said to "keep an eye on him".

My husky mix has done well on this food for over a year. When I bought my last bag the dog got severe diarrhea after eating it. I switched to home cooked rice and chicken and gave her pepto bismol and she is much better but now I am stuck with a 100 dollar bag of food.

Our 12 year old Bichon Frise has been eating Royal Canin Urinary SO for many years without any problems. About two weeks ago we purchased a new bag of the Royal Canin Urinary SO. He refused to eat it. I thought he was just being picky. I mixed it with a little boiled chicken and he ate it. A few days later he began vomiting. I suspected the food and just started giving him boiled chicken and a little rice. Yesterday he vomited all of the chicken and rice. I will be taking him to the vet and I am hoping because I stopped the Royal Canin food that he will be ok. This is completely unacceptable. I wish I had found this site immediately after he refused to eat his food. I will take legal action if my dog does not recover.

On July 28/14 I switched my 1 year old dog from Golden Retriever Puppy to Pro Golden Retriever Adult. After 5 days of being on it she developed bad diarrhea and by the 7th day started vomiting. I took her to the vet and she was placed on medication as well as probiotics and blood work was done. The blood work came back saying that everything was normal. After 5 days of being on the medication my dog was back to her old self. Two days later she started vomiting again and was completely listless. Took her to the vet and she was given a shot to stop the vomiting, blood work was done, and a litre of fluid was injected into the back of her neck for dehydration. The blood work came back the next day stating that her WBC and RBC were fine, Chloride, Total Protein, Albumin and Globulin were all low, ALT and AST were 3 times higher than the normal high, and Bilirubin (Total) was high.

Our Pomeranian had developed bladder stones about 2 1/2 years ago. We spent over $2,500 for all of the tests and surgery. Vet told us he needed to go on a prescription diet. I don't know about small animal veterinary, I know Equine. Anyways, I started him on the diet, and it was VERY expensive. He did fine on the canned, but that was pricier than the dry (I can always add water, right?). Needless to say, he will get constipated and will only poop every 2 or 3 days. I have seen him pop three anal gland abscesses, only since he's been on this food, all recently. His activities have not changed. They just come up from nowhere. I am taking him off the S/O, and putting him on something else. He is 10. I'm not going to make him go through any more than he needs to.

My family had a healthy English Bull dog. Yesterday morning we gave him a new bag of Royal Canin Food and by afternoon he was dead. He had blood on his nose and the only reasonable explanation according to a Houston hospital is that he was poisoned by this food.

My 11-yr-old papillon has been on the Royal Canin Urinary SO for 9 years. We have been happy with her diet, and she has been a happy eater. After having to take her to a vet, I have started reading more and more comments about the Royal Canin packaging. All of a sudden, our papillon will NOT eat. She turns her nose up from the Urinary SO morsels, which she use to absolutely LOVE. Why oh why?? If something is broke, don't fix it. Was it the change in packaging and adding soy to their products that have made her ill? We shall see.

I was researching why my cat could be extra hungry all of the sudden and I came across this site. I have used Royal Canin prescribed food for over 2 years. I recently switched to an unprescribed version and noticed my cat is extra hungry but also lethargic. He wakes up even earlier than usual for food and I've been feeding him twice as much as before because he is acting as if he was starving. I'm now fearful of continuing to feed him after all these comments. I wonder if something in the food is triggering this behavior change and whether worse symptoms can come if I continue feeding him this brand. Anyone know of an organic homemade diet I could start feeding my cat? (He is 14 years old.)

My three Yorkies have been on Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier Food since they were little. They are now 10 and 11 years old. Last week, August 8, 2014 I bought a new bag of the Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier food for them. The next day one of my Yorkies had diarrhea. I really didn't think it was the food. I continued to give them the food, and throughout the week all three have diarrhea. I called Royal Canin and they told me they changed the formula. They now have chicken by parts in the formula and she said that is probably why my yorkies are sick. Just a warning to everyone.. the new bag of Yorkshire Terrier food does not have the number 28 on it. She told me that I should've combined the new food with the old food for the change... What the heck is in this that is making my dogs sick? I have now put them on a chicken and rice diet until I can find another food for them..

FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CATS, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE FEEDING THIS FOOD TO THEM. And then make your own judgment. We have been feeding our cats this food for a number of years without issue. However, on July 19th, our first cat had to be taken to the emergency clinic. Within a couple of days, our second cat had to be rushed to the vet. Anemic, wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink, lethargic, diarrhea, eye discharge, fever and near death's door. After running blood work, urine samples, x-rays, everything appeared normal though you could tell, he was anything but fine. Then the third cat began to show the same symptoms.

Our chihuahua has been sick for 6 days. 4 vet visits later, no news. He is the worst right after he eats. He shivers, convulses and then becomes really lethargic, but in a lot of pain. He has been on Royal Canin low cal gastro for about 3 years. I have just read that RC has changed the make-up of the product to add more filler. Since we are pretty much at the end of all of the possible diagnostic testing (thank goodness for Trupanion insurance!!), we are going to switch his food and see whether it makes a difference... keep you posted. Given there were so many recent posts about this, I thought that it was important to share our pooch's experience.

I just read a review from the past month where the person experienced exactly what we did. We were on the same special diet, the intestinal low-fat. Just as her Yorkie did, so did ours. The symptoms are acute renal failure. Who checks this food? I'll never use or recommend Royal Canin, quite the contrary, I will make sure people know my story.

Since I got my Chihuahua I started him on Royal Canin puppy food. After a few months I started noticing his head bobbing. He then started acting very strange, bobbing his more, shaking head, falling down. Ran him into the vet thinking maybe low blood sugar. Not... Vet recommended to not feed him the dog food. I started him on healthy food diet I cook and prepare myself. Amazed at the difference in a short period of time. But there is liver and kidney damage. Will never buy dog food again. As far as I'm concerned it’s like giving a dog poison.

Our beagle became violently sick after opening a new bag of Royal Canin. She refused to eat anything after. We took her to the vet and they did a full course of tests. All anti-diarrhea and meds did not work. She could not keep anything down by force feeding. After 2 1/2 months of daily visits to the vet and I.V. treatments she passed away. This food poisoned a healthy dog. I hope this serves as a warning to anyone who uses this food or is considering using it.

My 10 year old Yorkie passed away last week after being sick since opening a new bag of Royal Canin low fat GI food. She had been on this brand/type since Jan. 2014 with really no problems except a slight case of pancreatitis in April 2014 which she recovered from in a few days. The new bag was opened July3/4th and within an hour of eating breakfast, she vomited and throughout the new 2 weeks, had left food in her bowl - very unusual. It was pretty much downhill after that and she passed away on July 23 after suffering a severe stroke/seizure. Never had any issues with seizures.

We have been feeding our German Shepard Royal Canin GSD for several years. A couple of days ago I purchased a new bag and began feeding it to my dog. He uncharacteristically turned his nose up at it and would only eat small amounts. End result? Violent diarrhea!

My cat was recently diagnosed with diabetes so I purchased the Royal Canin Diabetic cat food to see if he liked it and it would help lower his blood sugar. Well he loves it but he now has diarrhea. At first I thought it might be stress (he's been to the vet a lot lately) but then it occurred to me it might be the food. I saw some posts on other websites from people who were having the same issue. I am going to stop giving him this food and switch to another grain free cat food and hopefully the diarrhea will stop.

Earlier this year Royal Canin changed their formula to include soy. This is a fact confirmed by various vets, animal dermatologists and animal internists I have spoken to. I also confirmed with a rep locally. It is having a wide variety of negative effects on animals. After 10 years with this brand, I have moved to another brand too after hundreds of dollars in vet bills.

Discovered your site as I was investigating Royal Canin SO in preparation to buying it for our one-year-old short-hair rescued from outside. While on standard foods for cats, he has developed allergies and crystals in his urine, and bloody urine ......no problem with squirrel, chipmunk and mouse while he was still an outdoor boy.

A couple of years ago Royal Canin decided that they didn't want to pay a percentage to distributors any more and moved customer service in-house. It has been an unmitigated disaster for customers. Despite the fact that the customer's information appears on a computer screen IN FRONT OF THE REP it is their policy to force the customer to provide a laundry list of information - account number, address, name, telephone number, etc. with each and every call. Since the reps lack adequate listening skills this often means repeating this information 2-4 times before they will take your order.

I believe that they have changed something in the Royal Canin Urinary SO formula. I have been feeding the Urinary SO dry food to my boy Sparky for at least 5 years. NEVER had a problem and at 17 pounds he obviously enjoyed it. Did I mention Sparky is a cat? At my vet's suggestion I switched him to the low Cal version, his next stool was loose, and he then advanced to diarrhea. I then tried gradually mixing the old and new but the only way it stopped was when I completely eliminated the new (low Cal) food.

Our Main Coon had to be put down shortly after my second posting. We were devastated. It's been a year and I'm still not over losing my boys. I am 100% sure that there was something wrong with this formula. I don't know why it hasn't been investigated, especially since I've read so many similar postings. I hope they burn in hell.

My 8 week old chihuahua loves this food... no problems at all. :) Not sure about all the negativity. I'm sticking with Royal Canin chihuahua puppy.

This is the food we started our Sphynx cats on when we first got them. While we ended up picking another food to transition to for a variety of reasons, my cats had absolutely ZERO issues with this food product and seemed to genuinely enjoy it. They loved the taste and looked forward to getting their little cans of wet food every meal time. My only gripe with Royal Canin is that the pricing is way higher than other foods, but the quality isn't that much better than the more affordably priced foods on the market. Other than the price, we've had success getting even the pickiest of our two cats to enjoy this food.

I've been using Royal Canin for GSD for more than 10 years! My 10 1/2 yr old German Shepherd has been having issues with inconsistent stool for the last 6 weeks. She recovers from her diarrhea after giving her just rice and chicken for a day or two, but when I reintroduce her kibble, she'll return to having loose stools. I thought it was dog treats she was eating, and have resorted to baking my own biscuits. I put her on probiotics, but still she has the runs. Is this an overall change in their bags of food? Is there a place to send the food for analysis? She still loves her kibble, but now I think I should try a different kibble. Any suggestions?

I recently switched to Royal Canin mobility for my aging rottweiler. He likes the food, but his stool started changing and is now very loose. I will have to find another dog food - Is this a problem with the Mobility?

My dog has recently had some gastrointestinal issues and her vet prescribed Royal Canin. We have not yet tried it so I can't write from experience - and why I rated it 2 stars out of fairness - but when I saw the ingredient list, I started doing some research to see if this food was well received by others and was quite shocked by all of the comments on this site. So many people have been using RC for years without issues and then suddenly, after starting a new batch of food, have had problems. I continued to look around the internet and found an article on Truth about pet food from May 2013 - ** - that I think is very interesting. RC put out a flyer - ** - saying that they were changing their formula from containing chicken meal to containing chicken by-product meal and explaining why this was not a bad thing. The article went on to explain the definitions of each and essentially, the by-product meal can contain intestines and feces. I have no idea if this is part of the issue but the fact that they changed their formula and the problems started certainly seems suspicious.

My 10-year old Australian Shepherd has been on Royal Canin Urinary SO for many years (dry food). He develops stones in his bladder and this food has kept him from forming large stones - he still forms stones but he passes them before they are any trouble. Prior to putting him on this food, he had to have two cystotomies to have large infected stones removed.

