Stella & Chewy's Duck Duck Goose Dinner Morsels Freeze-Dried Raw Cat Food

Stella & Chewy is one of the two best quality and most palatable freeze-dried cat foods available. Every single one of my cats through the years have loved them. No fillers in this food! Whereas few of my crew of 8 cats will eat duck in the form of raw or canned, all will eat it freeze-dried. Of note - none of my guys will eat freeze-dried if it’s been reconstituted (water added). They will only eat it dry. In its dry form it’s their preferred food over all others. The only things to watch for are potential constipation issues arising in susceptible cats and the need to crumble the pellets to avoid choking if the food is eaten dry. I have had two boys who cannot have the food due to preexisting Stella & Chewy is one of the two best quality and most palatable freeze-dried cat foods available. Every single one of my cats through the years have loved them. No fillers in this food! Whereas few of my crew of 8 cats will eat duck in the form of raw or canned, all will eat it freeze-dried. Of note - none of my guys will eat freeze-dried if it’s been reconstituted (water added). They will only eat it dry. In its dry form it’s their preferred food over all others. The only things to watch for are potential constipation issues arising in susceptible cats and the need to crumble the pellets to avoid choking if the food is eaten dry. I have had two boys who cannot have the food due to preexisting issues with constipation. My crew’s main diet consists primarily of locally produced raw food along with some canned, they get the freeze-dried for daily snacks, crumbled onto canned foods, and for the occasional meal. The only limitation I have to feeding Stella & Chewy is the Cost of the product. Photo: Sweetie, one of my five lovely rescued siblings. … more

SINCE adopting my cat as a 16 week old kitten, for over 2 years she was literally bones and her BMs were like pudding or squirts stinking my whole house up for hours no matter what litters or disposal systems or air fresheners I used. I couldn't have any visitors over and visits from family were quite vocal. I didn't want to give her away because she was the gentlest and sweetest cat ever, but have to admit I did for a fleeting moment when frustrated and couldn't remedy her problems. . . . . . I TRIED various high end canned, dry, home-made, vet visits, vitamin supplements, and probiotics. Nothing worked. I read about trying a raw diet, but due to Covid and shortage of ingredients, SINCE adopting my cat as a 16 week old kitten, for over 2 years she was literally bones and her BMs were like pudding or squirts stinking my whole house up for hours no matter what litters or disposal systems or air fresheners I used. I couldn't have any visitors over and visits from family were quite vocal. I didn't want to give her away because she was the gentlest and sweetest cat ever, but have to admit I did for a fleeting moment when frustrated and couldn't remedy her problems. . . . . . I TRIED various high end canned, dry, home-made, vet visits, vitamin supplements, and probiotics. Nothing worked. I read about trying a raw diet, but due to Covid and shortage of ingredients, was the reason I had stopped making her food in the first place. Preparing fresh raw food wasn't an option, in my research for an alternative, Stella and Chewy freeze dried food for cats seemed worth trying. . . . . . DUE to my cat's sensitive stomach, I transitioned her over a month mixing in one tidbit each of Duck Duck Goose and the Chicken Salmon variety with her existing canned food. When she was about 50/50 I started to see a difference that her stools were beginning to take shape. At 80/20 normal with slight smell. At 100% her stools were normal, no smell, and my bony cat started to gain weight. She has only been on the food for over 2 months now. When 100% on this food, she started with 1/3 cup a day total. Then it varied where some days total 2/3 to 1 cup a day -- fed 2 to 3xs a day (due to being severely underweight I feed her AM, noon, & PM). Today writing this review, I can no longer feel her ribs or hip bone or divots at the base of her tail. Her hair now glistens. . . . . . AFTER 2 years trying everything, I am extremely excited that I found food she can tolerate, gain weight, normal stools, no smell, looks and feels better. This is why I proclaim it literally saved my cat. PS family visits are no longer met with complaints about my house stinking. … more

I just got this product this week, and my four-year-old kitty girl has been having it for dinner for just three evenings, so I'll have to come back and write another review after she's had more time to hopefully adjust to the change. As of right now, the only way I can get her to eat it is if I mix some of her canned food in with it, which is fine for the time being, but I eventually hope to not need to do that extra step. Once the canned food is mixed in, though, she does clean her plate. I'm not saying this is a bad food, because I'm sure there are plenty of cats who will absolutely go nuts for it; mine is just picky. But we will keep trying. My one complaint is that the pieces are really big I just got this product this week, and my four-year-old kitty girl has been having it for dinner for just three evenings, so I'll have to come back and write another review after she's had more time to hopefully adjust to the change. As of right now, the only way I can get her to eat it is if I mix some of her canned food in with it, which is fine for the time being, but I eventually hope to not need to do that extra step. Once the canned food is mixed in, though, she does clean her plate. I'm not saying this is a bad food, because I'm sure there are plenty of cats who will absolutely go nuts for it; mine is just picky. But we will keep trying. My one complaint is that the pieces are really big. It would be nice if they were smaller and more bite-sized for kitties. … more

