Feline NaturalGrain-Free Freeze Dried Cat Food - Beef & Hoki Feast, 11 Ounce - High Protein Cat Food from New Zealand, Natural Ingredients, Supports Digestive Health & Energy

This is my favorite freeze dried product for meals, but with the price point is high for a small size it’s better off as a topper to boost the nutrient value of something like Friskies or Fancy Feast.The pellets are small so as a topper they’re perfectly bite-sized. Also very easy to crush and mush in warm water or goat milk as a meal on its own.Feline Natural has an awesome blend of ingredients that provide a high protein content, and also recipes that don’t include fish. I like that they include NZ green lipped mussels for joint health. My cats LOVE mussels but I don’t like to buy whole freeze dried mussels since they’re really expensive so to include them in these recipes is a great bonus. The list of ingredients isn’t long and everything is recognizable.Smells like meat and everything that a cat’s proper meal should smell like. It isn’t over-powering or off-putting, but it isn’t appealing to humans of course. Lol.I feel confident when I feed this to my 3 cats that they’re getting a great, nutrient-rich meal whether I feed it alone or as a topper. My female cat, Mia, who is the most sensitive, never has any digestive issues after consuming FN. On top of that, all 3 of my cats LOVE every recipe FN has to offer. I’ve never had a single problem with them eating any of the recipes.Five stars. Love it. Just wish it wasn’t so expensive but it’s understandable as to why it is. (Occasionally our local independent pet store has free 1oz samples so I like to go there and check!)

We have 3 cats - all getting on the older side and each one dealing with a different health issue. Even using prescriptions from the vet, they were still not feeling well. So, I started looking into what we were feeding them and found out that all cat food sold in pet stores use meal and other fillers in their dry foods and the wet foods all had agar or something similar to make the food more palatable. The problem: all of these foods are bad for cats' health. I also found out that feeling them foods without those additives can help keep them healthier. So, I have been feeding them this food (plus two other freeze dried foods from New Zealand where they don't poison their soils, waters, or livestock). I was able to wean all the cats off their meds (slowly) and waited to see if they got sick again. They did not. In fact, they are healthier - - they are playing more and clearly are more comfortable. One of them has started jumping up on the kitchen counter again. Something he hadn't done for the last year. Not that I'm happy about a cat on the counters, but I take it as a sign that he is doing much better. And...best of all, the cats love the freeze dried foods. You just have either put some water in the food bowl or have lots of water available for them day and night. I do both and they dig into their food bowls with gusto.

This stuff is really good.PROs:1) Very high quality ingredients - zero fillers, 98% meat.2) Extremely high processing standards (New Zealand - which has far higher standards than the U.S.).3) Critters really dig it -- and now usually go on strike over their "regular" food, as you can see from the pic (Sigh).CONs:1) The bags are 150% bigger than they need to be. The product settles to the bottom 1/2 to 1/3. Leaves too much air in there to oxidize. Why do this?? In fact, why not vacuum seal these suckers and get them shipped at half the cost? You could turn this into a small brick sized package. Anyway.2) Insanely expensive. (But understandable given ingredients, quality, and shipping from NZ). They are available on Subscribe n Save.... but you save only about forty cents. Wicked expensive. (Sigh.)3) This is possibly idiosyncratic -- our cats only eat it dry in the little weird pellet-ish form (like sawdust). When we add hot water to rehydrate to make 'normal' food texture, they respond with mild disinterest and it usually sits there all day with a only few nibbles taken out of the goo. Sot this perplexes me. Would that not be MUCH preferable? (I read somewhere that the zillions of little hairs on their tongues (for grooming) are very sensitive to textures and produce strong likes/dislikes...?) Having said that -- to be frank -- as long as they are drinking enough water (which these do), who cares? Less work for us AND... don't need to worry as much about spoilage throughout the day! So.... upon reflection... this is actually a "PRO" :-) Move to the other column. Win! Win!

Smells awful. Tiny amount for the cost. My cats took one bite and refused to try more. Non-return item. A total waste of money all around.

This is expensive: really expensive. You get what you pay for — excellent, species appropriate ingredients that are transparently sourced. I use this as a topper, snack or treat. Not as a full meal. If feeding only this food it would get too expensive really fast.My cat loves Stella and chewy’s dinner morsels, but ever since he was diagnosed with urinary crystals I’ve been concerned that the S&C’s recipe has too much bone. Cats with urine issues need low phosphorus and magnesium, but Stella & Chewy’s recipe is very high in both due to bone content.I found this alternative while reading about the best raw freeze dried foods for cats with urine issues. It’s lower in phosphorus / bone than other freeze dried foods and still has the quality ingredients.These pellets are smaller and feel denser than other freeze dried raw cat foods I’ve tried. The size is good because it’s easier to feed a couple as a treat, and I assume the extra surface area helps rehydration go faster. The density though does slow down the rehydration process. They can stay hard for a while.My cat does like these, but seems to prefer the Stella & Chewy’s. Too bad for him, as these are better given his condition!