For decades, the Hill's brand produces a feline high-level feed - monobellates and with vegetables, with lightning makeup, dry and in the form of canned food. But animal owners first acquire this product often concerns the question: the best ration options they choose, while the comparison is made with Purina Pro Plan, Royal Canin, equal to the class. To understand everything will help a detailed analysis of the feline feed Hill's in composition and series, with customer reviews.
general description
Hill's cat feed is a product of an American company, more than 80 years have been successfully implemented and developing their products. Initially, the manufacturer's country was only one - the USA. Then Mark opened plants around the world, including in the EU countries. It is they who today produce food sold in Russia.
Carefully designed rations are one of the main advantages of Hill's. The feed of the premium class and the supergraduate diet are created with the direct participation of veterinary doctors, healthy nutrition specialists, breeders who know all the subtleties of growing certain breeds of cats. All available diets are divided into 3 separate rules:
Ideal Balance;
Science Plan;
PRESRIPTION Diet.
The composition of the majority of dry feed includes fresh meat and flour from it. Most often, the main raw material is a bird - chicken, turkey. In hypoallergenic products, use lamb or rabbit meat. The fish component is represented by tuna, salmon.
Significant share of grain and cereal crops occupy. In this capacity can be rice or wheat. And also in the composition of bean cultures - corn, peas.
The fat component of the feed is very important for cats. Hill's use products derived from fish or chicken, as well as useful vegetable oils.
The fiber is presented in the ration of the brand is not too abundant. Its main sources are dried beet pulp, as well as other components of plant origin. All of them contribute to the normalization of the digestive function, stimulate the work of the intestine.
Each package of cats is waiting for a specially selected vitamin and mineral complex. Depending on the age-related indicators, the degrees of mobility, the presence of diseases emphasis can be made on the ingredients:
strengthening bones and teeth;
improving the smell from the tray;
supporting heart health;
extending youth;
preventing MKB recurrences;
removing wool lumps;
contributing to the normalization of metabolism;
Improved vision.
Kittens get strictly dosed vitamin and mineral supplements. Adult cats are offered in moderate quantities, sufficient to maintain the basic vital functions of the body. Special therapeutic diet have the designations that determine the type of diet appointed by the veterinarian. Their use is better to advance with the attending physician.
In the process of obtaining dietary nutrition, the pet should take analyzes every month so that their condition remains under control.
Assortment of dry food
Cat dry Feed Hill's industrial production is packaged both in compact packages and in bags of 7-10 kg and 15 kg . All types of products are divided into rations for kittens, elderly and adult animals according to their age. Hill's feed does not produce hormones, artificial dyes and preservatives, their composition is rich in antioxidants and easily dismissed proteins. For cats after castration, the product line is suitable, which takes into account possible problems of sterilized animals.
The breed features are also taken into account. For main-kunov and other nurses of large breeds, feeds are suitable with an increased size of the granules and high calorie. For Sphinxes - rations with hypoallergenic formula for sensitive skin. Messenger diet will reduce the risks of manifestation of negative intestinal reactions.
The taste variety is also quite large. Formulations with vegetables are less calories. Options with chicken are universal, like almost all cats. A valuable source of protein can also become a tuna or salmon, an additional promotional wool and skin and healthy skin. If you are tired of vegetable food, you can try a monobel, with 1 view of meat.
For adult cats
Cats over 12 months need a balanced and rather simple diet, helping to provide a pet organism with the necessary nutrients. For these purposes, SCIENCE PLAN diet is optimally suitable. Among them, the owners can easily find the best solution for their adult cat.
- Adult . The main ruler intended for pets without health problems. Adult pets Hill's offers dry diet with duck, tuna, with lamb and chicken. Every taste can be mixed with others within the series.
- HairBall Indoor. Homemade cats that do not leaving the limits of human dwellings are experiencing problems, unknown to their wild fellows. The formation of wool lumps in the stomach is one of them. This feed is designed specifically to combat such a source of discomfort. Helps to remove accumulating wool from the stomach of the animal.