My 7-month-old Mal-shi (Shih Tzu and Maltese) puppy has been throwing up on and off since early March. I have taken her to the vet multiple times and was told that since she had no other symptoms, I shouldn't worry too much. But I just know there is something wrong. After going on here, I am almost positive it is her food. She has only ever eaten Royal Canin Puppy food so I never thought it could be that but there wasn't any other explanation. She hasn't eaten anything bad and has all her shots. I have immediately removed the food and I am waiting on my vet to give me a recommendation but this whole thing has me so scared. If there are this many complaints, I really hope that Royal Canin is investigating their latest food because there is OBVIOUSLY something wrong with it.

I had been feeding my two Mini Schnauzers Royal Canin for quite a while. Several weeks ago, both of my dogs came down with a horrible case of diarrhea. I took them to the vet and the vet put them on antibiotics. I also switched to a rice and boiled chicken diet. After a couple of weeks and continued trips to the vet, it was still uncontrollable so I switched to another vet. The vet said their stool did not indicate they needed antibiotics so he put them on a pill called Endosorb for the diarrhea. Meanwhile I agonized over what element in my home could be causing this and changed lawn services in case it was coming from something being put on my lawn. The diarrhea stopped within a couple of days. He said to keep feeding the rice and chicken for another week and gradually add back in the kibble.

I have two sick Rag doll cats from eating Royal Canin Urinary SO dry food. Both are being treated by my veterinarian under emergency conditions. The male is only 18 months old and the female is 10 years old. The male began urinating outside the litter box more than a week ago and cried each time he urinated. Yesterday, the female's face was swollen and she was too sick to walk. Although overweight, she has always been a healthy cat with few trips to the veterinarian except for routine shots. The common element linking the two illnesses is that they both had been eating some RC Urinary SO kibbles I mixed in with the male's normal food to see if it would help with the LB issues.

My 12 year old miniature schnauzer, Joy, has eaten Royal Canin SO for several years. Last week I opened a new bag of it and she got diarrhea after eating her first bowl. My dog has NEVER had diarrhea before in her 12 years. The only thing that was different in her diet was that new bag of food. I thought maybe it could have been something else, but there is nothing else. Nada. So, after a long weekend of dealing with her poo poo and misery I started feeding her rice and boiled chicken. Well, you know the reason she eats SO is to keep her protein balanced and her kidneys in check.

I have a vet appointment today for my Shih tzu. She's been on the royal canine urinary so for bladder stones for almost a year. I've had no problems until this past Saturday night. I opened a new can of food and noticed it looked like it had an orange tint to it. Usually its a tan/gray/beige color. She has been puking and having uncontrollable diarrhea since late Saturday night. I don't know if it is the food or not, but I saw all of these posts and got concerned because she isn't snapping out of it. She looks drunk and sits in the backyard staring off instead of barking to come back inside. (She never stays out alone!)

My 8-year-old pug has had gastro problem for the last six weeks. He's been eating Royal Canin for the last five years and in early March he started vomiting and having diarrhea. We took him to the vet, had X-rays and blood work and we're told he had stomach flu. Got put on antibiotics. Loose stools and vomiting continued. Changed his food twice. Still problems. Now he has water in his stomach and have diagnosed ascites and hydroproteinemia. And the vet wants to do an endoscopy to see what procedure to take. We are very worried and want to make the best decision for him.

This Thursday, my 11 year old Yorkie was sprinting from one end of the park to the other, as she normally does. If you'd have asked me that day, I would have said she had several more years left to live. That afternoon she ate Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier Adult Dry Food for the first time ever in her life. She was dead by Saturday with lungs filled with fluid and congestive heart failure. I am not a vet. I do not have extensive knowledge of congestive heart failure. Of course this could have just been her time.

My 2 5-year-old cats have always been on Royal Canin indoor. Yesterday they both started to have diarrhea after I fed them from a new bag (expiration date 2015). Today they both refuse to eat the bits. Even when I mix it with wet forage, which they only get as a treat once a week, they refuse to eat it. My sister-in-law's cat had the same problem a month ago. They thought it was because they left the bag of cat food outside but this makes me rethink their problem too. Tomorrow we will call the Vet as I find it very strange that both cats have diarrhea and refuse to eat but act hungry. We will also contact Royal Canin and FDA especially because these are a lot of the same symptoms in a short time.

A week and a half ago, my cat was diagnosed with a UTI and had some crystals in his urine. My vet told me to put him on Royal Canin SO formula as it's better than the Hills brand because there are two different types of infections or crystals that cats can get. He said the 'S' fights one type of crystal and the 'O' fights the other. I immediately changed him to the can SO formula. Then one night I read the contents on the can and noticed there was nothing special about this food. It's filled with byproducts from chickens and pigs and it even has corn in it. Everything we are told to not feed our cats, especially when they have a UTI or crystals.

My 6-month-old Boerboel puppy has been eating RC Giant Puppy pellets with no problems. After opening a new bag this week, he started vomiting continuously 2 hours after evening meal. By midnight we took him to vet, diagnosed as gastritis and given anti-emetic jabs as well as antacids. Slept for 5 hours, followed by not wanting to eat or drink for 18 hours. Was admitted on IV fluid, X-rays and barium meal did not show obstruction or foreign body in stomach. Whilst at vet, ate 3 meals of chicken and rice, no vomiting. Discharged after 24 hours at vet. Continued with chicken and rice at home, but seems to be hungry soon after meals, no vomiting or diarrhea.

2 months ago noticed the Royal Canin for Boxers dry food had a strong smell. Occasionally our Boxer would not eat it. Then occasionally vomited. Now after 6 weeks of sometimes eating & sometimes refusing the food, we are on the 2nd bag with the same strong smell. Our Boxer now has diarrhea every 2-3 hours. We have stopped the Royal Canin for Boxers completely. We have researched for any recalls on Royal Canin and came upon the complaints on this site. We have put our Boxer on steamed rice & chicken & will be calling the vet tomorrow. If there would be a problem with the Royal Canin food, we would appreciate notification. We would like to treat our dog effectively to cure his diarrhea. Hoping this issue does not turn into a serious condition.

Royal Canin Urinary SO - I started feeding my pug this food due to her having crystals in her urine and the Vet prescribing this as her food to dissolve the urinary crystals. We bought 3 cans and were given some hard dog food as a sample to make sure she liked it. Well she ate the canned food with no problem as far as I thought. However I did notice her stools were very loose. I had to feed her the dry food the seventh day as I ran out of wet can food. She ate it up and that evening I thought she did not look too good. She was walking slow and almost drunk like. I did not even figure it out until the next day when I spent $60.00 on some more dried dog food and wet can dog food at the vets.

One of our cats was diagnosed with a food allergy and the vet suggested Royal Canin Hypoallergenic PD. We used it for about three years without any problems. About three weeks ago, I gave them food from a new bag and at first I didn't notice a problem until a week later. My two kitties didn't seem as energetic as usual. Then one of them started vomiting and quit eating and drinking water so I rushed him to the vet and he gave him Sub-Q fluids, an antibiotic, steroid injection, B12 injection, something to settle his stomach and ran blood tests. Which was normal except for a slightly low protein level and the vet said that was probably from not eating.

We recently bought another bag of the Royal Canin gastro food that our 10 month old Lab has been on for over a month. Within a couple of days of eating it, he was throwing up his food, then refused to eat the kibble from that bag (would smell it and walk away). He would eat another brand of kibble and did not appear to have lost his appetite. There were no other symptoms. We took him to the vet, who did x-rays and found our dog had gas in his stomach, no blockage. We were told to only give him the gastro food (we had been mixing it with a small amount of another brand). We had to put some wet Royal Canin food on top of it for the dog to eat. Once again, he began to throw up.

I have been feeding my cat this pet food for years and have had nothing but brilliant results. She is very healthy (according to the vet) and she has very beautiful fur. I have plenty of friends who use this product for their pets and they all have very similar comments. Actually I find this site quite peculiar since I see nothing but bad stuff about the brand I have trusted for almost a decade. Anyways the main reason I'm writing is to find out if this site really is legit and would include comments from anyone. If it does, I would probably be worried and would consult my vet immediately.

Our puppy has recently had severe diarrhea and some vomiting. She has been on Royal Canin German Shepherd puppy food since she was 12 weeks old and then after a month and a half we opened a new bag of dog food and instant problems. What is the FDA website to report this? It didn't come through on the previous post. Going to buy a new brand today. What recourse do we have as consumers if there is really contamination?

I adopted my chihuahua in October and started feeding him Royal Canin Chihuahua food. I bought small bags at Petsmart. It was totally fine. Then I ordered a giant bag at Wag.com because I had a coupon. I started feeding my dog and noticed he began to have diarrhea with blood. I have had other dogs, so I treated him at home and then it didn't go away and he was ** blood so I took him to the emergency vet. They managed to stabilize him and I fed him rice, pumpkin and chicken pureed. Along with his medicine, he got back on track, then I started his dry food again and the blood diarrhea started again. It seems after reading all these complaints that the two are connected. And I have to say I spent $300 at the emergency vet and now my dog is back to square one (he will be okay in a couple of days, but why should he have to go through this again?). And Royal Canin is not a cheap food - a small bag costs $17. I just want to thank everyone for posting their experiences or I never would have figured out the cause of my dog's extreme gastric distress.

My cat got a bad tummy last Wednesday. We put it down to him eating something in the garden. Then it dawned on us.... We had a opened a new large bag of royal canin sensible recently. He has had very loose poo and still does poor mite, so I'm now thinking after reading these reviews that I could be linked! Can I return this food? Am I within my rights to do so?? He has always had a dodgy tummy and now I'm worried it could be his food all along (as he was fed this from being a kitten).

I found this site, by accident, a few weeks ago while trying to find phosphorus content in the Royal Canin Urinary S/O my cat has eaten for 8 years, as another cat I have was possibly going to be put on, and that one needs low phosphorous. However once I found this site, it made me uneasy and I asked my vet to put her on a different brand.

Can you have someone explain to me what is going on with the product recently?? I was buying Royal Canin for 6 years and recently my dog is having diarrhea. I switched it to another type. From Maxi Adult to the German Shepherd Gold Bag and still same issue. Please respond back soon! Thanks.

My cat has been eating Urinary dry food for a few years now ever since having kidney stones. He had to have a complicated surgery, basically turning him from a boy into a girl, so he could pass stones more easily. He recovered well and is rarely ill. He never vomits, except when he has a hairball.

I've been feeding my one cat with urinary tract disease Royal Canin. SO for the last year and haven't had any problems, but I just opened a can from a case purchased recently and it smells like feces - strongly. After reading the reviews, I'm quite concerned about feeding this to my cat. So I plan to look into having it tested for contaminants. Will post any follow up or test results. For a pet food this costly, there shouldn't be ANY issues with quality. If anyone has any info on where to get food tested, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

I opened a new bag of Royal Canin Chihuahua food for my 2 Chihuahuas around Jan 10, 2014. I have two 4-year-old Chihuahuas, one is 3 lbs and the other weighs 6 lbs. About 2 and a half to 3 weeks after giving them the Royal Canin food my 3 lb Chihuahua had multiple seizures and I had to take her to an emergency veterinarian clinic. She convulsed multiple times a day for 3 days and had to be sedated with Valium. She hadn't eaten anything new, she hadn't been poisoned, and I hadn't used any new cleaning products. It was the first time she had ever had a seizure. I took her to my regular veterinarian and they ran many tests and everything seemed fine.

