InstinctOriginal Pate Wet Cat Food, Grain Free Recipe - Real Salmon, 3 oz. Cans (Pack of 24)

Great ingredients! My cat also loves the taste! The cans look small but I feed my adult cat a half a can at each meal and it’s the perfect amount for him! It’s a little more pricey than other brands but I trust the ingredients in this food than cheaper brands!

I have a cat with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). His case is mild, and the only symptom was unexplained weight loss. After extensive (and expensive!) testing, we got the IBD diagnosis. Cats with this condition are notoriously picky, difficult to get to eat, etc. Vets will often recommend that cats with IBD have only wet food with no grain, and I've been told to keep this cat off chicken, turkey, beef, fish, and pork, as well, in case one of those aggravates his condition.He was eating a prescription duck food for awhile, but started refusing it. I was running out of cat foods to try and had been holding out on getting the Instinct because of the price. (For what it's worth, Amazon has the best price I've been able to find on this product, and I've done a lot of shopping around.)I finally gave in and decided to try the lamb formula because it did not have any other proteins in it (the venison and rabbit contain pork liver and the duck contains turkey liver).Well, my cat (Mr. Kitty) loves the Instinct lamb. This is a high-calorie food -- about 260 calories per 5.5 ounce can. Mr. Kitty gets one and a half cans a day, or about 390 calories. Please be forewarned that that is a LOT more than you would want to give a cat in good health and/or at normal weight, but Mr. Kitty has lost 1.5 pounds and I'm trying to bring his weight back up. (His appetite is increased because of a medication he's on.)I am very happy with this food. All wet cat food smells a little bit, but the Instinct lamb doesn't smell very much compared to some of the others I've tried on my cats in recent months. You see broth and fat when you open the can, but these seem to have attractive flavors for Mr. Kitty. The lamb is a little crumbly although the moisture level is not particularly low compared to what I feed another of my cats (75% for Instinct lamb versus 78% for Merrick Cowboy Cookout).The texture is also good for cats with tooth problems, for what it's worth. This food appears to be all meat, and none of those weird processed composite chunks you see in other wet cat foods. (Mr. Kitty has terrible teeth -- had six of them removed last month -- so this is a concern.) I do mash it up as it tends to retain the shape of the can. If I am taking it out of the refrigerator, I will heat it in the microwave for about 15 seconds, as Mr. Kitty seems to like that temperature better.My other cats are jealous of Mr. Kitty! I do wish this food came in a package that contained more than 12 cans, though.Update, January 11, 2013: Mr. Kitty has gained 0.4 pounds in about two weeks, eating 1.5 cans of this food per day. (He's also on prednisolone.) For an IBD cat, this is amazing, and is exactly what I wanted!

EDIT 3: After running out of cans, I ran to my local Petco. Once again, NV caused my cat to vomit, albeit I gave them one final chance and figured there may have been some soap left over from washing his plate. After testing my theory with a paper plate and getting the same result, I've finally given up on this brand. The numerous times I've had my kitty get sick from bad batches has made me lose my trust in this brand, especially since they rarely ever recall food despite numerous people complaining on amazon. I fed him tuna after the last 2 NV cans made him sick, low and behold he didn't vomit! Poor thing was starving. I've temporarily switched him to Wellness striped chicken and he hasn't thrown up.I advise anyone looking to buy this brand to look elsewhere. The company never replied to complaints on amazon right up until recently when numerous 1 star reviews started appearing. I still have the 2 empty sealed cans they packaged. One would assume numerous bad batches would imply amazon doesn't keep these properly stored, but if Petco is having bad batches too I am to assume either this brand has an ingredient that causes a reaction, or QC is slipping at NV which is very likely. Sayonara Nature's Variety, it was lit.EDIT 2: Got another empty can in my orders, this is starting to get ridiculous. Quality check is slipping at NV, you can't ask NV for compensation from their mistakes as they'll tell you to ask for a refund/replacement from your vendor. Yeah, because Amazon is seriously going to give you your money back for 1-3 empty cans or send an entire order to replace the rouge cans. Very disappointing customer service at NV, they happily send out free samples but no replacement for obvious factory duds? I paid for 24 cans not 22.EDIT: As of September and October I can no longer rate Instinct 4 stars, it's dropped to one.Being a faithful customer to Natures Variety since 2011 I've seen the inconsistencies between batches. I've seen cans come full, others quite full of gravy but moderate amounts of meat, to atrociously dented cans while the food remained intact and healthy. Whenever my little guy would eat instinct regardless of the flavor he would gobble it up. If he ever were to throw up it was his own fault for not taking it so slow. Not this time. I received packages from amazon, after my mailman lost my package once then delivered it to the wrong address, and one package had 2 rouge cans in one batch of 3 oz case of 24 chicken. One can had no label and the other was hollow! They actually delivered me a can that had no food in it but was sealed! By no means is this Amazons fault, both these batches were sealed by the factory. The other batch, a best by date of June 03,2018 had gone bad.The entire 24 cases were gray colored instead of the usual pink/brown you'd see. It had a bit of a pâté consistency. Absolutely no gravy whatsoever, and when trying to cut it up for my little guy it felt like the meat had gone bad at the factory before shipping. A very spongy texture. My cat ate a bit and had a reaction to it. He wouldn't stop licking his face and started to throw up. I figured it might have just been that one can but opening another one revealed the same thing. He refuses to eat them and would rather starve than eat that specific batch. I still had some cans from a previous shipment left over and he would happily eat those, they contain the old style of gravy/meat. I'm not sure if NV changed the formula or if this is a bad batch, but I'm willing to bet my money its a bad batch. I've sent a complaint to NV and encourage anyone else with bad batches to complain as well.Very good quality canned food. I had purchased this 3 years ago when I adopted a severely underweight kitten. This helped him recover to a healthy weight and he can't get enough of this food! The gravy may be inconsistent from batch to batch but overall should be there. The only thing I'm wondering is what caused Nature's Variety to increase the price. To the more exotic flavors I could understand but there's no shortage of beef nor chicken. Why the jumps in prices? The limited ingredients versions would be understandable but not this one. In their defense it hasn't increased exponentially to my knowledge lately, is it a union thing?

Old cat has digestion issues, so he needs wet food and we add spinach for extra fiber. He loves this and it helps keep him regular.

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I've been buying this brand of food for my cat for a couple of years now and she LOVES it. I also love it because there are more calories in these small cans compared to most other brands. Great for a senior cat who needs a bit more calories :)

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Really good quality and my cat loved the different flavours 😸

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