Nutritional continuity is beneficial
    By feeding your queens and their kittens Royal Canin foods, you
made gestation and weaning safer for them.
By feeding your queens and their kittens Royal Canin foods, you made gestation and weaning safer for them.
    When the time comes for each kitten to leave your care, the change in environment may generate stress for the kitten and interfere with her digestion. It is therefore essential to make any dietary change as safe as possible.
    The new owner must ensure nutritional continuity, making sure that the changeover is harmonious and that the kitten benefits from key health bonuses vital for her growth.
Traditional links with breeders
    From the very outset, Royal Canin developed close links with cat breeders founded on shared values - such as a passion for cats and pooling knowledge.
    This privileged relationship very quickly developed into a true partnership and inspired many nutritional innovations. These have been harnessed to develop technical and specific products for breeders.
With Royal Canin, breeding kittens has never been safer…
    Today, we bring you "Reproduction", a nutritional programme developed for gestating & lactating queens and their kittens. It offers an optimal and precise solution for each stage in the reproduction cycle, from the heat period to weaning…
    With your know-how and our expertise, we have everything to go even further into Health Nutrition.
How is the virus transmitted?
    Herpesvirus is transmitted by direct contact - inhaling viral particles in suspension. Once infected, a cat very often becomes a healthy carrier. This means that the virus is hidden and undetectable, but can become reactivated at any time. Healthy carrier cats are likely to re-excrete the virus intermittently, contaminating other cats within a distance of 1m30. The phenomenon of re-excretion is often triggered by stress (travel for mating, a show, gestation, delivery), which reactivates the virus in the healthy carrier. This is why gestating queens and cats that live in a group are more susceptible.
Is there a vaccine?
    You can get a vaccine from your vet. It will ward off the symptoms or render them less critical. It is therefore essential to vaccinate all of the cats and kittens in your care. The vaccine cannot, however, prevent either viral re-excretion or clinical relapse.