Can I mix Hills and Royal Canin prescription urinary cat food?

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Can you use Hills Science Diet and Royal Canin foods together? My cats hate Royal Canin urinary care dry but love the Hills C/D urinary dry food and love the Royal Canin urinary wet food but hate the Hills urinary wet food. They only eat the wet once a day every other day. I’m concerned now because someone told me that using 2 different prescription veterinary diets makes the prescription diets useless. My veterinarian has never said anything to me about this & knows I use Royal Canin and Hills. Pet's info: Cat | Himalayan | Male | neutered | 5 years old | 12.1 lbs

Dr. Elizabeth · Accepted Answer

Hello, my name is Dr. Shines and I am happy to help. Your friend isn't wrong. No studies have been done to the best of my knowledge, but I don't think it's a problem given the amounts that you feed. The diets do have different mechanisms of action. However, as long as the Hills diet makes up 90% of Milo's total calorie intake or more, it should work just fine. It sounds like Milo only gets the canned food every other day so I suspect it is just fine. When in doubt, decrease the amount of canned food. You could count up how many calories he gets in the dry and how many he gets in the canned. Then do the math and get an exact ratio as well. Then you will have no doubts! I hope this answers your question! Please feel free to reach out any time.

Can I mix Hills and Royal Canin prescription urinary cat food?

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