- Oral Care. . Caring for the health of the teeth is an important part of the duties of the owners of the animal. Toothstone, pathogenic bacterial microflora in the form of plaque on enamels represent a serious danger to cats. To eliminate them or slow down these Hill's processes offers with a special granulated feed with food fibers that improve the state of the oral cavity.
Porous granules give the effect of mechanical cleaning, complementing the effect of feed.
- Urinary Health . Easy Formula Formula with chicken to prevent the development of urolithiasis in adult semi-natural or sterilized cats. Among the ingredients there is an animal fat - the source of omega-3 and 6 acids, L-carnitine to prevent weight gain. Magnesium, potassium and phosphorus in a strict dosage, a special combination of vitamins - all this helps to preserve the health of the cat.
- Perfect Weight. Healthy weight - the basis of the cat's longevity. Special feeds with dietary chicken meat and prebiotic fiber helps it normally. The weight loss with it can be done long-term, and the result can be held for a long time. Food is high-protein, helping to normalize the ratio of fat and muscle mass.
- Sensitive Stomach & Skin. Special nutrition for animals, prone to skin or gastrointestinal reactions to certain products. Food is rich in fatty acids and fiber, containing rice contributing to good digestion. The source of animal protein here is a mixture of turkey and chicken flour, light and nutritious.
And also Hill's has a line of dry feed PressRaption Diet. It contains special dietary diet for the correction of different cat health problems. It is important to know that it is recommended to choose such a meal under the control of a veterinary doctor based on topical analyzes. Some feed are adapted to life use, others - to short-term.
For kittens
In the Feline family, it is customary to divide animals up to a year for 2 age categories: up to 6 months and up to 12. The first of them are kittens, which can be gradually giving softened and dry food within a mixed diet. First give no more than 5 g, gradually increasing the dosage 10 times to 3 months. Hill's for such kids is the feed of the Science Plan line with chicken or tuna.
Food for kittens contains a full-fledged mineral complex, a versatile comprehensive need for substances for cellular metabolism. Stimulants of the immune system and DGK for the development of the brain - these are the components to which the brand bet.
From 6 months, kittens can be sterilized. For whom such a procedure has already been carried out, special nutrition is required. Category Young Adult with duck from Science Plan Sterilised It will help the pet not to gain overweight. Food in packing 300 g, 1.5, 3 or 10 kg with body weight control function additionally maintains urinary tract health due to low levels of certain minerals.
For seniors
Older cats are less moved, weight gain weight, have problems with digestion. All these factors need to be taken into account when selecting the diet. Hill's offers elderly cats several products.
Science Plan Senior Vitality . A special diet, created to maintain the activity of a pet, preserving the clarity of thinking and interest in life. Poultry meat protein is the main ingredient. Among the unusual components you can select dry squeezes of tomatoes and broccoli.
- Science Plan Mature Adult 7+ . This product is available in 2 taste variations - with chicken and tuna. The size and shape of the granules are selected, taking into account possible problems with chewing in older animals. The composition is formed in such a way as to maintain the health of the pet, its main functions at the proper level. Light protein components and valuable vegetable protein sources provide the necessary energy supply of an elderly cat.
Science Plan Sterilized Cat Mature Adult 7+ . Sterilized mature cats have special nutritional needs. This feed uses a special formula for the selection of ingredients to control body weight. Cats are obtained by light-reserved proteins, strictly dosed minerals for the prevention of ICD, L-lysine and L-carnitine.
- Science Plan Hairball Indoor Mature Adult 7+ . A special diet, preventing the formation of wool lumps in the stomach of the older pets, not leaving to the street. This low-calorie feed with healthy chicken meat, turkey and valuable tissue. For the health of wool and skin in the composition there are well-digestible fats - fish and animal.
Special dietary food is an important factor that affects the extension of cat life in adulthood. Hill's offers balanced rations that are fully appropriate to all the features of the lifestyle of older animals.
Pugi.
Liquid food can be a good addition to the main menu or completely replace it in the catering of the cat. Hill's role is played by packages - miniature packages for 1 portion. The brand has several series of goods in this category.
Youthful Vitality. For cats over 7 years old with chicken or salmon.
