Wanting to help him to recover he asked Dr Morris to help. He developed a food being convinced that the problem lay in his diet and developed a diet that he felt would be of specific benefit to his condition and had success thus the concept of science diet pet food was on the road to development.
Dr Morris Sr. passionately believed that the quality of lives for pets could be enhanced and prolonged by feeding them the right food and helping pets with certain conditions could all have their health benefit to all pets.
Dr Morris Sr. in partnership with Hills pet nutrition went on to develop more age and condition specific diet food in their research lab in Kansas.
The work moved on
His son, Mark Morris Jr. took up the mantle and further developed the range in association with Hills Pet Nutrition developing science diet dog and cat food made available to professional breeders and veterinarians.
Choices
They have a range for kittens up to 1 year old and then for adult cats up to 7 years old and a senior variety for older cats.
In the dry food for kitten range they have 6 varieties.
In the wet canned range for kittens there are 5 varieties.
The adult cat 1 to 7 is well represented with the choice of 12 dry food varieties including hairball control weight and hairball control combined, sensitive stomach, sensitive skin and other specific benefit diet including indoor cats.
The adult cat wet canned food range is an immense range of 16.
The mature cat (7 years and older) range of dry food has a range of 3 beneficial for kidneys, hairballs and indoor cats.
The mature cat wet canned food range again has 3 varieties all promoting kidney and vital organ health in senior cats.
They have a range of natural food diets for kittens there are 2 dry varieties, for adults 2 also.
Choosing the diet
With their prescription range, they have a feature on their website that allows you to enter specific needs i.e. kidney, bladder, oral and skin as well as many other categories and the site will point you towards the product that is designed for that specific requirement.
What the people say
Science diet has a very large range of age and condition specific diets but reviews are certainly mixed. Some reviews are almost entirely negative whilst others are overwhelmingly praiseworthy.
It’s difficult to know what o make of it and who to believe. Generally, consumers give a balanced view but sometimes some of the complaints are baseless and scant on detail and specifics.
Things are said like I gave my cat Science Diet and 2 weeks later they died. Obviously, this does not mean to say that the reason the health of their cat declined was due to the food but the review contributors seem to believe it.
On the other hand, the ones that totally praise it one review after the other are a little suspect also but who can say really what is behind this. Suspicions of reviews arranged by the product maker do come to mind but there is nothing to say that that is the truth behind it either.
Best thing to do is read them all, you make up your own mind, and some of the criticisms are somewhat bizarre while others seem credible. Some of the praise is a little contrived too so making head and tail of it all is not easy. Read more here.
Ask your cat
They have the range there and there is certainly a lot to consider when choosing the right food for your cat; the rest you have to research further to say one way or the other as to the benefit of Science Diet Cat Food.
The best review is from your cat. If she likes it and does well on it, it is successful.