I have fed RC urinary SO for the past 4 years. I was buying the Canadian Medical until last spring, when I started buying the USA variety, because it can be purchased cheaper than here in Canada. I have had 2 boys on this food for 4 years, the third boy has been eating it a year and the 4th boy (All Himalayan neuters) has been eating it since his pu surgery last early fall, and recently a little 17 year old Tonkinese female has been eating it as well. I have had no problems whatsoever but.... with what I am reading here, I am beginning to wonder if there is now a problem. My boys are gorgeous... long matt - free silky coats and weighing around 11 to 12 pounds plus. The little Tonkinese spay has always vomited a fair amount but this food stays down well... and she loves it.

Our 8 yr old toy poodle has been on Royal Canin SO can food for about 2 years. No problems until starting her on newest purchase. This week she has been to vet twice for all types of testing due to intestinal swelling and gas, seizure, pacing from pain, and unable to rest. She has always loved her food and been an eager eater. However, with this new supply of Royal Canin, she will take a bite and walk away, come back and do the same for a few more bites. At her last feeding, she wouldn't touch it. She is very smart and seems to have figured this out before we did. She is weak and stumbling. Have a call into vet now. It appears we will be taking her to ER. The only change in her diet/routine was the new purchase of Royal Canin food. Our daughter has a poodle on the same food who has been in vets this week on IV for diarrhea. We are hoping we do not lose our little fur baby. Royal Canin sold to Mars and it seems another pet food has gone the way of others.

My 4-yr-old DISH has been on Royal Canin since I adopted her at 3 months of age. She is strictly indoor, never gets table/people food, and is an "only child." Over the past 6+ months she has been less and less interested in eating her food and has been throwing up. She has also developed what appears to be miliary dermatitis with hair loss without any signs or symptoms of fleas. At first I thought the dermatitis might be due to a change in her litter from clay to wheat, so I switched back to clay. The dermatitis - and her lack of interest in her food - has not changed. I used to brag about her beautiful, shiny coat (per vet, diet related). I am confident that her signs and symptoms are a direct result of her food, Royal Canin Indoor, mixed with dental formula and will be finding a new food in hopes that my poor kitty will once again have her appetite and health. When I spoke with someone at the pet supply store, they said that RC changed its formula recently. I, for one, am not happy with the result. I hope that a new diet will help her - and all the others mentioned here!

My cat has been on Royal Canin Hypoallergenic for years. First, she started drinking excessive amounts of water, followed by increasingly violent vomiting, and extremely loud stomach noises. Several times when she vomited, she could not breathe, her tongue turned blue, and her middle (just before the hips) got very very skinny. It scared me to death. I've just found out Royal Canin has been recalled due to Melamine toxicity! The same thing that killed all those animals in 2007! This is a prescription food. My vet kept selling it to me and never even called to say it had been recalled! Now I just hope she makes it.

My wife and I are the owners of our 2nd Jack Russell puppy (now currently 2yrs old). Our first Jack passed from Liver and renal failure. We are also clients of your veterinary clinic. I am writing to you in hopes that someone will read this and not just see some wack job spouting off to your clinic, instead a concerned pet owner who believes that the products your clinic is recommending had a hand in the illness of our pets. I have no proof but I have common sense and a bit of research that tells me "if it smells like a duck", "quacks like a duck" it's probably a DUCK! I am an average person and consumer who loves his pet not some crazed lobbyist or "against the machine" citizen who feels the need to fight the system. My wife and I will continue to bring our pets to your clinic. We love the care and attention they receive and truly believe that the work being done is in earnest. This is not about your clinic.

My cat has the same symptoms described above. Vomiting, stopped eating, vomiting bile. 700$ later: all X-ray and blood tests were negative. Going back to the vet again today. Interesting he first developed an allergy (eyes became red ) to the adult 'vet prescribed' can food. I donated the two boxes. Got him the Duck version. 2 weeks later he is sick - he has been very healthy, has been eating RC dry food vet prescribed for adult since 2012. He is 5 years old. I will definitely try to have the remaining cans examined! The recent purchases were made through Chewy.com but directly shipped from RC (not sure).

My Shih-Tzu/Poodle mix has been eating the dental formula dry for many years now and we have experienced absolutely not problem with this food.

Within days of being fed from a brand new bag, my cat became lethargic. He was throwing up violently, repeatedly. He would sniff his food and walk away. He no longer wanted to eat his kibble which he previously loved. One day that week I came home and found his face looked bloody, his lips and eyelids bright red and swollen. His chin bright red and gums. The skin over his temples had lost fur and were covered with inflamed "sores". The skin was bright red in those areas. He was congested and sounded like labored breathing.

Our Bearded Collie has been on Royal Canin gastro-intestinal canned dog food for many years. On December 19, 2013, he ate 1/2 of a can and threw the food up within an hour. On Friday the 20th he ate 1/2 can and walked to our bedroom and died at the foot of our bed. It was a surprise since he had been fine before his meal. We were just five cans into a new case of 24 when this happened. We are heartbroken and curious if his death could have been brought on by this canned food. I hesitate to donate the remaining cans in this case of dog food in case it is contaminated. Our pets are too valuable to take a chance on, I plan to call Royal Canin today!

Just a follow up to let you know Lucy, our long haired Persian cat, is still very poorly. Having returned from the Vets after being hydrated by a drip overnight, she is still vomiting and now has an upset tummy. She is slowly drinking a little water and taking a little food with TLC but is very lethargic. As predicted, the vets told me not to believe everything I read on the internet and no recalls have ever happened to Royal Canin Persian Food or any others and yes, they sell only Royal Canin. I will NEVER feed her Royal Canin again and I can only hope she recovers from this as soon as possible and gets back to the lovely lively cat she used to be a few days ago. I cannot understand why there are no warnings to the public in the media, Royal Canin has obviously been poisoning our pets.

My dog had recurring urinary tract infection so vet put her on Royal Canin Urinary SO. I was feeding food for 2 months to both my dogs and one wouldn't even touch the dry stuff and the bag had a strange odor to it. They had been vomiting periodically over the 2 months but I never suspected the food as it was vet recommended and cured the UTI infections. The day before she died, she vomited her food up and on the day she died she ate her canned version, went outside to go potty, came in attempted to vomit then went into a seizure and died in my arms. All within 5 minutes of eating the food. I suspected the food the whole time they were eating it but thought since it was an Rx diet and seemed to worked on the UTI problem that it was okay. I had received a refund on the first bag and still have it along with the 2nd bag and half a case of the canned. Is there a way to have the food tested for contaminates?

My cat who is about 15 (he is a rescue and I've had him 11 years) lives to eat instead of eats to live as my vet says. He has been on wet and dry Royal Canin High Fiber Calorie Control since May 2011 to try and get his weight down. I noticed in November he was not as keen on the wet food. I ordered two new cases of the wet in November and since they have arrived he doesn't eat much of the food. I've noticed that he has occasional hairball coughing attacks but rarely gets them up but the vet said the fiber in the wet food should help him to digest them but I was hesitant and started to mix his old Hill's Science Diet Hairball Senior hard food back into his diet. He has been having terrible occasional gas since the end of November.

After reading these comments, I felt I should let people know what has happened with my lovely Persian Lucy. At the weekend, she started vomiting badly. She would not eat or drink and continuously vomited on and off for 24 hours. This morning she collapsed in my arms whilst being sick. We rushed her to the vets this morning, who has told us she may have Gastroenteritis. She has had all the tests, bloods, etc. and is now on a drip overnight at the hospital. They are not quite sure if that's exactly what it is and all the tests have come back normal. Lucy is 10 years old and has never been sick in her life. She never vomits and is always lively. To see her become so ill in such a short space of time is awful and she has never been away from us overnight so I cannot begin to think how she is coping.

Cat vomiting and serious gastro problems on royal canin SO. I'm reading a lot of posts on here about the Royal Canin products in the last month. I'm also having very similar symptoms with my cat. He is losing weight, not eating right (unless he is at the vet) vomiting, lethargic. It's been since Nov 29th. Ultrasounds, blood work, X-rays... I'm feeling something might be wrong at Royal Canin right now. This needs to be investigated!

I've raised Pudge (black Persian) & his only son Jackjack on Persian 30 for the last 6 years, until they discontinued it in my area..... Recently found a new more 'selective' line of Royal Canine @ Petco last week (separates mane coon from Persian from the rest of the long-haired breeds). DO NOT BUY!!!! Have spent the last week straight @ the vet/groomer/PTO to conduct the monthly bath daily. They have never reacted to this food in such a manner & nothing changed except this element in their daily routine.

In the last month, both of my cats died of a mysterious, unknown illness. Due to the oldest cat (Gemini) having a bout with urinary crystal issues several years ago, we have been feeding them Royal Canin Urinary So dry cat food ($60/bag) for the last 10 years. Due to the unexpected deaths of both cats, the only common denominator we've been able to identify is the cat food. The cats only ate the dry cat food – no table food, no can food or any type of pet treats. They are indoor cats and have always been healthy.

Started feeding my 7-month Toy Poodle Royal Canin Puppy x-small dry dog food. She seemed to tolerate it fine. Then all of a sudden in order to get her to eat it, I had to hand feed her. Now the last 2 days, she has been sick, lethargic and droopy eyed. I gave her Pepto yesterday and held the food last night and she perked back to her normal self. She woke up all peppy. Then again this morning not realizing I gave her the food and here we go again, same reaction. I will be returning the food to Pet Supplies Plus and yet another day of Pepto. Had I realized this yesterday I would have not given it to her again. I am very angry that this expensive food that you think is good for your animal does this and to even think they push this in the store claiming it's the best you can buy.

On 11/29/2013 I posted on here about Abby, my 11 year old persian cat. She spent 2 days in the ER and the vet confirmed she has pancreatitis. The vet also confirmed that cats usually get pancreatitis due to an allergic reaction to food. I have been giving Abby Royal Canin Urinary SO for 3 years and this is the first time this is had happened! Given all the responses on here, I am pretty confident the food was the issue and I intend to call Royal Canin and complain. I am going to send them a copy of her diagnoses and see if the vet is also willing comment on this. The vet recommended I change her diet to a more hypoallergenic brand, a venison based product. I am waiting patiently today to learn if I can take Abby home.

Our 10 year-old cat has enthusiastically preferred this dry food over the canned Royal Canin Urinary SO for approx 7 years (after being diagnosed with cystitis and vet's recommendation that this brand and combo be a permanent diet). With the recent purchase of a new bag, he began throwing up after eating the dry food (not hair balls - obvious dry food vomit). We always store it in its original air-tight bag. We tried decreasing the amount. Didn't help. Then pulled it from his diet completely. Now, when offered the dry food, he sniffs it and walks away.

I have been feeding Abby Royal Canin Urinary SO for about 3 years. She is a Persian cat, 11 years old. She has always been a bit on the vomity side. She doesn't like to be brushed and has long hair, so hairballs are the norm. On Friday (11/22/2013), she had a bout with a hairball, or so I thought, and seemed fine over the weekend. On Monday (11/25/2013), she started up again and even produced a large long hair ball. Immediately thereafter, she threw up significantly all that she had just ate. I suspected she had an upset stomach. She continued to throw up off and on from Monday on. About 2-3 times. Again, this didn't seem too unusual, but I was on high alert.

