ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Venison Recipe Cat Food - 400 g

ZIWI Peak Air-Dried Venison Recipe Cat Food - 400 g is an air-dried complete cat food made with New Zealand venison, 400 g, at a ratio ZIWI put at 96% meat, organs, seafood and bone.

Key Features

• Built the way a cat actually eats: Cats are obligate carnivores, and a recipe that is almost entirely meat and organ is closer to that than any biscuit can be.
• A single named meat: Venison and nothing else as the protein, which is what makes this range worth the money if you are managing a food sensitivity.
• Complete for every life stage: Kitten through to senior on the same bag.
• No grain, potato, glycerin or rendered meat: And no plant protein propping up the protein figure on the label.

What Air-Dried Actually Means

• It is meat gently dried rather than cooked at the temperatures kibble sees, and it is not raw. It lives in the cupboard, needs no freezer and no thawing, and you scoop and serve it like a dry food.
• ZIWI put this range at 96% meat, organs, seafood and bone, with a 10% Z-BOOST blend on top. The texture is closer to jerky than to a biscuit, which is also why most animals take to it immediately.
• Ground bone is in the recipe on purpose. That is where the calcium comes from, rather than from a mineral added at the end.

How Much To Feed, And What It Really Costs

• Air-dried carries far more energy per gram than kibble does, so the amount on the chart will look too small. It is not, and a cat fed this by the kibble scoop will put on weight.
• Judge it on cost per day, not cost per kilogram. A 400 g bag goes further than 400 g of kibble. Tell us what you feed now and we will work out the daily comparison.
• ZIWI's chart is in pounds and cups. Give us your cat's weight in kilograms and we will convert the ration to grams before you order.

Changing Over To It

• Move across over six to eight days, mixing a little more of the new food in each day. ZIWI advise the same, and a sudden jump to this much meat upsets most animals.
• Expect smaller, firmer stools once they are settled on it. That is the low carbohydrate load doing what it does, not a problem to fix.

Storing It In This Climate

• Low moisture is what keeps air-dried food stable, and the air here works against that. Press the air out, roll the top down and seal it properly every single time rather than most times.
• Keep it in its own bag rather than tipping it into a storage bin. The bag is a moisture and light barrier; a plastic tub is neither, and it is why decanted food goes stale faster.
• Keep it out of the kitchen heat and out of any sun. If a bag ever smells sour, or feels soft rather than dry, stop using it and bring it back to us.

Good To Know

• Cats are far more stubborn about new food than dogs. Introduce it slowly alongside what they have now, and do not take a first refusal as the final answer.
• A cat eating only dry food drinks more and still runs drier than one on wet food. If this is the whole diet, watch the water bowl.
• Out of stock at the moment. Ask us for the lead time before you plan around it.