Heart-supportive food for Turkish Angora cats

Turkish Angoras do have a known predisposition to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, so you're right to think carefully about diet at 11. Senior cats generally do better with higher protein, reduced phosphorus, and wet food for hydration — but when the heart is a concern, sodium levels and taurine adequacy become just as important. To point you in the right direction: has your cat had a cardiac diagnosis, or is this purely preventative? And what are you currently feeding?

That's a sensible place to be — proactive before there's a problem. The dry food is worth swapping out for two reasons: hydration matters a lot for ageing hearts and kidneys, and many dry seniors are higher in sodium than ideal. Has she had any bloodwork recently, particularly kidney values? And is she a good weight, or has she been losing condition?

That lean, slightly dropping weight pattern is very common in older cats and often signals they need more digestible protein, not less. Given she has no current kidney or cardiac diagnosis but you want to support heart health and arrest the weight loss, I'd move her to Royal Canin Veterinary Health Nutrition Cardiac wet food in pouches. It's formulated with controlled, low sodium, properly dosed taurine, and L-carnitine — all directly relevant to cardiac muscle health — while still delivering solid protein for lean muscle. It's a prescription-line food but widely available on Amazon UK and most vets will approve it without a formal cardiac diagnosis for a breed-risk cat. Start by mixing it with her current food over a week to bring her across without digestive upset.

Technically Royal Canin Cardiac is a veterinary diet and some retailers ask for a prescription, but on Amazon UK it's generally sold without one for cats — it sits in a grey area because the cardiac range is considered supportive rather than therapeutic in the way renal diets are. That said, given your vet already flagged the breed risk, it's worth dropping them a quick message saying you're switching — most will simply confirm it's a sensible move and that covers you. It's also worth booking a cardiac screen in the next few months; an echocardiogram is the only way to catch HCM early, and early caught is very manageable.

Good plan. If she takes to the wet food well and her weight starts to recover, that's a positive sign. If she's still dropping condition in six to eight weeks, go back to the vet — sometimes older cats have underlying absorption issues that need investigating separately from the heart question. Hope she does well.