Hill's Science DietHairball Control Light, Adult 1-6, Weight Management & Hairball Control Support, Dry Cat Food, Chicken Recipe, 7 lb Bag

My cat loves this stuff, which is great because he’s on a diet to keep from getting big. The real trick to this product is its larger size kibble, which takes your cat longer to eat it.

We have been using hill science products for our 3 cats about 2 years now. Overall, these seem to be easy to digest (no vomit after eating) and we have seen a reduction in the hairballs. Of course you have to keep up with the regular maintenance of brushing and grooming your pets but after having to clean up time and time again (remember 3 cats!) and then seeing a difference (I think it took maybe 1 month? ) we definitely noticed significantly less hairballs around the house. Amazon has a great price for these compared to competitors and our vets have highly recommended this product and seen much success with their other clients.

Our cat is a major hairball thrower-upper.... We struggled with hair balls/large food throw up on the daily.We started with cheap Purina Indoor, then switched her to the Purina Naturals, then to the sensitive stomach version, and of course trying the wet food options, as well. All these changes were obviously very gradual as that can upset their stomach as well. Then we tried Blue Buffalo Hairball which I was SO hopeful would work. I also upped our grooming of her to about 3-4x a week with a furminator. While this cut down the vomit to about 1-2 times a week, I was convinced it was still not good enough.Finally, we bought this on Amazon and we saw immediate improvement in the hairballs. She still threw up maybe once a week or so for a while, so I have now COMBINED this with the Hartz Hairball Paste and *HOORAY* she only throws up once a month or so. I would call once a month throw up a major success.I just wish my cat liked wet food, as I would think that would have helped the hairball issue right from the start... What cat doesn't like wet food? She is so weird.

My cat loves this brand.

oh, this purchase is such a miss for me. My cats don't even come close to the bowl when they smellthis food. I mixed a handful of this food in their old dry food. ouch. My cats did not eat for two full days,they kept sitting next to the bowl and look at me with the expression "Where is our food, mama..."I had to give up. I threw away mixed food and gave them old dry food.I put 3-4 pieces of this dry food in my cats' wet food instead and it almost works - they manage to eat2-3 buried in wet food. My cats have a huge problem with hairballs. I am hoping this dry food mixedwith canned food from Hill's Science will cut hairball "accidents" on my carpet at least a little...12/01/14...OK, my cats did not want to touch this food. But I did not want to waste this whole bag of food.So after failure when mixing it with their old dry food, with wet food I gave up. But, later, I put bowl of this dry food next to their feeding area and after few days they started to eat it little by little and now it is all good! haven't have hairball vomit on my carpet so far! OMG. if this food works I am the happiest person alive.

So, this product met my expectations, if not my cat's.I have two cats: a 17lb tuxedo, and a 13lb tabby. My tabby has terrible teeth (sadly genetic), and had a tendency of shoveling his food in his mouth to then vomit it up later. Cats right? Previously we had been using royal canin, and I still love that brand. Tabby had been on it since being a 3 week old kitten.When he started his gorging and purging, our vet said he's just eating too fast, so we put large rocks in the food dish to slow him down. That problem was mostly solved. But it meant that certain pieces of kibble were near impossible for either cat to retrieve. After trying a variety of things to help with his teeth, we switched to royal canin oral variety. The biggest thing to note about it is that the kibble is much bigger. He started to chew his food, and we were able to remove the rocks without return of gorge and purge.However combination of price increase and product availability, led me to search for another kibble. I'm sure the pet smart lady thought I was insane as I felt up every single bag of cat food in the store trying to find one with an equally large kibble. That's how I came to try this variety.The cats took to it well, were eating a little less, but my tuxedo was having looser stool. After talking with vet, he pointed out that hairball and light varieties can have more fiber and be a little harder for a kitty to digest. He suggested kitty probiotics. Within a day tuxedo's stool was normal.Now my tuxedo is a fatty, doesn't look like it, but he enjoys food and tends to overeat things he loves. Kinda like me. So it was even better he had also dropped from 17 to 15.75lb over 6 months. Woot. I felt like the food was incredible and the perfect pair to all of the ways I'd been working to increase my kitty's activity level. I wish my story could end here....We received a free sample of Purina pro plan shreds. And that's when I discovered that my tuxedo was eating less and losing weight not because it was a better food, or because of the million ways I've been trying to encourage exercise, but because he didn't like the hill's science diet food. So he only ate what was necessary. I discovered this because he ate the Purina pro plan like I eat a cream puff, then begged for more.Right now, I mix the two: this hills science diet and the Purina proplan. The variety in kibble size helps prevent tabby from shoveling his food, and satisfies tuxedo love for the tasty things in life.

Our cat likes it. It helps from throwing up more often

I started feeding my cats science diet from The start as kittens due to my vet's recommendation. I have a short haired and long haired cat. Both of them are decently active and they maintain a healthy weight. They're 3 and 5 respectively with no major health problems. My long haired cat ended up with a bowel blockage due to hairballs a few years ago and ended up needing major surgery. After that switched this food for prevention. (Catlax also goes a long way.) They love this stuff and eat it right up and I very rarely ever see hairballs. (Although her problem was that it wasn't coming out of either end.) Honestly though, they're vultures and not picky at all. They'd probably eat just about any food I put in front of them.