Instinct Ultimate Protein Grain-Free Cage-Free Chicken Recipe Freeze-Dried Raw Coated Dry Cat Food

I was feeding this food to my three cats and three ferrets and a few months back they started to refuse it. Why add tapioca???? I hate that companies keep changing their recipe

Both of my cats love this food. My dog sometimes sneaks in and eats it too. Would definitely recommend this.

I am so sick of these scummy pet food companies getting customers hooked on a good product only to eventually change their ingredients to save money but charge the same for an now-inferior product. This food used to have animal proteins listed as the first couple ingredients. Now my newest bag has tapioca listed as the second ingredient and the pebbles are noticeably smaller and less fragrant smelling. The cats don’t like it as much and it certainly isn’t as healthy for them. How hard is it for a company to realize that pet owners want a healthy grain-free high-protein kibble with quality animal protein ingredients as the MAIN ingredients, and that we are willing to pay good money for it?! Not I am so sick of these scummy pet food companies getting customers hooked on a good product only to eventually change their ingredients to save money but charge the same for an now-inferior product. This food used to have animal proteins listed as the first couple ingredients. Now my newest bag has tapioca listed as the second ingredient and the pebbles are noticeably smaller and less fragrant smelling. The cats don’t like it as much and it certainly isn’t as healthy for them. How hard is it for a company to realize that pet owners want a healthy grain-free high-protein kibble with quality animal protein ingredients as the MAIN ingredients, and that we are willing to pay good money for it?! Not this food with some trash filler. Will be switching brands and have lost all respect for Instinct and any other brand that uses this same tactic. … more

I have purchased this for my cat for YEARS. I don’t know when it changed but I do remember when I first bought it and I looked at the ingredients, there wasn’t any tapioca. It’s the second ingredient in this food. I understand the meat content is high but I don’t understand why the formula changed and why it’s the second ingredient. The only reason I repurchased this food is because my cat was out of food and I didn’t want to disrupt her feeding by switching abruptly. I have tried Orijen, which she liked, but it’s almost twice the price. I have ordered samples of Essence which is more cost comparable to this food so hopefully I can find a replacement that she likes.

My one cat LOVES this brand! I try and rotate flavors every time we run out of the current one.

Finally something that has replaced the baby food and they love it! They are happy and so am I. It seems to be a good brand too!

Why are they adding tapioca now? Cats don't need fillers! Just real meat. Please go back to the original recipe.

I got this for my cat recently because I was feeding him food that got recalled and had to find something else. He loved the first bag! Second bag I got him he doesn’t seem to like it and it also looks completely different? Not sure what changed within a matter of a month but I probably won’t be getting it again.

Because our friend gave us 5 bags of cat food as gift, we decided to use up those first. So I just stored this product in our basement. One day we suddenly realized Ami did not touch any of the dry cat food in his dish nor finish up his favorite wet cat food any more. We started to worry about his bad appetite but soon we found some kibbles spread in our basement... and a HUGE hole on this instinct ultimate protein! Ami teared the package and buried his head in a whole bag of happiness every night…We fixed the bag with tapes. But the tape did not last for long. We tried to hide the bag somewhere hard to reach but Ami is truely good at hunting! So we gave up. We donated all the old cat food and Because our friend gave us 5 bags of cat food as gift, we decided to use up those first. So I just stored this product in our basement. One day we suddenly realized Ami did not touch any of the dry cat food in his dish nor finish up his favorite wet cat food any more. We started to worry about his bad appetite but soon we found some kibbles spread in our basement... and a HUGE hole on this instinct ultimate protein! Ami teared the package and buried his head in a whole bag of happiness every night…We fixed the bag with tapes. But the tape did not last for long. We tried to hide the bag somewhere hard to reach but Ami is truely good at hunting! So we gave up. We donated all the old cat food and now Ami can enjoy his ultimate favorite. … more

One of my two cats liked it but unfortunately I had to stop using it after she threw it up three times. At first I thought maybe she ate it too fast, but that wasn't the case when it happened three times. My cat has never thrown up on any other food but this one. I gave it two stars because my 7 year old cat liked it (even though she threw it up sometimes) and my 9 month old cat did not touch it.