All of our cats (7 indoor domestic shorthairs) seem to deal with LUTD on one level or another so my vet put the household on Royal Canin SO. I bought the 17.6 lb. bag and a case of the 5oz. cans. This was early November 2013. They "ate" it after introducing it slowly, but I could tell they didn't "love" either the kibble or canned. I've gone through most of the food and was doing an online search for it to do some price comparison and saw that it's a different name than what I have. It's now being called SO 33, whereas my bag only shows SO. So being puzzled I came across the Consumer Affairs website and saw the shocking reviews about the product. Immediately I called my vet and also sent a link to the CS website and begged them to not sell it to another soul until this is figured out.

In all fairness, Royal Canin has always been responsive to my issues with their foods from time to time. Previously I wrote here about the size of the kibble in the Special 33 being smaller than usual, taking pics of it because my cats would not eat it, even though it was fresh from a newly-opened bag. The company said that maybe they wouldn't eat it if I stored it in bins where it could get contaminated. I do store in bins as I feel they offer more protection than an opened bag... and my cats go through the bag in less than a month, plus I wash out the bin after one batch is used and another is added. They also said that mine was the only complaint about that particular lot number.

My 2-yr-old Mini-Dachshund has been on Royal Canin since she was 8 weeks old as recommended by a sales guy from Petsmart and our vet. She periodically gets sick (mostly vomiting, but occasionally also diarrhea). I brought this up to my vet when my dog was about 6 months old and I was told that Dachshunds commonly have sensitive stomachs (this is my first Dachshund) and not to worry about it. So on and off for the last 2 years my dog gets sick.... It seemed to happen a lot more often in her first year when she was eating the RC puppy formula. Then she switched to the adult small kibble, mixed with the RC Dachshund formula and was sick less often. But she was gaining too much weight so we switched her to the adult diet formula and she has been getting sick more often again and most recently has vomited the past 2 days.

I've been feeding RC Special 33 for years. I am a breeder and have quite a few cats. They have always loved RC until a few weeks ago. I noticed that they were not eating their dry food very much and were waiting for their daily wet food. I have been seeing an unusual amount of diarrhea as well. On top of that, I noticed a few weeks ago that the kibble in one of the 35 pound bags of Special 33 did not look like what I am used to seeing. I remember this happened about a year plus ago, and I told a representative of the company about it. She told me I should have saved the bag and I could have gotten a refund.

Royal Canin Urinary SO Cat Food - My cat has been eating this food for years now. She's never had any problems with it before. She had a different food until she had recurring bladder stones. She's 12 now. My mom opened up a new bag that hasn't been opened since we got it about a month ago. Shortly after eating from the new bag earlier, she had diarrhea. She's never had that before. I normally wouldn't be too worried, but seeing all of the other reviews has made me a bit worried. She seems fine now, but I'm still keeping an eye on her.

Our 3 year old male was diagnosed with diabetes and the vet prescribed the calorie control formula (which has a very high percentage of carbs, for a diabetic?) for him. She said it would be safe for his sister to eat also. Both cats were given a small handful to see if they liked it. Within two hours, the female cat had vomited the food and continued to vomit throughout the evening. She seemed fine the next day. The male cat seemed ok until the next morning when he got very mopey and then vomited and had diarrhea. The vet is telling us that it was a drastic food change and that we should just mix some of their old food in with the new. I think I am dumping this crap.

Hmmm... I bought my first bag of Royal Canin Main Coon dry food on 5/27/13, so I would have started introducing it into the cats' diets in June. Cedric started coughing occasionally sometime in late June. He kept me up all night with coughing fits every hour on the hour on Sunday 7/7 and it had gotten so bad that I almost brought him to the emergency vet. I called him on Monday morning 7/8. They told me to treat for hairballs for a couple of weeks and see if that would help. (I KNEW it wasn't hairballs and the coughing got worse - not just at night time anymore but in the evenings, then also throughout the day and finally in the mornings too. But this was a crazy busy time with my Mom's recovery from surgery (and several weeks in the hospital) and other major things happening around me, so I couldn't take him in for a while.)

After seeing the other posts, I am now certain that my suspicions about the recent batch of Royal Canin "Adult Fit" for cats has some sort of problem. I have a 5 year old and a 10 year old cat. They have both been eating Royal Canin dry food for a few years. They are indoor cats and have always had very good health. After opening a new bag of Royal Canin, my 5 year old suddenly started having diarrhea and vomiting (11-2/13). Her vomiting was continuous, and she would drool and froth at the mouth for hours after vomiting. This was not the normal occasional vomiting of a hairball. It was followed with smelly, oozy diarrhea.

Three days ago, my 6yr old began losing his appetite. He has a pancreatic disease. He and our other dog both eat the vet prescribed Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Low Fat dry food and Calorie Control High Fiber canned (one for health, the other because he is stubborn and has to have the same food). I had just opened a brand new bag and new can. He turned his nose up at his bowl and wouldn't eat it. I was able to persuade him to eat a few bits of the dry kibble but that was it. He regurgitated what he did eat about 30 minutes later. He vomited bile throughout the night. The next morning he would neither eat nor drink. I took him to the vet.

My 8.5 year old Schnauzer had stones removed and was prescribed a diet of Royal Canin Urinary SO with the caveat that he may have trouble digesting it. Well he did. He had constant bouts of diarrhea and vomiting, costing me expensive trips to vet. The vet insisted that we should continue on the diet and that it was a good diet. It was not easy to find a contact at Royal Canin to ask if they had any problems with their food, but I did finally make a complaint and someone called me. She said there were no reported issues and did not ask for more information from me. I offered to give her a detail account of my experience so that they could have a record, but the person was not interested in it. So that would explain why they have no records of complaints because they have no system of taking them.

My three cats eagerly await their feeding ritual in the mornings and scarf down their food immediately. On Friday, 10/18/2013, I opened a new (fresh) bag of dry cat food Royal Canin "Mother & Baby Cat" (the same cat food that they have been eating since they were weaned). This was a new bag not a new type of cat food (BBD/MA 08112014/CAD 11AUG2014 00:41 64 HENCHO EN/FABRIQUE AU/MADE IN CANADA) and proceed to mix it with a quarter can of Blue "Kitten Wilderness High Protein Grain-Free" wet food (same wet food that they have been eating since they were weaned. Best if used by JUL 16 16 1149 U 61WKM4). All three kittens ran to their three separate dishes to eat.

On Saturday I picked up 3 cans of RC SO to be given to all three of my dogs. My one dog Gabby has crystals and a UTI and RC was recommended to her. The vet only had canned food so I had to order the bagged food. The vet said it would be ok to feed my other dogs RC. On Sunday, Chloe came down with vomiting and diarrhea. By Sunday night, she couldn't lift her head. Monday I took her to the vet. She stayed overnight was given fluids by IV and blood tests, meds. She came home the next day with the diagnosis of mild pancreatitis and I was told to take her off RC SO. The day I brought her home, Gabby, who has the crystals, started in with vomiting. As of today, I am not taking any chances and took all the dogs off RC SO.

Our kitty has just turned 1, so I bought him some new grown up kitty biscuits (he was previously on RC Kitten, Digestive Health). I mixed his old & new biscuits together to help with the transition. After eating them for only a few days, he started puking A LOT. Unfortunately when we decided that it had gotten too bad and we had to take him to the vet, it was a Sunday (22/09/13)... Apart from being super expensive, the emergency vet is about a half an hour drive from our home. Very stressful for him...They kept him overnight to re-hydrate him & check that he didn't have an intestinal blockage. They gave him the all clear the next evening & we could take him home. Although he hadn't eaten anything yet.

I changed to Royal Canin Spayed Neutered 12+ formula for my 2 cats, aged 13 and 14. My 13-year-old cat is overweight and the 14-year-old is finicky and has a sensitive stomach. It claims to maintain an ideal weight. My thin cat started losing weight as he got diarrhea and was vomiting a clear liquid often. He was very nervous and did not want to play. My heavier cat was vomiting as well and sleeping and drinking more than usual. I give my cats wet food every second day or so. I realized that the days they had wet food, they were better. I changed their dry food to a different brand, a no-grain formula. Thankfully, I saw a huge improvement immediately after stopping the Royal Canin. No more diarrhea! And they are not throwing up clear liquid any longer. They are playful again and not nervous. I am glad I changed their food before it was too late. I can't believe they are allowed to sell this as a premium cat food!

I have a cat approx. 11 years old. About a year ago, the cat started peeing all over the house. The vet discovered the crystals and recommended that we start using the very expensive RC-SO dry food. Prior to this, the cat was eating the Purina Naturals. After 2 months, we had a 2nd ultrasound done on my cat and the crystals were gone so the food was working. The cat hated this food from the start but finally he would eat it out of starvation. Once we ran out of the food for a couple of days so we gave him the Purina Naturals again - he loved it. About a month ago, I bought another bag of the RC SO and the food just didn't smell right, the vet assured me it was fine. I could see why the cat didn't want it but I kept feeding it to him anyway.

I have used RC Urinary SO for approximately 7 years. My two inside cats are very sick with vomiting, and diarrhea. I went to my vet, and he gave me FortiFlora. They are very dehydrated. Dr. ** said he may have to run blood tests. Royal Canin has new labels (moderate diet), which I believe is contaminated. My suspect is they are dealing with the Chinese again. If they are not better in a week I will bring them in to my vet. Going to PetSmart tomorrow to tell the manager to take this off the shelf. I will give you an update in a week or two. Hopefully, they will survive this ordeal. Give this matter the attention it deserves!

My dog has been on Royal Canin Urinary SO for years up until about 4 months ago and she switched to Royal Canin Diabetic Food. She turned her nose up at it from the start and began vomiting in the morning. I was given medication to settle her stomach in the mornings and that seemed to control it up until a month and a half ago after getting a new bag. She began vomiting more and did not want to eat much. I took her to the vet and being a quality of life vet they wanted me to put her down as they said she was extremely sick. They do not believe in doing much testing.

Our little dog has been suffering with intestinal bleeding on and off in the last number of months. We had her at the vet today and he stated he had 5 to 7 cases this week of dogs with food poisoning. All of them is being fed Royal Canin food by their owners. I then discovered the website, ConsumerAffairs. My pets will never be fed Royal Canin again for as long as they shall live. Funny that there are no warnings to the public out here in the media.

I feed many very young kittens for welfare organizations and although R C is the easiest formula to use and the only formula that provides bottles, I find the holes in the teats way too large. The kittens latch onto the teats fine but... Even when turning the teat to 1, a 2-week-old kitten will drink 20 ml in 20 seconds. I worry that aspiration could occur and and a second concern of mine is that they don't get to enjoy actually suckling.

After experiencing prolonged diarrhea in our 10 year old Wheaten terrier, he was diagnosed with IBD and prescribed Royal Canin Hypoallergenic diet. We bought cans and a bag of the kibble. Since his 11 year old brother often ate what he did, we decided to switch them both. The 11 year old wheaten, who was healthy, within 1 day of eating the dry food began experiencing weakness of his front limbs and was falling. I suspected an ear infection (he had had them in the past) and took him to the vet. Nothing too severe was noted - a topical antibiotic was given and we were told to monitor him.

