Instinct by Nature's Variety Raw Market Grain-Free Chicken Recipe Nuggets Freeze-Dried Cat Food, 12-oz bag

My cats eat this but they ignore any really large pieces or tiny crumbs, which means much of it gets ignored, since crumbling this ends up with most of this as crumbs. I'm also not crazy about given my allergy-prone cats chicken, but we've been at wit's end since Instinct got rid of the freeze-dried rabbit meal. I don't mean the mixer mini-bites; those are treats. We depended on the freeze dried rabbit meals as something healthier than kibble that we could leave out overnight or when being home most of the day. Rabbit has been our go-to protein that both cats could eat without having some kind of allergic or digestive reaction. Sorry that I'm using this page to voice my protest over the My cats eat this but they ignore any really large pieces or tiny crumbs, which means much of it gets ignored, since crumbling this ends up with most of this as crumbs. I'm also not crazy about given my allergy-prone cats chicken, but we've been at wit's end since Instinct got rid of the freeze-dried rabbit meal. I don't mean the mixer mini-bites; those are treats. We depended on the freeze dried rabbit meals as something healthier than kibble that we could leave out overnight or when being home most of the day. Rabbit has been our go-to protein that both cats could eat without having some kind of allergic or digestive reaction. Sorry that I'm using this page to voice my protest over the discontinuation of the freeze-dried meals (that were the same size as the mini-bite treats, but contained vitamins/minerals that the treats don't). If you offer this product in a rabbit version, I guess even these crumbly biscuits are still better than nothing, since the freeze-dried rabbit meals were discontinued. Please offer something for those who have cats with allergies & want to avoid chicken (& turkey). We love the new rabbit flavor of the ultimate protein canned food. Now give us a freeze-dried option for raw rabbit meals. Thanks. … more

I began using this product after my 4 yr old cat was diagnosed with kidney disease.. She loves it and now after 3 months, she has no symptoms and has become active again.

My cat refuses to eat this unless we mix it with canned food. She doesn't like the smell. I don't blame her, I don't like the smell either.

Unfortunately, my cats would not even take a bite. I have a 1-1/2 year old male show Persian, a 9 year old female indoor/outdoor cat, and an outdoor 8 year old male cat. Even the outdoor cat wouldn't eat it. I prepared the nuggets as directed (1 nugget + 1 tablespoon of water) and mixed it with Wellness Core Chicken canned food, which is their usual food, at a ratio of 50/50. They turned up their noses, so I added more of the Wellness food; they still didn't eat.

I have 5 cats. 2 are Bengal kittens and 1 is so picky there are not many foods she will eat. She is very small & I was concerned cause she doesn't eat much. However she devours these nuggets! She will only eat them dry. If I add water she walks away. But I am so happy that she loves these so much. My other cats will not eat these. But I am thankful she loves them!

I have a really picky boy. I usually get him Stella and chewy witch he loves. I wanted to try natures variety and he doesn't really care for it.

I was tempted by good ingredients, however both of my cats absolutely refused to eat these nuggets. They did not even come as close as tasting - they immediately turned away upon smelling them! I tried a few times and gave up since they would rather starve than eat this product. Could be they are very picky... not sure...

My ragdolls very picky and love this food and seems to be good ingredients :)

Nature's variety instinct raw market chicken is a great way to introduce your pet to raw food and has safer ingredients than other foods. I was feeding my cats another dehydrated raw diet but switched when I realized the ingredients started to include synthetic vitamin K, which is shown to be carcinogenic. Five out of my seven cats really enjoys this food and it is a great supplement to kibble and wet food in order for them to get variety in their diet. In order to prepare, I crumble a brick and add some water to hydrate and I usually give one brick per day per cat.

what I like about this: i like the fact that this product does not need to be in the fridge - that has saved some space for my actual raw meat. I keep this around for occasions when i am running out of raw meat or my boys need to switch it up a bit. i use a mallet to bring up the brick of meat and then give a pump or two of hot water to bring this up to "body temperature". smells just like raw meat from my fridge! what i don't like about this: this is actually fairly expensive. i did a calculation ounce by ounce - comparing it with primal frozen raw, primal freeze dried. after rehydration, this product is priced approximately $11/lb. with this price, you could have bought the rabbit flavor what I like about this: i like the fact that this product does not need to be in the fridge - that has saved some space for my actual raw meat. I keep this around for occasions when i am running out of raw meat or my boys need to switch it up a bit. i use a mallet to bring up the brick of meat and then give a pump or two of hot water to bring this up to "body temperature". smells just like raw meat from my fridge! what i don't like about this: this is actually fairly expensive. i did a calculation ounce by ounce - comparing it with primal frozen raw, primal freeze dried. after rehydration, this product is priced approximately $11/lb. with this price, you could have bought the rabbit flavor for Primal (rabbit being the most expensive Primal protein. Chicken/turkey for Primal only cost around $7/lb at my local store). so I use this only for emergency sake. nonetheless, this is a good product and it feels more "hygienic" to feed than actually raw food. … more