I have an 18 year old cat that has suffered with IBS (severe diareha) for most of her life. She was on a special prescription diet and daily medication and it still persisted. She was at the point that she didnt come out of her bed to eat and we were thinking of putting her down. Instead I decided to try a raw food (I had thought about doing this many years ago and our vet talked us out of it, telling us raw food was very dangerious). At this point I figured she had nothing to lose. The change was almost immediate, its been a little over 2 months now since we switched her food to Stella & Chewy's freeze dried raw and she is a totally different cat. Her IBS is gone and she is active, happy and I have an 18 year old cat that has suffered with IBS (severe diareha) for most of her life. She was on a special prescription diet and daily medication and it still persisted. She was at the point that she didnt come out of her bed to eat and we were thinking of putting her down. Instead I decided to try a raw food (I had thought about doing this many years ago and our vet talked us out of it, telling us raw food was very dangerious). At this point I figured she had nothing to lose. The change was almost immediate, its been a little over 2 months now since we switched her food to Stella & Chewy's freeze dried raw and she is a totally different cat. Her IBS is gone and she is active, happy and playful and she loves to eat. I rarely write reviews but this food has truley been a life saver for her. … more

I was looking for a new cat food that my cat would enjoy. She has a sensitive stomach and can only eat limited ingredient foods. I had been feeding her different brands of duck but the wet cat food I feed her she wasn’t a huge fan of nor the dry food. I put this one next to her wet one and she smelled the other and went straight for this. She really enjoyed it and it doesn’t upset her stomach. It’s a keeper!

This used to be amazing. Nice, small pieces (not cat kibble small, but about as big as an average piece of large dog kibble), and soft enough it easily crumbled. My cats loved it. Fast forward to this latest shipment (2 bags, both the same), and the pieces are much, much harder, and it takes a decent amount of pressure to even squish them when dry. It almost seems like this batch was processed on different equipment, or maybe with cat ingredients to dog Stella & Chewy specs? The pieces are double the size too. Very odd. But I can’t recommend this anymore. My one cat won’t even touch it, dry or wet and he was the biggest fan before. The other two cats will eat it, however we have been having some This used to be amazing. Nice, small pieces (not cat kibble small, but about as big as an average piece of large dog kibble), and soft enough it easily crumbled. My cats loved it. Fast forward to this latest shipment (2 bags, both the same), and the pieces are much, much harder, and it takes a decent amount of pressure to even squish them when dry. It almost seems like this batch was processed on different equipment, or maybe with cat ingredients to dog Stella & Chewy specs? The pieces are double the size too. Very odd. But I can’t recommend this anymore. My one cat won’t even touch it, dry or wet and he was the biggest fan before. The other two cats will eat it, however we have been having some horrible, smell it all the way in the bedroom when you wake up poops too. Very much not impressed. … more

My cats are finicky with raw based foods. While I do not believe this brand to be top quality it is finally a brand that my two female cats won't refuse straight out of the bag and my male won't entirely refuse when I add it to their canned food and all three will eat when mixed with canned. I generally crumble it up and mix it with canned food for them. It makes me feel better to know that they are at least getting some raw in their diet. Until they decide that they are okay with other brands and even then I will continue with this brand for my cats to sneak into their diet some raw food nutrition.

With this flavor, not even my feral rescue would eat it. Apparently this one doesn't even smell appealing to her. Again, they come out looking like packing peanuts, very light in an extruded large pellet. When rehydrated, they pretty much turn to mush. I used warm water, hoping to excite the smell senses. The two older, non-feral cats drank some of the watery gravy I made, but wouldn't touch the solids. The feral rescue turned her nose up and gave me "that look."\

I've been giving my cats two nuggets each morning as a treat and they sit and wait at the cupboard where the bag is stored until they are fed. If they hear the drawer being opened during the day, they rush down in hopes that there is a second treat coming.

Kitten LOVES these things. I am trainsitioning him to dry food like the rest of the cats - I moisten a few of these and mix with dry food for him. But they are sooo expensive! Too much for five cats. Not all of them like it anyway. One other likes them as a treat.