Primal Freeze Dried Raw Cat Food Nuggets Chicken & Salmon, Complete & Balanced Meal or Topper, Premium, Healthy, Grain Free, High Protein Raw Cat Food with Probiotics (14 oz)

I've been buying this for a while now mostly in store. This option seems a bit stiffer than what's available in store. It still breaks into crumbles but it makes me think this formula is slightly different from what local vendors is selling.Food is quality. There isn't any mystery ingridents. Most importantly there isn't a single gum included in this. It is a bit smelly when rehydrated. I usually cook this using very hot water or putting it into the microwave for 30 seconds. It's the herring oil that makes the rabbit smell unappealing. Scent really doesn't matter to me as I'm not the one consuming it. My cat loves it. As soon as it's out she's on it.This is also good to be used as a kibble topper. I usually put out half a nugget when being served dry. My girl will eat this before any kibble in her bowl. It also makes for a good treat between full meals or as positive reinforcement of good behavior.Price is high but all freeze dried options is expensive. It makes sense given the process used to pull all the moisture out. Because of the cost I can't make this and other freeze dried options the main part of my girl's diet. It would be entirely too expensive. The way I serve these the bag usually last about a week which is mostly dry and half a nugget as again used as a kibble topper.Overall this an excellent buy.

I highly recommend using a BARF diet for pets whenever possible. Prime Nuggets are a great way to do that.I used to order directly from Prime back in say 2009-2011 when they used to ship direct frozen food. We've recently moved and we're having trouble obtaining the product without ordering from Amazon. We usually got the frozen (less expensive) but the small town local pet food store has a limited supply and I'm going to see if they will order the Pork and Venison in the frozen state. We prepare the freeze dried nuggets, four for each jar, breaking or cutting them up, adding water and refrigerating them for the next day feeding schedule. Don't expect a cat to tear apart a big nugget - needs to be hydrated appropriately.I've made cat food for the BARF diet from Cat Nutrition.org. I had the Tasin grinder and sourced the chicken, including the organ meats and any supplements. My cats didn't like it much but I was a novice and gave it to friends for their cats and finally gave the grinder away in 2019. I always thought premium cat food was good as we've been advised it's better than dried up kibble - and I do think that is correct but premium cat food, if too rich and not varied (fish only, chicken only...) we can, over time harm our cat's physiology. For 5 years my remaining cat would only eat cat food tuna and occasional salmon. He developed pancreatitis which required Denosyl, an anti-nausea pill, a cream on his ear to wake up his appetite and 4-5 laser treatments for his pain. After he was eating again, we switched over the raw frozen Primal foods - and surprisingly he ate it up and thrived for a year as much as a 16 year old can on Pork, Venison and Rabbit. We made a mistake recently and tried some Lamb in another brand which put him right back were he was a year prior - in a pancreas episode - because the Lamb raw food main ingredient was heart - too rich.He is on year two with Primal Raw foods only with a weekly serving of fresh boiled asparagus for the fiber and we're introducing a small amount of psyllium husk powder in his food twice per day to keep everything moving in an older cat on a raw diet and two fresh bowls of water daily. He is still on the Denosyl and and a thyroid pill.If I could advise my younger self - I would say learn more about a pet's diet and not from the billion dollar industry that could very easily shorten your pet's life. You wouldn't feed a lion dried up kibble - and a cat's physiology is the same as a lion's.

I started buying these for my cats in March of 2024. They loved them. Had I reviewed this product back then I would have given them 5 stars. The nuggets were easy to crumble and my cats enjoyed eating the rehydrated pieces in a dish or small dry pieces as a treat. Earlier this year the packaging changed, and so did the product. The bricks are a different color, they are hard as a rock, and the cats became reluctant to gobble it down like they used to. I noticed one of my cats was possibly having tummy troubles and started avoiding these nuggets. As soon as I stopped given them this food, the issues immediately went away. I researched and bought another brand to replace this one, and my cats went right back to enjoying their (new brand of) raw treat. I took a loss on a half a bag of this stuff. They hate it so much now I won’t bother, and I won’t risk the tummy issues again. Very disappointed in the change of formula.