Royal Canin Sterilised in Gravy is a complete wet food for neutered and spayed cats over a year old — thin slices in gravy, built around the specific problem that sterilisation creates: a cat that needs less energy but often wants more food.

What sterilisation actually changes

Neutering removes the hormones that drive roaming and territorial behaviour, so activity drops. At the same time, appetite frequently increases. A cat that needs meaningfully less energy is now asking for more food than before — and if the bowl keeps getting filled the same way, weight follows within months.

Weight matters more here than vanity. Neutered cats also carry a higher risk of urinary stones, and excess weight compounds most feline health problems. Feeding for the change, rather than after it has shown up on the scales, is the point of a food like this.

• ✓Controlled energy, moderate fat. Lets your cat eat a satisfying portion without the calorie load that causes the gain.
• ✓Higher protein to hold muscle. Cutting calories can cost lean muscle; a raised protein level is there to protect it.
• ✓With L-carnitine. Royal Canin include it to help the body convert fat into usable energy.
• ✓Mineral balance for the urinary tract. Formulated with urinary health in mind, which matters more after neutering than before.
• ✓Moisture with every meal. Wet food carries water into a cat that would otherwise drink too little — useful support for the urinary system in a hot climate.

Feeding it

Royal Canin make this formula as a loaf and as dry kibble as well as in gravy. If you feed both wet and dry, use their combined feeding guide rather than a full measure of each.