I called up Royal Canin pet food and was first told the company was having technical problems so I looked up the parent company Mars Incorporated. According to Wikipedia, they also own the following companies, Milky Way, M&M's, Twix, Skittles, Snickers, and the Mars bar. "They also produce non-confectionery snacks, such as Combos, and other foods, including Uncle Ben's Rice and pasta sauce brand Dolmio, as well as pet foods, such as Whiskas and Pedigree brands. Orbit gum is among the most popular brands, managed by the Mars subsidiary brand Wrigley. During World War II, Wrigley was selling their eponymous gum only to soldiers, while Orbit was the gum made available to the public. Though abandoned shortly after the war, about 60 years later Orbit made a comeback in America during the gum craze."

My 7-month-old kitten has always been fed Royal Canin and been very healthy and active. She is an indoor cat and my house is totally cat- and kid-proof. Opened a new bag of this food on Thursday, August 1st, and fed her with it that night. By the next morning, she was vomiting foam and very lethargic. Took her to vet on the Saturday. He could find nothing wrong. Gave her antacid meds. By Monday, she was worse and had to be admitted. All bloods, etc. came back normal. Vet said she could have been poisoned but as I said, she's an indoor cat and my house is totally safe. She is only just starting to recover today, August 12.

We had a cat who allegedly came down with some kind of kidney disease. When we took her to the vet, she was not herself, but not deathly sick. The vet prescribed Royal Canin Hypoallergenic special diet - sixty bucks a bag. Well, within a week, our beloved cat was dead. Didn't suspect it was the food at that point. A few weeks later, we get another cat, a spry, energetic, outgoing cat - looks to be 9 or 10 months old. Well, the other person here decided to feed her the food from the vet, and after four days, she started to hide, seemed to have no energy, then hid all day today, and seemed to have even less energy than she did yesterday. This kitty is acting, to the letter, the same as our first ca the last week of her life. Well, I rushed to the store just now to get something edible (it's Sunday night, or she would have been at the vet - even though I have mixed feelings about the vet we took our first cat to).

Now, I tried my best to NOT blame Royal Canin for my Yorkie's illness, but I just returned from another all day vet visit and I'm absolutely convinced that it's the culprit. Before I go any further, I'd like to state that I have 3 dogs; 2 smalls and 1 big guy. Of course, my 2 smalls share food and the big guy gets his own big boy food. However, he likes to steal the smalls' food whenever it's available. In December 2012, I bought a brand new bag of Royal Canin Adult X-Small and after 3 days my Yorkie became extremely sick (diarrhea, vomiting, lethargy, dehydration). I noticed that the bowls stayed full... and that's because not only was my Yorkie not eating, but my other small wouldn't go anywhere near the bowls. He was starving himself.

Our pug is 9 years old and has been eating the Royal Canin Urinary SO dry dog food diet for 1 year with no ill effects. After consuming about 1/3 of a new bag, Suzie suddenly a few days ago vomited up all her dinner about 1/2 hour after eating. The next morning we fed her part of a can of moist Royal Canin Urinary SO for dogs and she kept it down. We have a habit of giving Suzie a tiny reward after each of her outside walks, so throughout this day, we gave her a few nuggets of the dry food. We skipped the evening meal to give her stomach a rest. The next morning, after another moist meal, she again vomited up the morning meal and apparently the dry food from the day before. After 5 regurgitations right in a row, we took her to the vet for $900 of testing and a few hours of observation. All she had was a slight ear infection in one ear of a mix of yeast and bacteria and a problem of overweight.

Feeding my three cats for about a year now, both the canned and dried variety, although I try to make them eat more of the can variety since I understand that the wet food is better for their urinary tract health. I really only have one cat with a urinary tract problem but all three have to be on the diet because it's impossible to segregate their food and eating habits. The last two cases of wet food, and I buy it by the case, have been rejected by my cats, all three. If I pour some of the dry variety on top of it, they'll eat around it and of course ingest some of the wet food. But they leave most of the wet behind. I read the review regarding a lady's cat not eating the dry food but my situation is the exact opposite. They have been eating the dry but won't eat the wet. The last three days my two older cats have stopped eating even the dry variety. It's possible that it's because they're getting old and sick. But I'm not sure if maybe the food is the problem. I purchase my food from PetFlow.com. I am writing this review in the hopes of starting a dialogue and hearing from others who might be experiencing this as well. Please write.

We have two sister cats - both healthy. One had a splenectomy two years ago due to osmotic fragility. So this cat we are particularly sensitive to ensuring we prevent her from infections. Both cats have been on Royal Canin Hypoallergenic Adult PR for the past year. But for the past two weeks, both cats have been refusing to eat this food. It started when we bought a fresh bag and the two cats nibbled the food but did not eat as usual. Both cats vomited the food. So we thought maybe something was wrong with that bag.

I wrote about our cat Pepper dying after eating this food. Our youngest cat Boo and another older cat Coda were eating it too. When they were eating it, Boo had just had surgery and was full of antibiotics. Our cat Coda got sick like Pepper did, but he stopped eating it sooner and was much larger (15 lbs. as opposed to Pepper's 9 lbs.) so he was able to lose weight and still be okay. I have seen too many of similar situations between April and May 2013 of where cats got sick, hid and withdrew, vets not able to diagnose and either they were able to turn the corner after the food was removed or they died. Something needs to be done about this immediately. Who knows how much more of this food is out there?

Royal Canin nearly killed 3 of my cats. I was recommended Royal Canin for my Cattery, as other breeders use it. I introduced the dry and wet kitten food slowly to my cats, so I would still give them the choice to eat their usual food, Dancy Feast kitten, Ultimates, Advance kitten, etc... One of them suddenly became violently ill, throwing up, his hair straight up on his back for hours, feeling poorly, cold and upset. I looked after him but he would not eat anything else. He lost weight quickly, stopped drinking, but did not have diarrhea. I did not make the connection straight away with Royal Canin food because my other cats were fine. Then I had to hand-feed him with a baby cat bottle, kitten milk and vitamins. He was gradually better and digested the food. Then he started to drink again.

I am so sad for all of you and your pets who have suffered from bad food! I read these reviews, started investigating, and found an article about a "Voluntary" recall this year by Royal Canin USA and knew I HAD to share it! There's a specific list, but I'm worried about other formulas too. Think about how long food can sit in the Vet's office and is still being sold if they don't know about the recall?! We use this brand (nothing on this list) and so does our breeder who recommended it. My pets have been very happy and healthy so far, but now I'm scared. EVERYTHING that comes from China being toxic, WHY would anyone buy anything from them?! I want to know if any of the ingredients are from Genetically Modified (GMO) crops or if GMO or "Round up ready" feed is being fed to the animals for the meat? GMO crops kill people and animals! (Research it if unfamiliar.) Please keep posting any new information. God Bless!

We got the wet Urinary SO food for our cat that had bladder stones. She is four and she is a very small cat, usually around 5-5.5 pounds. She was down to 4.5 before the surgery. The doctor recommended this food for her and since one of our other two cats had stones before, she told us to put all 3 on it. The two older cats got sick and we didn't know why. One of them got sick so quickly that by the time we took him to the vet, it was too late. We took him to the vet on Saturday and he had to be put down on Monday.

My two male 2-year-old red tabbies have been eating Royal Canin SO for 1.5 years. One has been barely keeping his weight at 9 lb, even with unlimited servings when he asks. Neither has ever been excited to eat this food, but the vet thought it was the only way, with the history of Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease. Last week, I brought home a new case of the 5.5 oz. cans like I always do. They BOTH simultaneously refused the food. I didn't really think of the possibility of bad food. I just thought they were being little picky eaters, so I didn't give them another option and they eventually had to eat it. I never left it out of the fridge for longer than an hour.

I used Royal Canin Dog Food for over five years. I had one litter of puppies born and die within one week. I had another litter of puppies that were stillborn with the exception of one that lived two days. Two other litters with two puppies instead of the four-five puppies normally borne by the mothers. All adult dogs started getting sick. I threw out all open dog food, dewormer, vaccinations and any other dog medications I had on hand. Dogs seemed to be getting better when I received a call from a customer who said the puppy was sick and had a bacteria infection (I paid the $200 vet bill).

My Himalayan cat was prone to crystals in urine and was getting worse. He had blocked twice within 6 months. My vet suggested Royal Canin SO but I was leery to switch him from Wellness. For fear of another blockage, I switched him to Royal Canin Urinary SO Wet Food and have not regretted it. His problems stopped and he has been a happy, healthy cat. He has been on it for about 5 yrs and I feel if I had not switched, I would have lost him. His last blood work which was done a few months ago shows he is a healthy cat with normal readings.

To the people who have had a recent bad experience with Urinary SO cat food... was it dry or wet food? Do you still have any info on the food; i.e. lot no., expiration date, bar code? I've been feeding my cats this food for the last couple of years. I have one cat who I have noticed has been drooling excessively since last night. The other was just diagnosed as a diabetic. I feed them both wet and dry. No one has used the litter box in the last 18 hours, eaten or drank anything. I am going to the vet in a few and bringing these reviews.

I have waited a while to post about this since my vet didn't think it was the food. Having read what others are continuing to post, I think it's important for me to add my experience. My cat had a P/U in 2004 and had been on Feline C/D every since, until Sept 2012. My vet urged me to switch to Urinary SO because of my cat's weight, the only negative report at the checkup! I agreed and we started him and my other cat on the food. There was vomiting involved shortly after, but my kitty had always been a vomiter so I didn't think much about it. It is also possible that my other cat was eating some of the evidence and there could have been more than I was noticing; therefore, I continued feeding this food until Nov 2012. I stopped in Nov. 2012 because the cat that meant everything to me presented with a lump. Nine grueling weeks later, that cat died as a result of lymphoma. Similar to other reviews I have read, some of his problems involved not being able to go to the bathroom (urinating or defecating).

My orange tabby cat was put on Royal Canin Urinary SO by my vet six years ago after a bout with stones. I was told by my vet that my cat would have to stay on this food for life. I bought a new bag of food from my vet a week ago. My cat had been an extremely healthy, happy and active indoor cat but after eating from the new bag of food, he started throwing up and wasn't himself. After several days of this, I rushed him to his vet. While waiting for the vet to see him, he started crying in pain. I demanded he be seen immediately. They rushed us into the exam room and carefully took him out of his case. At this point, he could not walk. He laid on the exam table, went into a coma and died. The vet wasn't able to do anything to save him. I'm grief stricken and angry.

We have 2 dogs, a puppy Chihuahua and an 8-year-old Pug. We bought last week Royal Canin Puppy Chihuahua for the puppy who only ate very little of it, but while at work, my pug ate a lot of it, and was so sick for 3 days with vomiting and diarrhea. On day 3, we took her to vets where she still is as we speak. We just gave them $500 deposit for her care and our estimate is between $1500-$2000 for all tests and her stay. She is so sick she needs IV for dehydration and many tests. My sister who has 2 Chihuahuas who are fussy eaters as well were at my home this week and I gave her a few cups to try on her 2 pups. The one male who ate it is now sick as well, and my puppy that ate only a little is now sick also. It has to be 100% the food. All 3 dogs were in great health and have vaccines up to date. Trust me. You will be hearing more about our poor pug who may die from this terrible food.

