Limited-ingredient cat food––great if you feed your feline friend a raw diet.
Made with high-quality ingredients, like USA-sourced chicken.
Free of added flavors, fillers, artificial ingredients and rendered by-products.
This all-natural, raw meat recipe is freeze-dried to preserve nutrition and freshness.
Grain-free and gluten-free.
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If your feline friend likes to walk on the wild side, try Vital Essentials Chicken Dinner Patties Grain-Free Limited Ingredient Freeze-Dried Cat Food. This all-natural raw food provides all the benefits of a raw diet in a convenient frozen form and tasty bite-sized nibs. It’s carefully crafted with a 48-hour slow freeze-drying process to lock in flavor and freshness, just like it would taste in the wild. Your cat will love the purr-fectly natural taste of pure, raw chicken. Plus, these limited ingredient nibs are free of added flavors, fillers, artificial ingredients and rendered by-products––only the best for your furbaby!
Wash hands thoroughly in hot, soapy water before and after handling raw pet food to prevent contamination.
Wash all utensils, counters and feeding dishes with hot, soapy water after each use or contact with raw meat and poultry products.
The above feeding guide is based on feeding 2% of body weight. Growing kittens and pregnant or nursing cats may require as much as 3 - 4% of body weight fed daily during early growth and high bio - performance requirement periods.
Preparation: Freeze - Dried Mini Patties can be fed as is or rehydrated with warm water. After adding water, let sit for a few minutes and then serve.
To maximize freshness, do not break original seal until ready to use. Remove as much air as possible when closing zipper and store in cool, dark place.
Best if fed within 30 days of opening.
Transition Instructions
Switch to a purely raw diet slowly. Some pets may take to raw immediately, while others may take longer because they are hooked on the added flavorings in traditional pet food. Take at least 10 days to 2 weeks to gradually transition your pet's diet. This gives the digestive system time to adjust to the new food.
Learn More About Vital Essentials From Our Team of Experts
Give your cat a healthy boost of raw nutrition with Vital Cat freeze-dried cat food. Vital Cat Dinner Patties and Mini Nibs come in Duck, Chicken, Pork, Turkey and Rabbit flavors.
Raw Nutrition Boost
Felines naturally thrive on a raw diet, which promotes vitality and supports health and wellness in all breeds and life stages. Raw cat food makes essential nutrients easier to absorb, and it can soothe a sensitive stomach and even lessen the amount of waste your cat produces. A raw diet can also help your furry friend maintain an ideal weight, strong bones and firm muscle tone.
Limited Ingredient, Raw and Made in the USA
Vital Cat raw cat food is minimally processed, crafted from limited ingredients, and made and packaged in the USA. It contains no fillers, grain or artificial ingredients, just a wholesome meat-based recipe that’s nutritious and meets a cat’s instinctive cravings
100% Made In The USA
Raw cat food made with custom-sourced meats. Made and packaged in America’s heartland, for safety and integrity you can count on.
Limited Ingredient
Made using the fewest, most essential ingredients to provide high-quality nutrition, enticing taste and optimal digestibility.
Grain Free & Gluten Free
Vital Cat is certified gluten free, with no fillers like wheat, corn or soy, and no grains, rendered by-products or artificial ingredients.
Freeze-Dried Raw
Freeze-dried using a unique 48-hour process to preserve essential nutrients and lock in the real meat flavor cats love.
My cat is not a big water drinker, so I'm concerned about feeding this as a strictly dry diet. I know it says they can be reydrated with water, but how much do you add and is it enough to give my cat sufficient moisture in her diet so she doesn't get dehydrated?
Answer by • May 17, 2019
This formula is meant to be fed as a complete meal. If your pet rarely uses the water bowl, choose the option of adding water to help balance out moisture intake. On average, adding 1/2-1 tablespoon of water is needed to rehydrate food.
