Does your cat frequently pass small amounts of urine, meow loudly and appear to be in pain? Such behavior is very typical of urinary tract diseases - for example painful struvite stones or bladder infections. A visit to the vet should be the first step in order to adequately treat your pet. Our KATTOVIT Urinary diet food was specially developed for the nutrition of cats with urinary tract diseases. It prevents the development of urinary stones and helps remove the stones from the body.

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Urinary stones in cats

Urinary stones or struvite stones arise in cats due to an increased concentration of minerals such as magnesium, phosphate and ammonium in the urine. These can join together and initially form crystals and ultimately larger stones in the urinary tract. A high pH value in the urine also promotes the formation of urinary stones. The stones can injure the urinary tract and thereby cause numerous unpleasant diseases of the lower urinary tract (FLUTD, English for Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease) such as bladder infections.

Initial symptoms of struvite stones in your cat may include fatigue , pain when urinating, incontinence and blood in the urine. At the first signs, you should have your furry friend examined by a veterinarian immediately. He can carry out a urine test and take an x-ray to detect the urinary stones.

If the stones are already too large, an operation is unavoidable. However, a change in diet to special food that acidifies the urine is often sufficient. In combination with increased water intake, the stones can be dissolved and flushed out when urinating. This is where KATTOVIT Urinary comes into play: The diet food was developed to combat struvite stones and prevent new urinary stone formation in the long term.

You can find further information on the formation, recognition and treatment of struvite stones in our guide on the subject .

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Our Urinary special food

Illnesses of the lower urinary tract are not only unpleasant and painful for your cat - they can also be very dangerous as they sometimes lead to secondary diseases in the kidneys. To avoid risks, you should play it safe with a special food.

Our Urinary cat food offers the following advantages:

•  Available as dry food  and wet food as complete feed

• contains urinary acidifying DL-methionine and calcium sulfate

• contains less magnesium than usual food

• contains important additives

•  also available as a snack in the form of the urinary drink  and the special cream

The recipe of the Urinary special food contains DL-methionine and calcium sulfate for slightly acidic urine, which can inhibit the formation of struvite stones. In addition, a reduced magnesium content should protect your cat from further urinary stone formation. Thanks to important additives, vitamins and minerals, the Urinary wet and dry food is also suitable as a complete, complete feed for your furry friend.

Sufficient fluid intake is also very important for cats with urinary stones: smaller stones and crystals can be flushed out of the urinary tract with urine if possible. For this reason, we offer our Urinary diet food in addition to dry food and wet food as a tasty drink  .

 

What is special about Urinary cat food?

At KATTOVIT we have more than 20 years of experience in the area of ​​special food for cats. The development of our products and recipes is based on the latest veterinary research. So that your cat can easily get used to the special food , we put our food together in such a way that it is particularly tasty and ensures a high level of acceptance.

We offer our Urinary cat food to prevent urinary stones and urinary tract diseases in various flavors - for example with turkey, chicken, tuna or veal - as both wet food and dry food as well as as a drink and special cream. So there is something for every cat's nutritional plan. The minerals and vitamins contained in KATTOVIT complete food provide your cat with everything it needs for a long and healthy life.

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Can you also give healthy cats Urinary cat food?

The Urinary cat food is intended to help inhibit and prevent the formation of urinary stones. The diet food therefore not only helps cats who have suffered from struvite stones in the past or are even currently ill, but also four-legged friends who have an increased risk of urinary stones. Urinary stones mainly occur between the second and sixth year of a cat's life. The risk is further increased for castrated animals and those who are overweight. A diet containing unsuitable dry food can also promote the formation of urinary stones. Cats that only eat dry food run the risk of not drinking enough fluids. As a result, they urinate less often and small crystals are not flushed out of the urinary tract in time before they develop into larger urinary stones. It is therefore advisable to avoid dry food as much as possible and, if the risk is known, to also give healthy cats the urinary diet food as a preventive measure.