We bought above food from our vets as they’re the only ones that sell that brand now. Thinking nothing of it, our cat ate his normal food for one more day then went over to the new stuff. He was violently sick that night. A trip to the vets and some blood tests did not find anything unusual. We took him off dry and gave him white plain cooked fish for two nights, and there was no vomiting. Thinking he was getting well, we gave him a small amount of dry for him to eat during the day whilst we were at work. I came home to find he had vomited again. I immediately threw the dry away, gave plain fish and have stopped Royal Canin. I honestly think, having read these postings, the food is at fault. I urge everyone to be cautious feeding this stuff to your pets. I will be reporting the issue to Royal Canin on Monday.

We have had three litters, all with defects in the last 8months, two with deformed tails (different litters different sires) and a pup born with a hair lip. I blame Royal Canin. If anyone has experienced the same but not made the connection (until now!), please ring RC and report it!

My male cat was put on this food about 11 years ago after he was diagnosed with crystal blockage in his urinary tract; he was extremely healthy, an indoor cat, and did well on the food until I just recently bought a new bag of Royal Canin Feline Urinary SO from his vet. I still had some food left from his old bag and did not open the new one until late last week. He ate a little from the new bag but not with his usual gusto. The next day, he had eaten most of it but he had vomited a bit of the food. I fed him again and he was drinking plenty of filtered water as usual. He ate some but the next day, there was some food left.

My cat started eating Royal Canin on 04-20-13 and died on 05-03-13. He threw up on May 2nd and died the next day. My cat was in good health before eating this cat food. Everyone should contact the FDA.

Royal Canin is a disgrace. My mum’s dog had previously been ill. He stayed in overnight on a drip, came out next day and was given the sensitivity tinned dog food. He has been eating it for 4 weeks and has had diarrhea constantly. He is not eating and has no energy at all. I am disgusted that this dog food is still available to buy. It is slowly poisoning him. It’s supposed to be a recovery food and it has made him worse. I warn all dog and cat owners to stay away! Get this food off the shelf for good. It’s harming those poor innocent animals.

I have fed my cats Royal Canin Urinary SO feline dry food for two years. It was prescribed to prevent bladder stones in one cat, but was told it would be fine to feed both the food. Approximately six months ago, the male cat started vomiting within minutes of having eaten the Royal Canin food. The vomiting is not due to hairballs or other issues. I have since discontinued the RC Urinary SO food as both cats exhibited constipation, itchy skin and increased vomiting as a direct result of the Royal Canine food.

The vet put my cat on Urinary SO about 3 years ago. At that time, she was only 5 but her weight has been hard to maintain and she kept on getting UTIs. It was going great. Her weight was under control; she didn't get UTIs; she was eating and recovery well. That is until this February. She suddenly lost 3lbs, started vomiting and stopped going to the bathroom. We took her to the vet, who said that she thought it was pancreatitis, later to discover it wasn't. Her belly was filled with some liquid that they thought was urine, which it wasn't. They tried cancer and it wasn't. And just in case, I did some search on her food and booya. I found this page.

I have a 7-year-old male American Bulldog that, until recently, has been the picture of perfect health. After diagnosis and surgery to remove a bladder stone, my vet prescribed RC Urinary SO. It's been 3 weeks since the surgery and 2 since starting the new food. He's not crazy about it unless I slather it in canned pumpkin. My other dog is a chow hound and won't go near his bowl.

Marion from Roswell, please contact me. I am having issues with this food too and would like to compare notes since we live in the same town. My cats are drinking less and getting constipated. I just opened a new case of wet food and my cat is vomiting from it. On a positive note, it did dissolve the stone one of my cats had.

Royal Canin Renal LP Cat Food - My orange tabby was on this food for months, being slowly poisoned. He started acting lethargic and not eating. I took him to the vets and he had very high calcium and vitamin D levels. He went on medication on and off for months and we couldn't get his levels down. He started to have problems with his teeth and had to have 2 pulled due to the high vitamin D levels. To make a short story, I finally figured out it had to be the food and switched him to Nutra. His calcium and vitamin D levels are now normal. I spent thousands of dollars in vet bills and almost lost my cat. Please if you are a vet, stop selling this horrible food. If you care for your animals, stay far, far away. With all these complaints, there should be a class action lawsuit. The US government needs to investigate this company.

Royal Canin Special 33 Cat Food - I have a multi-cat household. I have fed my cats this food for years, but six months ago, things went horribly wrong. I had every cat vomiting and having diarrhea. I had no idea it was the food. I lost two and one is dying despite all my efforts. I stopped buying this food, but my efforts have been unsuccessful in saving the three. The ones that survived liked wet food and they are still underweight from what little they ate.

Our Himalayan has bladder problems so the vet recommended RC Urinary SO. They said it would be safe for the whole house. The Siamese had horrible diarrhea, the two domestic shorthairs lost weight and a bunch of their fur, and the Himalayan got so sick he almost died. The only two cats who didn't get sick were the 2 domestic longhairs, who get real chicken regularly in addition to cat food.

We have a Miniature Schnauzer who was diagnosed with urinary bladder stones after a bout of recurrent urinary tract infection in August 2012. She went through surgery to remove the bladder stones. These were analyzed to be struvite and calcium oxalate stones. Her food was changed exclusively to RC Urinary S/O moderate calorie. She has never been diagnosed with pancreatitis or diabetes through several blood tests in the past, as well as the ones done just prior to surgery.

My cats had been doing fine on Indoor Light 40 for about six months. I opened a new bag a few weeks ago. The cats lost weight, vomited, etc. This went on a couple weeks until I decided it could be the food. They're doing much better now since they are off it. I sent RC an email but got no response.

My cat has urinary tract disease. Both my vets recommended Urinary SO from Royal Canin. After several weeks on this diet, my cat became severely constipated and his skin had dry flakes on it. After several vet visits, they recommended adding fiber and Laxatone daily. My cat has never been constipated before his UTI. This food made it worse by the days he was on it. After several exams by the vet, his anus was normal and they said it was probably not enough fiber in his diet. I noticed my other cat who is very healthy starting to get constipated as well. I switched to Hill's c/d Multicare and within a week's time, they are well hydrated with no flakes and pooping freely daily and the constipation has almost cleared. The strange thing is that the c/d diet from Hill's has the lowest fiber on the market of any pet food! This suggests it wasn't the fiber and it was the Royal Canin diet. This food made both my cats ill.

My dog has been on a vet prescribed Royal Canin Urinary SO dog food for about three years and has done very well on this diet. She generally gets the dry food in the morning and the canned (wet food) in the evening. We recently (January 2013) purchased a new bag of the dry food and began using it. Almost immediately, she began to throw up and became lethargic. She began doing dog bows to help alleviate digestive pain. We brought her to the vet who conservatively diagnosed either and intestinal disorder or possibly pancreatitis and gave us Cerenia for nausea, suggested using Pepcid and recommended that we change her food to something easily digested (chicken and rice).

My very healthy and happy 7-year-old cat started eating the new bag of Royal Canin Urinary SO. After a day, he started violently vomiting, refusing to eat, getting more lethargic (according to the pet sitter). I was out of town, tragically. He died several hours later that same day. I am heartbroken.

My five-year-old Siamese has been eating Adult Fit 32 for her whole life but last week on Friday, Feb. 8, we got her a new bag and she ate about a tablespoon of food all weekend and vomited seven times on Saturday. We then returned the bag on Sunday, and then had to bring kitty to the vet on Monday. We got X-rays and the vet said her stomach looks really upset and now she has a bunch of medication and she has not eaten or drunk anything since Sunday and today, Tuesday, we have to take her in again. I fear she is dehydrated. I have never had a problem with her food before. I did notice the food had a stronger smell. Expenses are rising and I can't afford it so today, I hope the vet gives me good news. I would be devastated to lose my young kitty. I'm so upset.

My part Siamese cat only ate Royal Canin for the first 8 years of her life. One day after eating, she became very lethargic, vomiting and stumbling around. I took her to the vet ER and she was put on IV and kept for 3 days very ill. The vet said it looked like she was poisoned. She has always only been an indoor cat, no other pets in home and only ate Royal Canin. Upon her return, she would never go near the food again. So all these stories sound familiar!

First of all, I would like to thank everyone here for posting your experiences regarding Royal Canin. This has helped me understand the reason for two of my cats having diarrhea, one had severe, explosive diarrhea and has still not fully recovered (close to a month). I stopped feeding my cats this prescription pet food. I have been making homemade food for them anymore. I find that 75% meat goes well with them. Having read so much online of late regarding what is put in pet food, I will no longer feed any of my cats any more pet food.

My three-year old exotic short-hair cat became extremely ill. On Sunday afternoon, I bought a new bag of Royal Canin Special 33. On the bag was a sticker that said: New Look/New Formula, Best By/CAD 10 NOV 2013 09:21 R5 (on bottom of bag).

I have a 6-year-old orange tabby that our vet said was overweight and was recommended to be put on a diet. She recommended Medi-Cal calorie control. We've been feeding the cat the Medi-Cal calorie control wet and dry food since March (this is December), with only slight signs of weight loss. We picked up another case of cat food at the vet about 2 weeks ago and noticed the change in packaging. We asked about it and was told that there was a change of ownership and packaging, but that it was the same food. It was now called Royal Canin. My cat sniffed the wet food and went for the dry food. When the dry food was gone, he went back to the wet food. Shortly thereafter, he started throwing up - at night on the bed, during the day on the couch, outside on the grass.

I fed my dog with RC for the past years. My dog died of Hemangiosarcoma two weeks ago, which I understand has risen dramatically in this country. Various sources such as Wikipedia and many of the veterinarians I spoke with have little doubt that the sharp rise of this particular cancer has its roots mainly in the food and treats we feed our dogs. I understand from breeders in Europe that for example, RC in France uses dog carcasses (with the unabsorbed toxins) and finely shredded car tires in their dry dog food as fillers. These giant corporations are acting out of greed with no sense of ethics and moral obligation towards their consumers and their pets. They advertise that their dog food products are "wholesome and nutritious" - which is clearly stretching the truth and here is why:

We have a 7-month old kitten that became very sick after 2 days of this new Royal Canin Development Kitten Dry food. On the 1st day, she vomited. On the 2nd day, she was lethargic and shaking in pain. She's had very bad diarrhea leaking from her butt for days now. She's spent 2 nights in a row at the vet. She needed intravenous due to being dehydrated. I wouldn't recommend this new formula to anyone. This new food has tomatoes listed as one of the ingredients. She could have had a bad allergic reaction to the tomatoes. We are very unhappy that RC would change their formula when it was working well before. RC must step-up and be held accountable for their negligence and mistakes. This is very unfair to us and our beautiful kitten. We purchased this bag of cat food from our vet on Oct. 2012. Serial #: 582215/P582215A.

On a local vet's recommendation, I acquired the Royal Canin Boxer 26 food for my boxer. The day I fed it to him for lunch, 4 hours later, he developed rapid breathing 120/min. I switched back to an old brand (Purina) and he was okay. Then the next day, I tried RC again with the same result: 4 hours later, it was an even faster breathing rate for 6 hours. Again, I alternated one day with other brand (Pedigree) and he was okay. I risked trying the third time with same results. So, I will stop the experiments and have to take him to the hospital for a complete check up. Is there a possibility that RC is using food parts obtained from China? Some years ago, Chinese pet food killed a couple of cats and dogs here in Ontario.