I’ve never seen cats, wild or tame, eat bones. What nutritional justification supports bone in the food? Muscles and organs are sufficient. And what of the feathers? Is Chewy sure no feathers are included in the patties?
Answer by • Mar 19, 2021
Vital Essentials uses the Alpha Prey Model diet consisting of 45% muscle meat, 45% organs and 10% bone content. Vital Essentials uses only fresh, whole, single-sourced USDA animal proteins. They do not use grains (corn, rice), fillers, artificial preservatives, or rendered by-products.
The tubs were 10.5oz, the new bags are 8oz. How many patties are in the new bags?
Answer by • Mar 25, 2019
While the patties are going to be packaged based on weight, there may be close to 13-14 mini patties per 8 ounce bag.
If I am going from one brand of Raw Foods to another brand, do I still need to slowly transition the food?
Answer by • Jan 14, 2019
Typically, once a pet has effectively transitioned to a raw food diet, most pets can rotate between formulas without issue.
I have been feeding our 3 cats vital essentials for a couple of years now. They love all the flavors of the Pattie’s. Bonus that the product is made in the USA. THANK YOU
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
By Rachel on Jul 12, 2023
2 cats don’t eat
My cats are not picky. I have tried many brands of freeze dried and some non-tasty ones (according to comment) are accepted by my cats, BUT not this one. It smells not delicious according to human, and I’m sure they don’t like it either. Would sniff and walk away, rather starve or eat kibble
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
By Cindy on Jun 19, 2023
they love it
They love it as long as I add a little water and break it into pieces for them. They would eat it without water, but my kitten is crazy when it comes to eating time, so he will choke if it's too dry. I'm glad there are so many options for better ingredients for pet food these days. Freeze dried is so convenient, too.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
By Becki on Apr 14, 2023
The Royals Approve!
I have 4 very picky cats who will turn their noses up for almost any reason, up to and including "proper food presentation". They LOOOOVE this stuff. They forget etiquette and turn into little velociratpors at every feeding. It did take a few shipments to get the correct feeding portions down as well as how to prepare it (crumbled dry or crumbled wet). They all prefer cumblet wet, warmer the water the better absorbtion. Yes, it can come crumbled, but once you get a visual for portions size, it's not so bad. Having the comfort of species appropriate food with no fillers and their litter boxes not smelling like they killed a herd of diseased Buffalo...is a win in my book.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
By Amshel on Jul 17, 2023
cat won’t eat
Unfortunately cat won’t eat them. I tried rehydrating with gravy and still a no
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
By mssweetmary on Apr 7, 2023
Both cats approve
They love it dry. I crumble it to pieces bebe likes it mostly that way. Mooshy eats it either way whole or in crumble. Thank you i think i going check other out too🥰
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
By Casey on Jan 11, 2023
Definitely don't recommend
So just crumbled some up and mixed with water. The smell is extremely awful, it barely absorbed water even after soaking for almost 10 minutes, out of 5 cats who will east mostly anything only 2 readily ate and 1 showed interest. Well.... just followed one around as she vomited up everything she could over 5 times that I finally had to put her in my bathroom to contain it. So disgusting! Maybe I'll chop up for treats??? But probably not because it smells so strong and bad. Don't waste the money.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
By MythicValentino on Feb 19, 2023
Larger than expected!
We were pleasantly surprised by the amount that you get in this bag and the size of the patties. Our cat is VERY picky and loves these. We feed them dry and just break them up.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
By bigsky1 on Jan 15, 2023
It's all my picky eaters want to eat!
Started out using as a topper on wet food they decided not to eat any more. Worked great. Now they don't want anything but crumbled patty! They got the door to pantry open one day & found them pulling the bag out of the kitty food storage basket! They love Vital Cat patties & freeze dried chicken treats!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
By Chris on Apr 17, 2023
Freeze-dried Chicken Patties
The patties are easy to break-up. Takes a bit of time to rehydrate. My cat likes them.