Ziwi Peak Steam & Dried Cat Food – Wild South Pacific Fish - High Protein, Sk...

I'm very satisfied with the results from switching from Hills Adult Indoor forumla, to Rachel Ray's Nutrish, to now this. My 10 year old girl is an extremely picky eater. I've tried switching her to wet food and raw food to no avail. She is a kibble junkie. She loves seafood flavors: salmon and tuna are favorites. I was so grateful to find that she took to this kibble within a few days of me introducing it. We tried the fish version and that's all we've done so far. Some days she would even prefer to finish all of this kind of kibble, as opposed to her previous Rachel Ray brand, yay! To me, it's worth the overpowering scent, if it means my cat will like something that's healthier for her. I feed my dog a homemade raw diet that I formulate at home with spreadsheets and calculate exact ratios. I wish I could do the same but it was just getting so exhausting trying to convince my cat to eat something healthy for her. So I caved to the high price point and bought a premium brand kibble. She used to shed like crazy super bad. It wasn't always her whole life but ever since she turned like 9 it's just skyrocketed. Now after 2 solid months using this, her shedding has gone way down. I don't get a handful of loose fur every time I try to pet her, and it's stopped being in all my food. Basically, it's gone back to a normal level that she had in her youth, which I thank the inclusion of the omega threes and fish in the recipe for that. She's also struggled with crusty build up in the corner of her eyes, and to me, it seems like that has reduced since the switch to this brand. My spouse hates the smell and I think it smells like fish food, but that's kind of appealing to me rather than absolutely revolting. But it is a very overpowering scent, every time you open the bag. My spouse also claims that it makes her #2 smell horrible, but I don't think they smell any worse than they did before. And if anything, that's just more motivating for me to keep her box regularly cleaned lol. But it is quite the unbearable stink bomb if you're nearby when she drops it. 🤢 Because she is older and very inactive, but has very good self regulation regarding food and hunger cues, she's not overweight. She's at a healthy 7.5 lbs, and she eats probably around 1/3 cup per day of this kibble, so the 1.9 lb bag workd out for us to buy once a month, so our cost is usually $35/mo (lately been able to find it for $28, yay). She loves it and I love it. And it's worth the price to me to know it's so much better for her health. And it's ingredients I pretty much all trust. The only thing I don't really like to see in the formula is the inclusion of legumes, so I hope it doesnt heavily rely on those to contribute to the 40% protein since cats are obligate carnivores. But because the formula includes plenty of taurine, I'm not too worried about it actively creating harm, her body just might not be absorbing as much protein out of it as the label suggests. While I would love to feed her raw in a perfect world, I'm happy with this for now. (2nd image showing her lack of crusty eyes)

My cats like it. I mix this with other dry food and my cats just like it. I tried to switch to different flavors but ZIWI brand since I feel the quality is important. ZIWI has the best quality

My super picky cat eats this

My cat loves this, good ingredients, calories on a higher side but I have no issue with it.

First thoughts, this is VERY expensive food, but if it is better for our cats we should give it a go. Tried this food out for 6 months and I could honestly tell difference in their coat - it was softer and very shiny.. but the food really does have a horrible odor. I told my husband it was because this was "REAL" food... but he did not like that at all ... Then after that time one of our cats started vomiting - could not keep it down for some reason. I don't understand why since he was eating for awhile but then I noticed the other cats too didn't want to eat it .. not sure if the food was bad but we had to take our cat to the vet to get care. They didn't say anything was "wrong" with the food but it could be too rich for him to digest or allergies to the food irritating the stomach lining. .. suggested to put him on EN Purina Pro (GI food - plain diet). So we did that for about a week now and he seems better. I am not going to buy it again unfortunately, what a shame as I really wanted to like the food for them.

The Ziwi Peak steam and dried South Pacific Fish recipe is an amazing cat food. The label mentions that it is made from 87% animal ingredients. The color is dark and it smells strongly of fish. My cats go crazy for these small little bites of cat food. Compared to other brands, it’s definitely crunchier, and the size is perfect. It’s so healthy and looks better than most cat food on the market today. It’s a great value for the price and easy to serve to your cat, as a meal or as a treat. It’s definitely our new go-to dried cat food.

Excellent

This is a raw food, steamed product that contains chicken, chicken fat, and egg white (Pacific Fish Variety). While recently transitioning one of my cats, he got very sick rapidly: leathery,105.1 F fever, change in appetite, dehydration, muscle twitching, sneezing, difficulty breathing. We rushed him to the vet for medication and fluids and thankfully he is young/healthy and on the mend now. Please be aware that these are symptoms of H5N1 or bird flu. We didn't test for this because it's difficult, few labs perform it. Bird flu is often fatal in cats, so if he had it the viral load would have been small. Either way he is my only cat to eat this and my only cat to get sick. Admittedly this seems like a great product for the ingredients but please be cautious.

When it comes to food for your pet, please never try to save as much as you can. With that being said, I love to splurge on extremely high quality food for my princess cat so she can have all the nutrients she needs in order to be healthy. This brand is a little pricey but the ingredients are amazing, I'd rather spend more on cat food and get my cat the best out there, rather then saving up and give her cheap stuff just to make trips to the vet in the future. My cat likes it a lot!

My cat loves it.

My cat has a bowel disorder disease and this is the only cat food that helped her symptoms. She loves it and doesn't vomit like before. Highly recommended

Normal and expensive

Transitioning two male kittens to this food and they love it. They love equally 50:50 ziwi peaks and kitten open farm - eventually they will be 100%. I know it’s healthy for them and I don’t mind paying for good food. Less vet bills in the long run. This food is dryer than others - make sure to give plenty of wet food, and water. Try this - they will like it.