This food was recommended by my vet. I ordered a very large bag online, recommended for King Charles Cavaliers with heart problems. I introduced it gradually, but he started with diarrhea immediately. He has been on it for about 10 days now and it is getting worse. I am throwing $55 worth of it away tomorrow. It is disgusting what it has done to him. It should be recalled. You try to give your dog the best food and this happens.

This is an update to my last post. I called Royal Canin to let them know what was happening when my cats ate the Calorie Control formula. They got back to me right away. Rachel was very helpful. I had to supply her with the Best Buy Date on the bag. The date on our bags was May 20, 2013. Everyone having issues with their Royal Canin food needs to call or email them (you can find their info on their website). They need to track which batches of food are having issues so they can pinpoint the cause. They have a database that tracks this stuff. Hopefully if enough of us do this - they can figure out what is going on. Hope this helps!

My cats have been on Royal Canin for two years with no problems. This summer, they started with diarrhea and vomiting. Only one lot of food is causing this, the 44213. My one cat wouldn't touch this lot number of food, and my other one was ill after eating it. I am changing to another brand and I just pray that this has caused no long term kidney or liver damage.

My 3 cats have been on Royal Canin Calorie Control for years. They used to like it a lot. Recently for the past few weeks, my cats have developed diarrhea and vomiting. Lately, they don't seem to want to eat and they always leave some in their bowls which never used to happen. Nothing new had changed in the house and we don't feed them people food. I also believe, like other reviewers, that something has changed with the Royal Canin formula. I took them off Royal Canin and put them on EVO organic cat food and they scarfed it right down. The diarrhea and vomiting are gone. They are happy and back to normal. I will be calling my vet tomorrow to see if I can get my money back on the 2 unopened bags of Royal Canin that I recently purchased. I will also let them know what is going on. Something needs to be done. A recall would keep lots of animals from getting sick and save a lot of money in unnecessary vet bills.

Well, the long of the short is: thank you, Royal Canin, for coming out with Feline SO dry and canned. My senior cat would like to thank you, especially for the morsels and gravy! After thousands of dollars, my cat was diagnosed with idiopathic cystitis. He was put on Hills C/D which made him gain weight and lose his hair coat. He also began having crystals again, too. Then, I tried Iams Low pH/S which made his coat come back, but it left it very dry and he continued to gain weight (he was at 22 pounds!). I was recommended the Royal Canin S/O dry and canned - and holy cow, he got his coat back with incredible shine and he lost 4 pounds after 5 months! He's been on S/O for 6 years now and has not even had a UTI, let alone crystals! Thank you for developing a food that keeps my cat healthy and alive - and handsome, too!

We have a salt and pepper Standard Schnauzer which has been under a specialized product of Royal Canin (Skin Support SS21) for at least last two years and never had a problem before. These last two weeks, he have had diarrhea and can't stand the food. I just bought this new bag of food (almost $70.00) three weeks ago and the food is the one that is causing him these issues. The bag does not have any "Due Date" information for me to know right away if it is fresh enough or not. I am immediately suspending this food and taking him to the vet for treatment. I am doing this comment to support that something is going wrong with this "lot" of food but I'll not risk my best friend's health any longer. We all must share these concerns that may cause a recall or at least an analysis of the way Royal Canin is making the food. Something is wrong with this food.

I have two Shih Tzus. They have been on Royal Canin 28 since they were 9 weeks old. I've always noticed the male have trouble keeping food down. When they switched to adult food, the boy went down fast - he couldn't pass his bowels. The vet put him on a diabetic diet to help regulate him. So that was February 2012. I have been mixing the dry with sensitive can food. Well, the same thing is happening all over again and since I purchased the new bag of food at the end of May 2012. This time both my dogs are vomiting and the boy is doing vomiting and has diarrhea. I think I may have to go with Science Diet. It worked well for my old dog (a Maltese). Never again - the pain and suffering this dog had to go through. I wish I kept the bag so I can return what’s left.

My little chihuahua is 6 years old and has been fed Royal Canin Chihuahua Formula 28 since he was a pup. Recently, he started having vomiting and diarrhea that was coming and going. Finally, he was so bad that he had to spend the day at the vet getting fluids and blood work. Blood work was okay, but when we brought him home and started him on the Royal Canin, he started acting up again. I wondered if it might be this "lot" of dog food. I started researching the net and have found several people, who are having the same issues. I returned the rest of the bag to Petco along with a note with a link to this webpage. I also gave the info to my vet. The more people who report to their vets about this, maybe we can get a recall. I personally am done with trusting dog food companies. My dog is getting boiled chicken mixed with rice and broccoli from here out.

Our cat has been on the Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Feline SO33 for years and this last bag has made my cat sick - If the lot on your bag inside the top fold shows 41371126 800 2800, 2148 12811 103, please discontinue the use of this food for your cat. Mine has gone through several vet visits trying to get over the throwing up and almost dying.

Is Royal Canin cat food tainted? I presently live in Macedonia. I have been feeding my cat Royal Canin dry and wet food since January with good results until last week. Mine had both diarrhea and vomiting from Royal Canin packets of Beauty and Instinctive varieties. This morning, she refused to eat Beauty. I fed her a packet of Friskies and she ate it immediately. I did an internet search and found people with similar problems with Royal Canin.

I purchased a new bag of Royal Canin Yorkshire 28. Our yorkie has been on this brand for almost one year with no problems until now. Upon his morning feeding from the new bag, he spent the entire day vomiting. He was feeling better that evening and no longer vomiting. I fed boiled chicken and rice that evening and the next morning to ensure his stomach remain settled. He had no more vomiting until that next evening when I fed him his meal from the same new bag of Yorkshire 28. Within 20 minutes, he was vomiting again.

I fed two of my Persians, one Himalayan and Shih Tzu dog this food. After a while, they all began having horrible diarrhea and vomiting. The Himalayan ate only the dry food, the others preferred more wet. One of the Persians also vomited blood. The Himalayan began to have a rapid heartbeat and stopped eating. I took him to the vet where he had to have emergency surgery to remove a blockage. He also had crystals. I looked up Royal Canin. He had the same symptoms as 2007 recall. He was there for a week. I brought him home 3 pounds lighter and he still could not urinate well.

My two-year-old Birman started vomiting undigested dry cat food three days ago. I had just purchased Royal Canin indoor beauty. Luckily, I had a gut feeling something must be wrong with the new bag and took it away. I feel very fortunate that she appears back to normal. I have owned cats for 40 years and never had a food issue. I will never purchase Royal Canin again and I urge others not to as well.

Our two cats have been on Techni-Cal Indoor Urinary Health dry cat food for a few years. The smaller of the two suddenly became very ill with excessive vomiting, pain, diarrhea, etc. We rushed her to the vet and she was hooked up to an IV for 2 days. Multiple x-rays, blood and urine tests were all done. The results showed enteritis through her intestines. She is an indoor cat and did not eat any plants. The only thing that we can pinpoint is a new bag of food that had been opened the day prior. Our other cat had a slight reaction, but not as severe as our little cat. She is at home now, but is very ill, has blood in her stool and is lethargic. Upon doing some online research, I have noticed this has happened to others over the past few months. My cat may has to be put down if she doesn't improve. Any advice would be appreciated.

I switched from Iams to dry Royal Canin Mature 26 a few days ago because my older cat has teeth problems. The kibble was supposed to be easier to chew. Well, within 30 minutes of eating the food, my cat began vomiting and having explosive diarrhea. It has been several days and this has not stopped. It is now 06/30, the fourth day, and I have picked up the food and will be going to Petco to get something else. The weird thing is, my other two cats were fine with it. I just threw the receipt from Petco away too. I really hope they will reimburse me. Stay away from this cat food.

I fed my cat some of the canned food (Royal Canin Canned Food Ultra Light), and shortly thereafter, he began throwing up and throwing up. He threw up many many times and eventually he threw up so much that blood starting showing up whenever he threw up. He couldn't hold down any food or even water. In the middle of the night, we took him to an emergency vet who was able to treat and stabilize him. I have many cans of the food in my pantry but I will not feed any of it to my cat anymore. He is eleven years old and I cannot have him sick like that ever again. I believe that there was something wrong with your canned food and I have no way of knowing if the other cans are good or not. Royal Canin should recall that lot of canned food so that another cat doesn't get sick like mine did. I bought the food at Petco on East 17th St. in Brooklyn. Royal Canin should contact Petco and recall that food and refund the money of those people who bought it. If you leave it on the shelf, another cat will suffer as mine did. I will not use your canned food in the future.

I have three chihuahuas. I have been feeding Royal Canin Weight Control and Xtra Small 12+. We have been satisfied until just recently, when I opened a new bag. Since then, all three of my tiny babies have been having bouts of vomiting and diarrhea! Everything has just started happening since I bought new bags last month! Even the shape of the food is a little different too. At first, my little chubby one, who eats the diet kind, did not want to eat it. He loved it until I bought that new bag! He has been spitting up, having diarrhea and he's been trying to eat grass when he goes outside! My tiny, elderly one has spit up several times, had diarrhea and has had days where he just doesn't want to eat at all! One night, he appeared to be having constipation, when he finally was able to go. There were traces of blood in his stool! And our tiny girl, who is just two years old, we rescued her off the street recently, she really liked the diet food too, even though she doesn't need it. We do try to get her to eat her food, but she always ends up getting into the other dogs food anyway. It's hard to feed three dogs three different kinds of food. She also has just started spitting up and having diarrhea too!

I switched my dog to Royal Canin SO a few months ago to alleviate her bladder stone issue. She had both types of crystals. After a month of the diet and more frequent pit stops and encouraging more water, all crystals disappeared. As we made it through the first quarter of her second bag, one day, she became slightly lethargic and began vomiting through the night. I brought her to the vet and the first thing they noticed was a high fat content in her blood serum (A few months ago before starting her food, her blood work was flawless). I am waiting to hear from the vet tomorrow and suspect to hear bad news about her triglycerides, etc. She just pooped and it is clay-colored and pasty. This is a sign of acute liver failure. As I read previous posts, my worst fears are becoming a reality. Spread the word! Royal Canin is bad news.

I agree with the two recent reviewers. There is something going on with the Royal Canin Renal LP cat food. She was switched to the Renal LP last year and she has had diarrhea on and off. But since she was on the specialty brand, her kidney issues did not progress, so I stuck with it. However, I opened up a new bag for my cat that I bought in April and she started having severe diarrhea and stomach pains and was extremely agitated. I've had her on antibiotics for over a week and the poor thing still is not well. She keeps throwing up everything and is still agitated. I had x-rays and tests done, but they couldn't find anything physically wrong - no bowel obstruction, no bladder infection, no crystals - so I really think it's the food. I don't think there is enough dissemination of this to the doctors because I checked with my doctors and they had never heard of pets with diarrhea issues for Royal Canin.

Indoor 27 making cats sick: Two healthy cats, a 10-year-old Chartreux and a 9-year-old Osicat, have been feeding Royal Canin for their entire life with good results. I trusted the product. Two months ago, the cats started to vomit food soon after eating. I initially blamed this on stress due to a residential move. I trusted RC too much, but after cleaning near daily vomit, I changed food. No more RC. I observed immediate relief for the poor cats, immediate change of attitude, and no more vomiting. Please contact Mars. Let them know someone screwed up and help the cats and their owners. Any reader should be aware that this could be your problem before you spend, spend, and spend some more.

