Freeze Dried Raw Chicken & Lamb 0.77 lb

I have a weird cat who will refuse to eat. This is the only product ive found that he will actually eat enough of to stay alive! Thank you!

I understand that removing water in freeze drying means that water must be added back. I do not permit my cats to eat this dry even though supposedly it says that I could. The food would require water from someplace to become useful and therefore it could be expected that physical pellet expansion would happen on the stomach. As a careful feeder I let this expansion occur before the eating. Dry kibble needs water in much the same way it seems, but the process making that is heat which alters the structure. The meat is meal and bits of many other things. What makes this different is that the mixture is made of whole body parts and just a few things added. I followed the instructions of ratio for preparing. One cup of this freeze dried food mixed with one cup warm water. It is quizzical then that it would not be fully absorbed the way I expect. Chi la of food difficult to chew that I have to squeeze with my fingers. So the thought occurred to me that I could use a process of measuring, waiting and blending. I thought that surely it would thicken as a puree in blended form in fifteen minutes. First, my cats are puree eaters. They love puree. The one-to-one ratio does not puree. It liquifies in the blender. When I go through the process and pour this liquid in serving cups, they eat it like they have never eaten anything before. All that moisture being lapped up with their tongues, and all that food with it. Just so anyone here can know, that these cats drink it and they finish their portions with commitment within minutes. Then they do not ask me for any more food for an entire 24 hours. They are calm. Sated. They sit next to me and they are not begging. They sleep. They are really taking to this liquid, but they have dry food on free choice they nibble on. I feel like this liquid form might be good for their digestion and hydration. I am in the first few days of this strategy. It relaxes me to have calm cats. If I add less water, I would worry about their teeth chewing on raw bits. With liquid they do not have that issue. I also add dental health additive to the food water so I know they have it. My cats hopefully will continue benefiting. I did not see anyone writing another review about the liquid result from blending the recommended proportions. I do not know if a full to.e liquid diet is good or bad. That is why the thickness is "3" but they take it in enthusiastically.

This product seems very well sourced and made. However, although I would like to keep using - but after re-hydrating the product my (older) cat had a VERY difficult time swallowing the small, SHARP, bone pieces in the formula. For using the rest of the bag, I immersion blended the dry product, and then pressed through a screen collander (very time consuming), to separate out the tiny shards of bone. A young, very healthy cat should not have a problem with this product. Update May 24, 2025: Since April 2025 when I wrote my original review, I have purchased this 3 more times and am screening out anything that cannot go through a feeder syringe. A wonderful product and my cat enjoys it (shown by how he grabs at my hand to feed it to him). Update: Thank you! for your offer of a full refund, but NO, I do not want a refund. You have created a wonderful product, and I'm asking you to not change a thing. I wrote my feedback to be positive and honest information only, not to cause you any harm.

Giving a one star review because while my one cat likes it just fine my other cat throws up just about every time he eats it. At first I chalked it up to him eating too fast or from switching foods too fast, but after I came back to read the other reviews I saw that other people had this issue with the food. I was hoping to switch to freeze dried raw since my cats are picky about actual raw. I had really high hopes for this food as the ingredients seem to be very high quality but I think I’m going to send the second bag I bought back. I don’t know what it could be that’s causing the puking and I don’t want to take a chance feeding my cats something that could harm them. I saw there were 7 other reviews out of 197 about cats vomiting so mine would make it 8 out of 198 which is 4% of people who bought this food from this vendor whose cats got sick. That seems to be too much to be a coincidence. The company should probably look into this further.

If you have a cat with unexplained vomiting, read my review. I just want to share what happened with my cat…she was throwing up frequently, at least several times per week. Tried all the tests and I honestly believed this was a super high quality food which is why I kept buying it for YEARS. We did feed her other foods for variety, but most were cheaper so I kept changing those assuming they might be contributing to her issue. One time this food was out of stock and we ran out for 2 weeks and during that time she didn’t throw up once!! I was shocked, but I stopped feeding this food and now she rarely throws up—just the occasional fur ball during a season change when she has extra fur. It’s been over 15 months or more so I wanted to come back to share my solution…the vet just wanted to prescribe all this medication and things and all we had to do was stop feeding this. I’m not trying to knock this brand, but the evidence was clear for us that something in it didn’t sit well with our cat despite my initial denial. It might not be the case for every cat so if you feed your cat this and it works, great please don’t let me dissuade you! But my review is for anyone like me who was dealing with unexplained digestive issues and never thought it was this expensive high quality food contributing…