Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet Grain Free Recipe with Real Rabbit Natural Dry Cat Food by Nature's Variety, 10 lb. Bag

I switched to this food because it doesn’t have fish oil or chicken. I’m not certain these are the issue, but this food is working for now.FOOD ALLERGIES?My sweet old rescue Himalayan cat started up with allergies soon after his yearly shots last January. Coincidence? The vet suggested many things, but no medicine helped our poor dude. Nor did any of the OTC foods I tried. It was getting so sad. He was scratching all his hair off.POSSIBLE DOWNSIDEI’ll be real with you: the smells that come out the litter box are horrifying at best. I thought it would just take some adjusting, but the only one trying to adjust is my nose. Wow! I tried to switch over to the prescription rabbit food because of this, but he started itching again. Back to the stinky black doodie. 😕 (This is why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars.)CAT APPROVEDBeezy was sort of a picky eater, not the type to be interested in wet food either. But he can’t get enough of his rabbit food! Sometimes I worry about the lack of fish oil in his diet, as this used coconut oil, but other than the horror-movie-grade poops, I see no issue.👌

I'll start off by saying that my two star has nothing to do with the product itself.This cat food was a life saver when I was trying to find the right food to deal with my cat's food allergies. She suffered from food allergy related symptoms pretty severely from vomiting all the time, runny stool, and the worst of it all, her scratching. She would scratch her face and ears to the point of breaking skin and bleeding badly. Her ears were always swollen. She would also chew on her legs and paws constantly, leaving bald, red, oozy patches of skin.I rushed her to VCA hospital after she totally messed up her face in a fit of scratching one night. After paying them over $300 to tell me her physical exam and blood work came back fine, and that it might be food allergies, I went on the hunt to find a cat food that her body would agree with. After much searching and much failing, I was satisfied that this food might be the trick. Rabbit seemed like such an obscure ingredient, that I was sure she's never had it before in any of her other foods she's eaten. And the nice thing about this food was it had no traces of any other protein in it, not even salmon oil. Sure enough, slowly but surely, the scratching subsided. It took a while for her symptoms to fully disappear, but they sure enough did. Her fur grew back, and it stays nice and shiny. Her ears went back to normal. And her stool was of normal consistency (although a little more smelly and darker). I could finally breathe easy again. Or so I thought.Initially I was paying $37.99 for a ten pound bag of this food. I already found that to be pretty steep, but it was definitely worth the price seeing that my kitty was doing a lot better. But holy crap, what happened to the price??? I had this on my subscribe & save so I didn't even notice the hike in price until I just so happened to check my order recently. I almost passed out when I had seen it. $60??? Sixty? Dollars??? I just can't believe it. And it really sucks because I don't really have any alternatives to choose from. I just find it ridiculous that I'm now paying close to double the amount I was paying before, but for the same ten pounds I have been getting since I started buying this food. You would think they added gold to the ingredients for Christ's sake. If it weren't for the fact that I needed this cat food, I would definitely stop purchasing it. Super disappointing.

This has been the only food my IBD cat can eat along with their moist rabbit food. My cat is also on daily DEXAMETHASONE (liquid form because she won’t take pills). With this combo, she has gone from being underweight, daily vomiting, severe running stools (all over the house) and is back to a happy seemingly healthy cat which I am so happy about!

She can do duck, salmon, beef, and venison but still had some runny poo and upset belly. While this does cause some quite fragrant silent but deadly kitty farts, its worth it to have a litter box full of happy poo. Only a Cat Mom/Dad would understand this. But trust me when I say my baby is getting bunny from now on. Even if it does cost me another $25 a month to feed both cats the fancy kibble. No complaints on the food either. I had to feed them some tuna kibble we had left over until the new bag came and you'd think I had starved them. Tuna! Who wants tuna when you can have bunny for breakfast lunch and dinner!

One of my cats has IBD and cannot have certain ingredients. She does well, without any issues on different brand duck limited ingredient formula, but due to supply issues or whatever is going on with cat food shortages, we had to switch foods. Oddly, she did okay (had a couple flares) on Instinct Rabbit Raw Boostn but again, shortage happened, so we bought this.I tried her on this food (slow mix until 100%, like you're supposed to when introducing new foods), and within 2 days with only 1/4 of the new food mixed in, she was back to having massive GI issues (diarrhea, vomiting). In addition, my other cat, who has absolutely ZERO GI issues, started vomiting.Immediately took both off this food and switched back to their regular, different brand that is duck limited ingredient, and within 24 hours, vomiting and diarrhea ceased, in both cats.I just noticed that the Instinct Rabbit Limited Ingredient has both Canola and Coconut oils, while the Instinct Raw Boost Rabbit uses salmon oil. The Limited Ingredient duck brand I use also uses only salmon and other fish oils. I do not think that any oil NOT derived from animal sources belongs in a cat food.In addition, both the Instinct Limited Rabbit and Instinct Raw Boost rabbit contains montmorillonite clay, known to cause constipation and other GI upsets in some cats.Finally, this food is EXPENSIVE. I spend $30 bucks for a 15lb bag of my cats' usual other brand Limited Ingredient Duck. I WASTED $60 on this 10lb bag, because it adversely affected my cats.