Instinct Limited Ingredient Grain-Free Wet Cat Food

Victor Lavigne: My cats love it, I like the clean ingredients

United States on Oct 17, 2023

Sheila Koenig: Soleil, our beloved rescue, arrived w/ colitis. She must be on a restricted diet, primarily Lamb based food. The food is very nutritious, Soleil loves it & she’s thriving!

United States on Aug 26, 2023

McGroarty: Talk to your vet, but this is a decent alternative to some of the prescription-only single-protein cat foods used for cats that develop protein sensitivities. The ingredient list for the rabbit variety stands up well in a side-by-side comparison with the Royal Canin rabbit-based cat food.

It's not quite as pricey as the prescription foods, but still more than double the price of some of the more traidtional cat foods. But you'll rest with comfort knowing it has high-quality and, more importantly, consistent ingredients. There's no generic "animal by-products." That's the catch-all for basically random animal proteins in other cat foods, which can lead to a cat being healthy with one batch, and unhealthy with the next.

United States on Jul 08, 2023

L. Suzy: My cat has been eating Instinct LID turkey 5.5oz cans for more than half a year. It helped her get recover from itchy skin. When we presented her these smaller 3oz cans, she refused to take it. Not a single lick. We noticed that the cans had some dents (as like the big cans), but there was no leak, so we presume the contents are not compromised.
The contents smelled a little different from the bigger cans; smelled more like pork ?!
Other than that, the consistency of the pate was fine.

Very disappointed that my cat wouldn’t eat these smaller cans at all. It’s such a waste of food to throw it away night after night.

Singapore on Dec 11, 2021

NiniAVNiniAV: Again, I have to question the quality of their food. Opened a new case from a shipment received on October 13, 2020 and in the 12 cans I've opened, they all look like the image on the right (on black tray). The image on the left (tan tray) is what the contents normally look like, but with this shipment, there is more juice than actual food.

I reached out to them via DM and received the following response:

Hi Nadine,

Thanks for reaching out! This is common as we do not use gums to bind the ingredients, which is why you’re seeing the extra liquid. The Maximum Allowable Variance (MAV) is within regulatory specifications. You will see variation in presentation from lot to lot, and sometimes within the same lot, as we only source all natural meat ingredients, so by their very nature, there is variation due to timing of harvest, timing of diets (for the animals used in the proteins), seasonal changes and hold over of harvested animals from month to month. Unfortunately, this is the side effect of having an all-natural product. We don't use the common stabilizers, found in more commercial foods, to maintain the same consistency from lot to lot and batch to...

United States on Oct 17, 2020

Reviews I'd Want My Kids To Read Before Buying: WARNING: Contains VOLCANIC ASH, recognized carcinogen, heavy-metal-laced toxic material given GRAS status in 1977 for use in FOOD CONTAINERS ONLY, not allowed for human consumption.

This is the same review I have posted for the other verified purchases of this brand's products, applying to both the dog and cat food containing Volcanic Ash, also commonly called Montmorillonite and Bentonite Clay.

I found this food brand on Dog Food Advisor, a site I love and trust, even today, and began using the Instinct Rabbit, Duck and Lamb for dogs and cats, the canned varieties, with my cat and dogs. We first used the food over a year ago, with health consequences we are still attempting to figure out. However, after a few months of dedicated, exclusive dietary use for our cat, she went into liver failure. The dogs became ill and are recovering after withdrawing the food. The cat's condition is difficult and, unfortunately, we don't know how that is going to play out but our vet is hopeful. Years ago, we had an incident with a different cat and a different food, garlic causing Heinz Anemia. We thought that was irresponsible, using garlic with dogs and cats when they are not human...

United States on Sep 16, 2017