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

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.

Don't write too many reviews on products, but felt obligated to do so for this one. I have a male cat about 9 years old named Cooper that was showing all the telltale signs of feline hyperesthesia. He had chewed the tip of his tail raw, to the point where he had to wear an Elizabethan collar, which he hated, and it broke my heart to watch him with it. He also had extreme twitching and rolling of the skin on his back, like he was trying to shoo off flies. My vet said that unless a change of diet changes his condition, he'd probably have to go on medication or have his tail amputated, which are two pretty terrible options, in my opinion.Started reading all I could find about cat diets, which led me find the benefits of a raw diet. Cats have only been eating this corporate-made kibble for about 100 years, which isn't enough time for their bodies to evolve to handle it. Some can and do, but many have issues. But most raw diets are extremely tedious, and as much as I wish I did, I just didn't have the time to design and fix a raw diet for him everyday.Enter Primal Nuggets. I saw these online and decided that I had nothing to lose by trying them. Cooper was a little skeptical when he first sniffed them, but soon started eating them. My other cat won't touch them, but she doesn't have any hyperesthesia symptoms, so it doesn't matter. When I first started feeding the nuggets to Cooper, I would put a small amount of spring water into a coffee cup, drop 1 nugget into the cup, and microwave for about 15 seconds, then put it on a saucer for him. He ate them for a few months that way, but then he slowly started losing interest. I also feed him grain-free Wellness Core, and he pretty much decided to switch back to just that. I hated to see that, because--I wasn't sure if it was my imagination at first--it seemed his fur was getting softer, and it looked like his tail was finally starting to heal a little.Here's what REALLY worked for me. I still fill the coffee cup up about 1/3 of the way with spring water and microwave for 15 seconds. But then, I break up the nugget while it's still in the warm/hot water, then I put it on his saucer. The only thing I'm doing differently is breaking the nugget into about 10-15 really soaking wet pieces for him. Now, he can't wait to eat it, and I've been doing this for a few months. He now prefers the nuggets to any other type of food.Here's what it has done for him. Cooper now has full fur coverage on the tip of his tail, and that was after a full year of him biting all the fur off the tip of his tail. My vets couldn't believe it, they say that it's pretty rare for a cat that has that much of an issue with tail-biting to stop without medication. His fur--at 9 years old--is waaaaaaay softer than it's ever been before! He's almost completely stopped rolling the skin on his back, which has to be extremely relieving to him because it had to be very irritating for him. It sure was heart-breaking to watch him constantly twitching. His stools have gotten much more solid, to the point of being completely normal. He used to have diarrhea constantly, and he used to throw up a lot, too. All of that has now stopped. His nose is dry now, for the first time in years, and his eyes no longer have any seepage coming out, which he also battled for years. Cooper--at 9 years old--seems far healthier and happier than he ever has. I just wish I would've found these nuggets a long time ago.So if your cat has feline hyperesthesia symptoms, there is a great chance that it's having dietary issues/allergies. Going to a raw diet is very likely to help all your cat's symptoms, without going on medication. These Primal Nuggets are the easiest, most effective way to get your cat on a raw diet and relieve any food allergies he or she may be having. Good luck, and I hope this helps someone who is as desperate as I was to help their little guy/gal.

Obviously not for everyone! Crushed up 4 cubes for each of my indoor cats and mixed with warm water as directed. One cat sniffed and gave me a questionable look and walked away. the other cat get sniffing and then walked away. Left it there all day to see if they would come back later. NOPE! Decided to rewater and stir it up and put outside for the strays that come to the front porch every night. Next day they hadn't touched it. Stirred it up again and second day even the strays said no. This was a pretty expensive trial that absolutely failed even after watching videos and reading about how this was the optimal things for my cats.

Started buying the frozen product for primal, but then we moved and are unable to get frozen, so I give my cats the freeze dried product. Not sure if the product ingredients changed, but my cats for some reason do not like the beef and salmon and the chicken and salmon. I add water to this for one of my cats and the other cat I leave it dry. Need to see if I can find a broth to soak the food in so they can enjoy it more. Product has what the cat needs to thrive.