Due to our vet telling us to switch to Royal Canin allergy cat food, we did and purchased it from their clinic. They said our younger cats could eat it too. Both our 8-year old and our 1-year old ended up with explosive diarrhea for months. One of the younger cats passed away after becoming quite lethargic with a very high fever. The vet test totaled over $1,000. The two cats living were given three types of antibiotics each for over a month. Finally, we were so upset at our cats having this explosive diarrhea and worried tremendously about the long term effects to their organs, we found this website, read similar stories and stopped the Royal Canin immediately. I put them on Blue Buffalo canned cat food, and now their diarrhea has disappeared after about two weeks on the new food. The explosive diarrhea stopped immediately though.

I got a puppy Yorkshire terrier puppy that was 8 weeks old. I took him to the vet for his first exam and asked the vet for advice on the best puppy food I should be feeding him (the breeder was feeding him Kirkland brand puppy food). She immediately pushed and recommended either Hills Science Diet or Royal Canin. I chose Royal Canin because it had small breed puppy food specifically made for the Yorkshire terrier breed. Within the first 5 days of slowly mixing the RC food with his old food, he started having severe issues with constipation. He would try to go forever with no relief. I was so worried the poor little guy was going to die of an obstruction.

My two healthy cats, 11 and 12, have taken a turn for the worse soon after eating Royal Canin Feline indoor mature dry cat food. They have been eating it for two years. This last bag may have been tainted. Vomiting cats, one now in the hospital. She couldn't stop throwing up then it turned to two and a half days of barfing spittle. The other cat can't eat. I'm out of my skin with work and anger. I will report it to the feed store where I bought it to pull its products off the shelf. BTW, both cats, just three months ago had their geriatric check ups and blood work and were very healthy.

My cat ate these foods exclusively (Royal Canin Siamese and Older Cat Formula) and died last week at the young age of 12. After reading all the comments on this page I am concerned that her ailments may have been caused by her diet. What is being done to investigate the situation?

My dog has had liver issues since he was a puppy and has been on Royal Canin Hepatic Dry for nearly six years with no health episodes in that time. I mix this food with low purine foods because the ingredients in this food are pretty bad, but it has kept him in good shape until recently. My other dogs receive premium organic along with home cooked food and I always felt bad that Jack, my liver shunt dog, had to eat something not as nutritious.

My 12-year old cat has been on Royal Canin Urinary SO-Feline Dry Food for 5+ years to help the formation of crystals in his urethra, which has kept him hospitalized and in serious condition for over a week before. At that time, the vet placed him on this food, saying that this was the only food that would viably keep the urinary crystals from re-forming.

My cat has been on Royal Canin low fat canned food for several months. Last week, I bought a new supply and my cat ate only a little of the first new can and then was so sick that I took her to the vet. The vet said there were no recalls for that food, but I changed to a different low fat food. So far, so good and my cat is back to normal. She will not get any more of the Royal Canin.

My 10-year old dog has been on Royal Canin S/O prescription dog food for nearly 2 years. The food formula was changed over the summer, although Royal Canin, the company has denied that. I learned this when I contacted their customer service rep after my dog became ill. I was told that they had changed one of the ingredients over the summer. The food I was using had been produced after this change.

It's the royal canine baby dog milk, 1st stage milk. I always buy your dry food but never knew you had puppy milk so I normally get Lactol. When I did buy a 400g kit of yours, I was really shocked to see the date on the packaging. It only had 3 months date on it from purchase whereas Lactol gives you a good 18 months plus. Also, the smallest teat made the milk come out of my puppy's nose as the hole was too big for my pup.

I bought a bag of Royal Canin PR dry cat food from a vet in the last week of October. He has always been an extremely healthy cat. No UTI's, no adverse reactions to booster shots, and was strictly an indoor cat. He got renal failure and went into a state of no return, and I had to put him to sleep on Saturday, Nov. 19th. I am devastated because I bought this product, and it is the only thing that was changed in his life. I believe it took it. I am taking the product back and asking for my money back. I am so angry that I trusted the vet, and bought this product. I will never use it again.

After 2-3 weeks of starting my 3 1/2 yr. old Yorkshire Terrier on Royal Canin for Yorkshire Terriers, he started having seizures. I had the vet check him out. After taking him off the food 2 days ago, he hasn't had another seizure. There is something in the food that is causing the seizures.

A fourteen (14) year old cat, with urinary problems, was given Royal Canin SO33 cat food by our veterinarian. Our cat loves the food, and his urinary problems have disappeared. I trust our veterinarian to know if a brand of cat food have issues or not. Others who have posted bad experiences with this brand of food need to consider other causes since this food is sold nationwide. The number of complaints is few, and if there were major problems, vets everywhere would have been alerted.

I am a foster parent for an animal adoption group in Houston, Texas. I have fostered hundreds of cats over the last 5 years feeding various brands and formulas trying to find a food that worked well for all of the cats in my care. Several years ago I thought that I had found the right food. That food used to be Royal Canin, but no longer. I will never trust this brand of food again. In September several of my foster cats came down with diarrhea. Since I foster a lot of cats and there is a constant change-over in my house, the vet and I suspected that there was a parasite that did not show up in a fecal sample. We treated for various parasites and continued to get negative fecal results as more of the cats became affected. Finally around Thanksgiving, the vet decided we needed to throw in the towel and send off for a lab fecal to see what was actually going on since nothing we tried had any success.

My indoor-only cats have been on Royal Canin for several years. Since July 2010, I have had two cats die from renal failure and one is still critical. The other three are being treated for U.T.I. Two cats have died and one is still in renal failure. Three cats are being treated for U.T.I.--all at the same time.

Six months ago, I switched my two cats to Royal Canin as I had read this was one of the best foods. My cats began itching, which the vet attributed to dry skin. The cat that is eating Royal Canin #33 for Sensitive Stomach has been pulling out her hair by the bunches, scratching bald patches on herself, and has extremely dry skin. My vet said the way to cure dry skin is from the inside out--give them a better quality food. I though I was. Now I must figure out who really has a high quality cat food. I only hope I have caught this issue in time and no further damages will occur once I get them switched.

I have a Persian cat and a Havanese dog that have both been on Royal Canin food since birth. The cat is four years old and recently had a physical and is in great shape. The dog is three years old, eats Royal Canin mini dental and is perfectly healthy. These are exclusive foods for these animals. They have not had GI problems or any other problems related to food. They are both indoor animals. The dog is treated with Revolution once a month for flea control. The cat has never had a flea problem. So far, so good for using Royal Canin. We have heard nothing regarding problems with Royal Canin from our veterinarian.

It is indeed a pleasure for me to join these voices against this company. I had cats since I was a girl, we're a cats lover's family, so I had a lot of experience caring this fabulous animal. My complaint is against a product, which is commercialized here in Ecuador as Fit 32. I have a rag doll and I've been feeding him with this product for almost a year. Before that, my cat was fed with Persian, and Sensible 33 (Royal Canin made in France) and everything was okay.

We've used Royal Canin products for our cats for some years and recently, (2009-2010) we have noted our cats went off their usual flavors e.g., Siamese 38, Oral Sensitive, even the kittens went off RC Kitten. We settled on a mix of Kibbles like Special 33 and Selective 35. However, our cats always had digestive issues even with these. Luckily, we always complemented their foods with feline nutritional supplements, just in case. Now, RC just suddenly pulled their selective 35 product and replaced it with a trio of products which our cats will not touch.

I have been a breeder for 32 years and have specialized in Japanese Bobtails for the last 25 years. I used Royal Canin for many years in the 90's and eventually switched over to Purina when Royal Canin changed their formula and the main ingredient became a grain. Last year, I learned that the product had been reformulated and the main ingredient in some formulas is now chicken or turkey. So, I began using Royal Canin again exclusively in November of 2009. Since that time, I have had six experienced queens miscarry their litters, have premature births and stillborns. I have never had a female deliver early since I began breeding Japanese Bobtails in 1985.

This is an update on the complaint I filed back in Dec. 2009. After bad problems with Royal Canine puppy food and not knowing where to turn, my friend suggested Bil Jac. I called the rep and was very impressed with what he had to say about their food. In a 15 lb bag of puppy food, there is 10 pounds of fresh chicken from American farms, corn from American farmers, no rice or other things from China. All American grown and made.

This company also is owned by Mars, see the current pet food complaints posted regarding Nutro Pet Foods. Something is going on with all the recent/current complaints regarding the pet foods manufactured by Mars-owned companies. Mars needs to pay attention and investigate! Many of us, who have been long-term users of their pet foods, are experiencing serious problems with currently purchased pet food batches.

I'm a dog lover & owner for last few years. I'm also an uninterrupted customer of your product for last 3-4 years. Every month, I purchase at least 40-45 kg premium food from your company Royal Canin.Your food is too good, that's why I'm paying for it & its true that now I'm totally habituated with your food. I can't think any thing as a substitute of your food despite the fact that there are so many other companies in our country as you know better than me that India is a growing market of the world.

I have 3 cats that have gotten sick on Royal Canin Renal LP- Modified C dry cat food (7 lb. bag). The cats couldn't keep the food down, vomited several times each. I don't know the far-reaching effects of using this cat food, but am now worried I have inadvertently damaged my cats' health in some way.

I started using the Royal Canin Selective 35/30 for my Siamese cat. After many tries with other foods, this was all he would eat. It said it was for fussy eaters. My cat is now 14 mos old, and Ive been feeding him that food exclusively for approx 10mos. I noticed my cat vomiting his food, not completely digested after a few hours of eating it. Then his coat started to become dull and sparse. He was constantly scratching; he developed a bald spot on his head. After 3 times to the vet, the vet said it must be allergies to his food. This food has corn gluten in it. Cats don't digest corn. I am so upset. I thought I was feeding my cat the very best. I will warn others about this food also.

My two 3-year old purebred Siamese cats recently died from complications from a condition called Dilated Cardiomyopathy. The treating veterinarian cardiologist said this condition is very rare in cats because it is caused by a diet deficient in the amino acid Taurine and all commercial cat foods are required by the FDA to contain sufficient levels of Taurine. The cardiologist tested my cat's blood to determine their level of Taurine. The tests results indicated they were critically deficient in Taurine. My cats had been on an exclusive diet of Royal Canin's Green Peas & Rabbit Feline Formula for approximately two years. The veterinarian cardiologist then had me bring in a sample of their food to be tested for Taurine levels. The food was tested by the Amino Acid Lab at the UC Davis School of Veterinarian Medicine. The Taurine levels in the food were found to be a fraction of the level required by the FDA.

My cat was diagnosed with renal failure nearly three years ago. The vet recommended putting her on a wet food for cats with renal failure. The only food she will eat is the Royal Canin Modified Formula. Recently, Royal Canin told the vet they changed the label (from yellow to blue) but the formula was the same. Not only can I tell from looking at it that the new LP formula is different, but my cat won't eat the new formula or any other food made for cats with renal failure. The result is my cat’s health is now declining, because she doesn't have the proper food to eat. I can't understand why Royal Canin would make this change and say that it is the same product when it obviously is not.