Royal Canin Feline Hairball Care Dry Cat Food15.3% dietary fibre · adult

A cat grooming herself swallows a surprising volume of hair — her tongue is built to pull it loose and there's nowhere for it to go but down. Most of it passes through unnoticed. What doesn't collects in the stomach, and you find out about it on the rug at four in the morning.

The approach here is to keep things moving rather than to break the hair down. Total dietary fibre runs at 15.2% — very high — with psyllium in the recipe at 0.5%, and psyllium is the useful part: it forms a gel that grips the hair and carries it through the gut rather than letting it settle and mat. The rest is a complete adult food, with the coat-condition side attended to as well, because a coat in good condition sheds less in the first place. Most owners notice a real drop in hairballs within a few weeks.

• Hairball Control
• Digestive Health
• Healthy Skin & Coat

Ingredients

Dehydrated poultry protein, vegetable protein isolate (L.I.P. — protein selected for its very high digestibility), maize, vegetable fibres, rice, animal fats, hydrolysed animal proteins, wheat, maize flour, maize gluten, beet pulp, yeasts and parts thereof, minerals, soya oil, fish oil, fructo-oligo-saccharides, psyllium husks and seeds (0.5%). Additives (per kg) — Nutritional additives: Vitamin A 25,000 IU · Vitamin D3 1,000 IU · E1 (Iron) 32 mg · E2 (Iodine) 3.2 mg · E4 (Copper) 10 mg · E5 (Manganese) 42 mg · E6 (Zinc) 88 mg · E8 (Selenium) 0.05 mg. Preservatives. Antioxidants.

Looking after it

Store in a cool, dry place, sealed. Use within six weeks of opening. Brush her — this handles the hair she's already swallowed, but every brush-stroke is hair that never goes down at all, and the two together work far better than either alone. Fresh water matters more than usual on a high-fibre food. A cat retching repeatedly without producing a hairball, or one who's off her food, needs a vet — that can be an obstruction rather than a hairball.