Feline Natural High Protein Dry Cat Food, Freeze-Dried Diet with 98% Meat, Organs & Seafood, No Peas, Grains, or Artificial Additives, Made in New Zealand, Lamb, 11oz

I feed this to my cats on an occasional basis because it is pricy. My cats do love it. The ingredients are good. I splurge a get a bag a couple of times a year and feed it as a “special meal” to both my cats. They get a treat meal.

I use this instead of dry food since one of my cats has IBD and can only eat certain proteins, but all of my cats absolutely love it. It’s high quality though also high priced - always glad to have another reliable and healthy option!

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!

My 2 cats loved the flavor. Unfortunately, both of them threw up within 10 minutes of eating this cat food. I won't even feed it to the ferals that I feed daily outside. Don't waste your money like I did.

They eat it most of the time. They ate the chicken and lamb for a while, but then they tired of it and now they prefer the salmon and lamb. One of these days I’ll try the beef, but I have a CKD kitty on prescription food so I’ll pass for now. My main complaint is how much the price has gone up! And then again after the tariff hit. It used to be around $35/bag and now it’s $42?? That’s insane. I have a subscription through their site which came out to $142.48 for 4 11 oz bags and I just saw here on Amazon my Subscribe & Save was about to charge me $164 for 4. F that! Fortunately I was able to cancel! Unfortunately we had to buy 2 emergency bags at the full price. Ridiculous. I’m going to find a less costly option. I’ve heard Open Farm is good. It’s $25/8 oz here on Amazon so Open Farms $3.13/oz vs Feline Natural $3.82/oz that’s basically a $7.50 difference. I’m going to try that brand. BTW with CKD cats, we were using this with Phos-Bind and her values stayed the same after a year, which is much better than elevating, but then she stopped eating it so we started Royal Canin canned renal support and she went from Stage 3 to Stage 2 in two months! I’d put off using the prescription food because I thought I knew best and I thought raw with Phos-Bind would be sufficient, but the blood work says different. I wish they would come up with a freeze dried raw version of renal food. It would probably cost several arms and legs though 😅. Having to keep her canned food away from the other cats is a chore living in a small apartment. Especially on days when she won’t eat in the bathroom and will only do so if I sit her with me. Enough about that.

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!)

Picky male ginger 15 lbs. (a few lbs over but losing slowly) , 2.6 yrs... Rescue who ate slugs, birds, bugs and squirrels but won’t eat most canned food except: Royal Canine, fancy feast gravy (never pates), and maybe he’ll eat some of the fancier/boutique type cuz I’ve bought all/any with a lot wasted. I know how to entice or introduce a new food and he turned his head and body from Tiki, Nulo, Wellness, Weruva, Dave’s, etc...He likes no pates. I had little option so started sum raw After switching the diet to add raw, he liked Stella n chewy but without an enzyme he doesn’t process too well. He Likes: Primal pork raw n that’s it for raw (same with Rad Cat pork) meaning he ate it readily and without trotting away after he’s been meowing for food (he can be excited for food time and hungry but if he doesn’t like it- he will not eat it and walks off). we still do can and primal freeze dried if it’s pork or the beef n salmon but tried this brand expecting it to be a no go but with a tiny nudge to his lips (god forbid he try a new food) he ate a small amount and some dry pieces. Today at dinner he ate eagerly so it’s part of the rotation. I’ve found an enzyme for hairballs with amylase and protase etc. to be useful with freeze dried for him. His hair is short but downy ginger and he vomited after awhile on Stella n chewy and hacked a line of hair so I don’t think it’s Their product per se, I just feel better with a bit of enzyme with freeze dried products HeAte !! This Will Re-buy!! Want to try a no fish one soon. Nice ingredients yet I believe in some grain which some Royal Canine (yep it’s a sure buy which I’m not thrilled but) packets a few days takes care of and I hear the Primal is high in minerals that a cat doesn’t need (?)... I add a good amount of very warm water to this and it’s easy to mix and makes a gravy instead of watery.

After hearing my friend tout its health and nutritional benefits, I was optimistic about introducing my one-and-a-half-year-old Selkirk Rex to Feline Natural's Grain-Free Freeze-Dried Cat Food, Chicken & Lamb. Despite its promise of a wholesome diet, it turns out that my little furball is not a fan. Even when I tried mixing it with her favorite canned food, she was hesitant to eat it, which was quite disappointing given the product's premium price. While the quality of the ingredients is undeniable, and I appreciate the brand's commitment to natural, grain-free nutrition, it's clear that not all cats will take to it. It might be a hit with other cats who aren't as particular about their food so I wouldn't write it off completely. If you have a cat open to trying new things and you're looking for a high-quality, nutritious option, Feline Natural could be a great choice. It might not suit all palates, especially if your cat is as selective as mine.