Orijen, Serengeti, Raw Instinct, and EVO

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My two kitties ate EVO very eagerly, but my older girl gained weight on it, although I was in no way overfeeding.
I got a tiny sample bag of Raw Instinct and kitties also liked it, but the food was extremely crumbly, so I ended up throwing most of it away as my kitties DO NOT eat crumbs of any kind.
Wellness Core although looks great, is $8 for 2lb bag. I cannot afford it, even if my babies would like it.
Orijen is mail order only, I guess its not a US based food, and I would love to get food locally.
Serengeti, is not crumbly and my girls do like, although I am not very fond of alfalfa in its ingredients. I also want to know how many calories per cup it has.
The shape of the food is super tiny balls, and my cats inhale it. With other foods they at least broke down the kibble a little before swallowing it.
Don't know if that is important or not.

My favorite food is California Natural, but with all the grains I am overreacting and going grain-free.
If they snub Serengeti at some point, I'll go back to CA Natural.
 

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Mine all eat Orijen and I can highly recommend it as far as the taste test (they started picking out the Orijen I had mixed with Raw Instinct), the preference of mine was along the lines (overall)

Orijen & EVO
Serengetti
Core
Raw Instinct
 
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Originally Posted by icklemiss21

Mine all eat Orijen and I can highly recommend it as far as the taste test (they started picking out the Orijen I had mixed with Raw Instinct), the preference of mine was along the lines (overall)

Orijen & EVO
Serengetti
Core
Raw Instinct
Thanks for letting me know!
I am hoping they will like the small bags of orijen I ordered. Where do you order yours from?
 
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Originally Posted by Misty8723

Thanks for the link, but wow! a 15 oz trial size bag is $1.33, but shipping is $8.28!
Y, I saw the shipping cost. However, it's worth it if they don't like it. I only lose out on shipping.
 

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I posted the below post some time back about ordering the Orijen food. I thought it was worth bringing up in the interest of getting the best bang for the buck.


Originally Posted by tru

In case anyone is interested in trying the Orijen, it can be found at ONLY4PETS.COM with a price of $1.33 for the 15 oz. trial size bags.

Now you can call it cheating, but.............
I ordered 18 of the trial size at $1.33 each which gives me nearly 17 lbs. for a little less than the price of the 15.4 lb bag with my shipping already figured in.


I thought about ordering a couple of the trial size the other day, but wasn't about to spend $2.66 for two bags and $10.00 for shipping on top of that. So now my shipping was a little over $12, but at least I'm getting a little something for it.


In the meantime I am going to try mixing some Serengeti in with the Max Cat my guys are eating. I figure these two foods are even better than the Felidae they won't eat and the Wysong they are wanting with a slightly smaller price than the Wysong.

Can someone tell me how these former ferals that used to be so grateful for anything I gave them got so darn picky???
 

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Originally Posted by tru

I posted the below post some time back about ordering the Orijen food. I thought it was worth bringing up in the interest of getting the best bang for the buck.
Did you get away with ordering so many small bags? Several people on German forums tried it, and the online suppliers balked.
 

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Originally Posted by jcat

Did you get away with ordering so many small bags? Several people on German forums tried it, and the online suppliers balked.
I half expected them to object against such an order, but they accepted and shipped with no complaints.


I think if they had refused to fill my order than I still would have no Orijen here because I considered the shipping to be prohibitive doing it any other way.
 

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Originally Posted by tru

I half expected them to object against such an order, but they accepted and shipped with no complaints.


I think if they had refused to fill my order than I still would have no Orijen here because I considered the shipping to be prohibitive doing it any other way.
I thought about doing the same thing. I actually went to the site last night and typed the order in. But it sort of defeats the purpose of it being a sample, and I don't like giving my business to a company I feel is ripping me off. My cats are so picky with the dry food, and I've spent so much money in this last month alone on stuff they reject. I really would like to get a legitimate sample of it somewhere. Unfortunately, this place seems like the only one who sells it over the internet, so I guess they won't be trying Orijen for the time being.
 

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Originally Posted by Misty8723

I thought about doing the same thing. I actually went to the site last night and typed the order in. But it sort of defeats the purpose of it being a sample, and I don't like giving my business to a company I feel is ripping me off. My cats are so picky with the dry food, and I've spent so much money in this last month alone
i ordered just the 1 bag, but so far it's preferred over the serengeti.
 

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I have a question about Timberwolf Serengeti. It has been unavailable here for ages, and I noticed today that a German online supplier has posted a note saying that Timberwolf has moved production to a new factory, which is awaiting European Union approval. Until then, their products can't be imported. Has anybody heard or ready anything about a new factory?

And another question. Has anybody tried the ZiwiPeak dry food? I feed the canned, but have only now noticed that the dry is also grain-free. It's horribly expensive here (between €9 and €11 for a 400 g. bag; that would be about $12 - $15), but I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile buying a bag and adding it to the Raw Instinct Jamie is already tiring of. He's not to the point where he's refusing to eat the Raw Instinct, but he's nibbling at it, whereas he was practically inhaling it when he first got it.

Natura stopped exporting its products to the EU when the import regulations were revised, and Old Mother Hubbard never wanted the hassle involved, so EVO and CORE aren't available here.
 

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Okay, I caved and ordered 6 trial bags. I'm not the brightest when it comes to math, but I figured that 6 bags = 90 oz = 5.6 lb. A 5.5 bag on that site sells for $14.99 + $9.69 shipping. 6 trial bags sell for $7.98 + 9.69 shipping. So now I just have to hope the little buggers will eat it
 

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I think my challenge is I can't get many of the foods that you guys have often recommended without taking a 2 hour drive. Thankfully my neighbourhood natural pet food store just started stocking a line of grain free including Orijen and Core. They can't keep the Orijen on the shelves. The herbs in the food sound a little strange, but are at concentrations (1%) typical of what an animal may digest when eating a mouse (whatever the mouse ate).

The cats immediately jumped on Orijen...and have since turned their noses up at the Nature's Variety (couldn't get Raw Instincts here) and the Natural Balance Holistic. Guess I'm going to donate the full bag of Variety and buy some Orijen.
 

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Originally Posted by Renny

I think my challenge is I can't get many of the foods that you guys have often recommended without taking a 2 hour drive. Thankfully my neighbourhood natural pet food store just started stocking a line of grain free including Orijen and Core. They can't keep the Orijen on the shelves. The herbs in the food sound a little strange, but are at concentrations (1%) typical of what an animal may digest when eating a mouse (whatever the mouse ate).

The cats immediately jumped on Orijen...and have since turned their noses up at the Nature's Variety (couldn't get Raw Instincts here) and the Natural Balance Holistic. Guess I'm going to donate the full bag of Variety and buy some Orijen.
I get almost all of my cat food online. The shipping & handling costs here aren't all that bad - typically about €4.90 = $6.68 - but I order in bulk, for friends, neighbors, colleagues and the shelter, so I never have to pay the shipping costs. Most online retailers have free shipping for orders of €20 ($27) or more.

Orijen is a huge hit here in Germany. I first heard of it here at TCS (thanks, Eithne), and got one online "hit". Within a few weeks, just about every major online retailer was carrying it, and cat forums are full of praise.

Jamie loved the Raw Instinct until he tried Orijen. He seemed sceptical at first, but now definitely prefers the latter. Since he demands a lot of variety, I think I'm going to experiment with mixing grain-free dries, or adding a little bit of stuff like Felidae, Solid Gold, or Eagle Pack Holistic once he seems to be tiring of straight grain-free varieties.
 
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