Freeze dried raw foods

[alek0]

Anyone has experience with freeze dried raw diets (Nature's variety and Stella&Chewys)?

[janielaurel]

I don't know of anyone who's used either. I haven't look at Stellas yet, but Nature's Variety has all the "right stuff" in its ingredients list. Not having any pets anymore, I can't buy it and try it, but I think it would probably be great, as long as it doesn't require any cooking of any sort to reconstitute it. My bet is, it would be a great way to add variety to a raw diet, although I still think preparing it fresh and then freezing it might be better. Freeze drying does remove all the water from the food, and I can't help but think that if you remove the moisture you're also removing the nutrients with it (or at least some of them).

Still, if you feed a raw diet and you take your pet with you on trips, this would be a really great solution to a problem of how to prepare meals for your babies when you're traveling.

Just one woman's opinion. Anybody else out there have any experience with these products?

[Bonkers]

   I have used the Nature's Variety freeze dried food for my cat. But I had to stop feeding him this food because of his sensitivity to fish products. I would think that a freeze dried food would be a great option for raw feeders who may like to leave their cat or dogs food set out for longer periods of time. No worry of spoilage.

[sherrylynne]

I don't use them with my cats, but I do use Wysong's Archetypal 1 with my ferrets. If I can't be there to feed them their raw portion, like at the vet's fot the day, or even if they've pigged down their entire portion of raw, then i give the Wysong's freeze dried in their cage. They love it!

[GreyGhost]

I use Natures Variety freeze dried as a treat and I also crumble one over Misty's N.V raw. She loves it. A friend of mine uses it for her cats all the time.