Hill's Prescription Diet c/d Multicare Urinary Care Stew for Dog Food with Chicken & added Vegetables Can review

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 10%), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables (1.5%), oils and fats, minerals, vegetable protein extracts, seeds. Urine alkalising substances: Potassium citrate (1 g/kg).

The list is written in categories rather than in named ingredients. Meat and animal derivatives comes first, with chicken pinned inside it at 10%, then cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables at 1.5%, oils and fats, minerals, vegetable protein extracts and seeds. Chicken is the only entry tied to a species, so everything else stays at the level of the group it belongs to.

That style of wording lets a maker hold a nutrient specification steady while the raw materials behind it move from batch to batch, which is how therapeutic diets are usually built. It has a practical consequence for you. If your dog is meant to be off a particular meat or a particular grain, this list cannot confirm either way, and the question goes to the vet who recommended the tin.

The urinary side of the design is printed openly. Potassium citrate is declared at 1 g/kg as a urine alkalising substance, and potassium alginate at 5 g sits among the technological additives doing the gelling that gives the stew its texture. Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc each carry a dose, zinc the largest of them at 30.3 mg.

Protein works out at 23.0% of dry matter once the water is gone, and fat at 18.2%. The carbohydrate estimate reaches 48.5%. Moisture is declared at 81.3% and energy at 75 kcal per 100g, so a tin of this goes a shorter way than a denser food would. A starch share that size is a choice made for the urine rather than a target borrowed from everyday feeding, and calcium works out at 0.86% of dry matter.

Hill's prints 99 grams a day for a 1kg dog, 449 grams at 10kg and 1123 grams at 50kg. Those are the maker's figures. How many tins your dog gets, and how long the tins carry on, belongs to the vet who wrote the recommendation.

It is sold as a 354g can.