- PRESRIPTION Diet. In a special series of medical nutrition, taste variety is somewhat wider. There are products with beef, chicken and salmon.
- Science Plan for kittens. Among the most popular tastes here can be distinguished by turkey and gentle ocean fish, as well as chicken meat in the form of miniature pieces.
- Science Plan for sterilized cats. Puffs with salmon are suitable for pets older than 6 months, including castrated. You can also choose an alternative with turkey, chicken or trout.
Science Plan Adult. Full nutrition in the form of wet pieces in jelly. The delicate tastes of chicken and turkey will enjoy everyone. Fluffy gourmets will appreciate the taste of ocean fish.
Pouch - a convenient format for those cats, which are difficult to spray dry granules. An animal can be completely translated into this power option if it experienced the loss of teeth or suffers from gum inflammation.
The meat ingredients in such a diet contains much more than in dry, it is easier to absorb, contributes to the softening of the chair.
A variety of canned food
Delicious canned pate has a consistency like most cats. Hill's such products are oriented both on mature pets from the Senior category and adult or young animals. In the Science Plan series, there are even MUSS 1ST Nutrition for kittens, containing easily digestible protein from chicken and turkey meat. Adult cats older than 1 year can try other pies:
with salmon;
with Chiken.
Parsheets of therapeutic lines have their own purpose. Kidney Care takes care of the health of the kidneys, Metabolic contributes to the normalization of metabolic processes and body weight. In the period of exacerbation of the urolithiasis, you can give a petty feed of U / C. Separate products in the PreScription Diet series have and to reduce excess weight with sugar control, and to solve food intolerance problems.
No less interest and feed in the format of stegu . It also applies to veterinary diet, produced in compact jars, contains high-quality vegetables and chicken meat. Such nutrition can be shown at the ICD, gastroenteritis in any form, with kidney problems. Consistency Raga resembles natural chopped meat. They like animals, regardless of age.
Comparison with other brands
A beginner breeder is quite difficult to figure out which feed is better for the cat. Especially since the advertised brands are always on the hearing, and it seems that there is no big difference. Enough to take one of the products of the class premium or SuperPremium. But not all feeds withstand an equivalent comparison with Hill's. It is enough to explore the 2 most popular brand analogue to make sure.
Royal Canin. . A manufacturer with a wide range of feed for puppies, adult animals, there is even dairy mixes for feeding kids. There is a detailed division by groups - taking into account the activity of the pet, its inclination to various diseases. Hill's wins here in a more careful planning of the composition of the rations, in the openness of information on the ingredients. Strong oiliness and dark color of the ROYAL CANIN granules also alarms cat owners, but at the price it turns out to be quite profitable acquisition.
- Purina Pro Plan. The feed of this brand was once widely used by breeders of tribal animals, but later many buyers were disappointed in their composition. Compared to Hill's in them too many vegetable protein and little ingredients of animal origin. In addition, a strong and sharp smell of feed indicates the presence of aromatic additives. There are products under the brand name Pro Plan cheaper analogs.
Comparing other popular feeds with Hill's, it can be noted that the American manufacturer pays maximum attention to how diverse the breed features and cat preferences are. In this, he is definitely no equal. All other indicators are a pet taste.
Review reviews
Buyers managed to leave not one hundred reviews about Hill's feeds. It can be seen that the share of positive opinions about this nutrition accounts for almost 90% of all messages. . The owners of cats note the ease of selection of rations for allergies and other animals with special constraints. A brand from high-profile promises is also positively evaluated - the packaging describes actually achievable results.
Puffy and canned this brand buyers are even higher than dry food. Cats like their taste diversity, and the owners are the composition without unnecessary components capable of pose a threat to favorites. The power line in the form of veterinary diets is especially valued.
You can not deprive animal varieties in choosing a food consistency, even if there are health restrictions.
Almost all encountered negative feedback on Hill's feeds are associated with their wrong selection. For example, if the products against wool lumps are purchased with miserable cats or when the ICD is given a regular diet. And also to minuses include difficulties with the purchase of certain types of feed in stores.
