Royal Canin Urinary SO is a popular veterinary diet prescribed to dogs suffering from urinary issues. While its price may be steep and its ingredients uncommon, many dogs with frequent bladder issues find this food helpful.
This diet is designed to increase your dog’s urine output, helping dilute excess minerals that could lead to bladder stones and crystals as well as creating an environment unfavorable for struvite and calcium oxalate crystal formation.
Contents
Hydrolyzed Protein
Hydrolyzed protein food for dogs bypasses their immune systems to help them avoid skin allergies, digestive issues and appetite loss. It promotes regular bowel movements while decreasing bloat. Plus, with its unique blend of soluble and insoluble fibers it provides comfort to their stomach while helping prevent intestinal reactions like diarrhea.
This food also contains brewer’s rice, an excellent source of carbohydrates easily absorbed by your dog. In addition, there is a moderate amount of calories and fat so as to maintain optimal weight in your pet. In addition, the formula offers B vitamins, amino acids and omega-3 fatty acids such as EPA and DHA which promote skin and coat health in your pup!
This food includes sodium selenite, which is considered by AAFCO not essential and may be harder for your dog to absorb than other sources of selenium. Furthermore, menadione, linked with liver toxicity and allergies in some dogs is included as a potentially allergenic component in this dish.
Prebiotics
This food is specially formulated with prebiotics and dietary fibers to aid in digestion and support intestinal health, while fish oil fatty acids soothe your pup’s sensitive stomach. Kibble can easily be rehydrated to make digestibility even simpler for sensitive stomachs like your own puppy’s!
This formula is designed to support your dog’s urinary health and reduce the risk of struvite stones reoccurring through urine acidification, which dissolves existing crystals while helping prevent their reappearance. Furthermore, magnesium levels are kept low which helps minimize formation.
Some pet owners have reported that their dogs appear lethargic after switching to this diet. This could be due to mild digestive discomfort or simply adjusting over time; if your pup shows any other signs of health concerns, consult your veterinarian immediately.
Fiber
Royal Canin Urinary SO in Gravy helps your pup maintain urinary health by decreasing the recurrence of struvite stones. It does this by increasing water consumption to dilute urine and creating an environment unfavorable to stone formation, and using Relative Super Saturation (RSS) methodology to decrease urine concentration levels – further helping stop struvite and calcium oxalate crystal formation.
This food has moderate caloric intake to support weight management in your pet, providing essential soluble and insoluble fiber, prebiotics, Omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and more to support digestion and stool quality. Furthermore, its flavorful formulation may entice reluctant eaters while its ingredients allow for easy digestion.
Chicken byproduct meal is not to be confused with whole chicken meat, as it consists of the waste products left from processing chicken into human food and can contain various nutrients like organs and cartilage along with less desirable fillers like feathers.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Royal Canin has developed diets specifically suited for different sizes of dogs. Their breed-specific line features foods developed for health conditions; size-specific foods cater to large breeds, giant breeds, small breeds, medium breeds and petite breeds.
Veterinarians frequently prescribe urinary health food for dogs who are experiencing urinary problems, to increase urine output to dilute excess minerals that lead to stones or crystals and to promote a healthier urinary environment that can help minimize future episodes of urinary issues. This food also works to promote overall urinary health while helping minimize their recurrence.
Maize makes up the main ingredient in this food, followed by poultry by-product meal made of organ meats, cartilage and fillers such as feathers. Furthermore, Royal Canin is currently testing microalgae as an innovative and sustainable way of providing essential EPA and DHA fatty acids to their customers.
