I've been feeding the lamb for quite a while and lately it seems like there is less pate and more liquid in the can. Is this shrinkflation?

This can food smells great to me. If I didn’t know this is cat food I would eat it. However, among all the wet foods I have bought, this is THE only one that my cat won’t eat. Maybe a few bites but that’ll be all. I can even use this to train my cat to eat dry food lol. Usually when there is wet food, my cat won’t eat any dry food, but when I leave this one, my cat will know there won’t be any other wet food today and he has to eat dry food. Great product. Will never buy again though. Some updates: I give this can food to my friends’ cats and usually they enjoy instinct lamb recipe can food. However, neither of their cats would eat this. Now I believe there is something wrong with this batch. And my cat enjoys another batch of instinct wet food which makes me more confident that this is a quality control issue

I've had this friend before and I trusted it but it's not for elderly cats because the consistency is a little bit drier and I think they have a hard time digesting it they even wasted.They are 13 years old.The former yard cats they ate it with no problem but they're younger .

Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to give some context about how I started feeding Instinct and where I am now. I started feeding Instinct Grain Fee after my CRF cat spent several days in-patient at the vet after she had so much vomiting that she stopped eating altogether. First a little background, I have three cats. One, Steve, is CRF and gets subcutaneous fluids daily. The second, Zipper, has bowel issues and as a kitten was constantly underweight and dehydrated from terrible diarrhea. The third, Biscuit, is just fine *knock on wood.*When I adopted Zipper, I tried different foods to help her with her digestive issues. Finally I found a grain-free food, , that addressed Zipper's diarrhea - however her stool was still very large and smelly. To stay grain free, I supplemented the Wellness CORE with . All three cats when on this diet and things seemed to be going along fine. Steve (the CRF cat) was most prone to throwing up (every two to three days) but I attributed that to her being sick and being on fluid.Earlier this summer, however, Steve started vomiting every time she ate and eventually stopped eating. She went from 7.5 lbs (down from over 9 lbs before she got sick) to under 6 lbs. I thought her kidney disease had advanced to a point that fluid wasn't helping and that she was a goner. Two overnight stays at the vet didn't get us any closer to a diagnosis - it turns out that all her labs were fine and xrays/sonograms didn't show any obstructions. So we put her on an anti-emetic to stop the vomiting and an appetite stimulant to try to get her to eat. I had been reading the reviews on the Wellness Core and it gave me serious concerns about the product. I started thinking about putting her on a raw diet, but I just don't have the time to do that. So I decided to find the closest thing to raw I could buy and changing proteins in case she had developed an allergy to chicken, I ended up feeding her in rabbit, lamb, venison and beef. It worked! She started eating again. After researching food, I learned that the Before Grain is one of the highest dry foods in carbohydrates, so I switched to the Instinct Raw Boost dry. Steve gets the Instinct wet in the morning when I am in a hurry, the Instinct Raw Boost is out all day (though I don't think Steve eats much of that) and then at night she gets which has a 5+ rating from me.Steve is eating enthusiastically, has regained all the weight she lost (and more) PLUS SHE HAS STOPPED VOMITING!! One time, I thought I would "use up" the Wellness CORE I had on hand and fed it to her. She immediately threw it up so the rest went in the trash. So it has been over three months and the only time she threw up was when I fed her the Wellness CORE. She's been eating the dry Instinct Raw Chicken and the Stella and Chewy Chick Chick Chicken, so it ain't the chicken it's the Wellness CORE.Update on Zipper - since switching to the Instinct Raw Boost dry and the Instinct canned, her stool is compact and doesn't smell anymore. All three of my cats have very small ashy stools now with very low, if any, odor. Whatever Zipper's allergy is - grain, potatoes, gluten??? - this food has addressed that. Zipper and Biscuit have both lost weight putting them back into a good weight range and all three of my cats have better breath and very shiny coats.So if your cat has digestive issues - chronic vomiting of food (rather than hair - if your cat is vomiting a lot of hair, brush the poor thing) or poor digestion with loose, large or smelly stool - you should try this food. It took my cats a couple of feedings to eat the lamb and venison. See if you can get a couple of cans of each flavor at a local pet food store before ordering a case. You and your cats will be glad you did.

I have a cat with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). His case is mild, and the only symptom was unexplained weight loss. After extensive (and expensive!) testing, we got the IBD diagnosis. Cats with this condition are notoriously picky, difficult to get to eat, etc. Vets will often recommend that cats with IBD have only wet food with no grain, and I've been told to keep this cat off chicken, turkey, beef, fish, and pork, as well, in case one of those aggravates his condition.He was eating a prescription duck food for awhile, but started refusing it. I was running out of cat foods to try and had been holding out on getting the Instinct because of the price. (For what it's worth, Amazon has the best price I've been able to find on this product, and I've done a lot of shopping around.)I finally gave in and decided to try the lamb formula because it did not have any other proteins in it (the venison and rabbit contain pork liver and the duck contains turkey liver).Well, my cat (Mr. Kitty) loves the Instinct lamb. This is a high-calorie food -- about 260 calories per 5.5 ounce can. Mr. Kitty gets one and a half cans a day, or about 390 calories. Please be forewarned that that is a LOT more than you would want to give a cat in good health and/or at normal weight, but Mr. Kitty has lost 1.5 pounds and I'm trying to bring his weight back up. (His appetite is increased because of a medication he's on.)I am very happy with this food. All wet cat food smells a little bit, but the Instinct lamb doesn't smell very much compared to some of the others I've tried on my cats in recent months. You see broth and fat when you open the can, but these seem to have attractive flavors for Mr. Kitty. The lamb is a little crumbly although the moisture level is not particularly low compared to what I feed another of my cats (75% for Instinct lamb versus 78% for Merrick Cowboy Cookout).The texture is also good for cats with tooth problems, for what it's worth. This food appears to be all meat, and none of those weird processed composite chunks you see in other wet cat foods. (Mr. Kitty has terrible teeth -- had six of them removed last month -- so this is a concern.) I do mash it up as it tends to retain the shape of the can. If I am taking it out of the refrigerator, I will heat it in the microwave for about 15 seconds, as Mr. Kitty seems to like that temperature better.My other cats are jealous of Mr. Kitty! I do wish this food came in a package that contained more than 12 cans, though.Update, January 11, 2013: Mr. Kitty has gained 0.4 pounds in about two weeks, eating 1.5 cans of this food per day. (He's also on prednisolone.) For an IBD cat, this is amazing, and is exactly what I wanted!