Thoughts on Instinct by Natures Variety

d1mitrov · Sep 21, 2017

So ive been feeding my girl Fromm lamb and lentil for the last 1.5 months. Shes been mostly fine, some tear stains, and an occasional rare stool, which could also be attributed to something else. Since I shop mainly on chewy and they no longer carry Fromm, and are giving me 25$ off Instinct by Natures Variety, i figured id get your guys' opinion and give it a try. Im looking at the Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Recipe with Real Turkey. Whats the overall consensus on this brand?

Thanks for any help and info in advance!!!

Cbrugs · Sep 22, 2017

Nature's Variety is a good brand. Just remember to do a slow transition between foods to help avoid an upset belly.

Frenchie Grrrl · Sep 22, 2017

d1mitrov said:
So ive been feeding my girl Fromm lamb and lentil for the last 1.5 months. Shes been mostly fine, some tear stains, and an occasional rare stool, which could also be attributed to something else. Since I shop mainly on chewy and they no longer carry Fromm, and are giving me 25$ off Instinct by Natures Variety, i figured id get your guys' opinion and give it a try. Im looking at the Limited Ingredient Diet Grain-Free Recipe with Real Turkey. Whats the overall consensus on this brand?

Thanks for any help and info in advance!!!

I'm pretty certain that chewy will give you up to $25 off (x3) on any "new" food that you will try (limited time only). I just used my last discount and bought some The Honest Kitchen. Gus gets about 3 parts THK dehydrated raw to about 1 part dry kibble.

To answer your question, I recently switched him off of Fromm Heartland Gold (it is a good food, but gave him bad gas), to Nature's Variety Limited Ingredient Salmon Recipe, and he is doing well.

I'm going to try again to discontinue the kibble when we get low on this bag, as long as his stools remain firm, but all is well for now.

d1mitrov · Sep 22, 2017

sweet thx guys! order on the way!

2bullymama · Sep 22, 2017

as others suggested... NVI is a very good food... slow transition.

Also, if you did want to stay with Fromm.. try petflow dot com

Alice Kable · Sep 30, 2017

Both of our boys get NVI Ltd. Ingred. Turkey and do well on it!

ptgc · Oct 24, 2017

Petey's been on the NVI Limited Ingredient Lamb and Salmon kibble and dehydrated raw Lamb topper...he did very well on the new food for about 6-7 months, but we've started to notice he would on occasion throw up his food. In the beginning he loved the new food and would just gobble it down, now he doesn't eat right away and will only eat when he's really hungry...we took him to the Vet because he was throwing up more than normal and the Vet put him on cerenia and prilosec, due to the type of breed tends to regurgitate up their food. Well that made him extremely ill and lethargic, we stopped all the medications and he was back to normal, very scary stuff... CBrugs: I read that you feed Jax Honest Kitchen, I'm thinking of switching Petey and trying it out, maybe it will be more palatable for him and keep the food in his tummy. We keep him away from the starchy potatoes, sweet potatoes and grains, can you tell me which Honest Kitchen type of food do you use for Jax and how long he's been on Honest Kitchen? I did some reading on the types of food that Honest Kitchen offers and the two under the "minimalist foods" that I'm thinking of trying him on were the Fish and Coconut and Turkey and Parsnip. Thanks for your input!

Frenchie Grrrl · Oct 24, 2017

Gus is currently on THK turkey limited ingredient and loves it. He also loves the limited ingredient fish, but I did not. Smells horrible. Especially, when you have a car sick pup. Lol

I'd give it a try. We love THK.

2bullymama · Oct 24, 2017

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Cbrugs · Oct 24, 2017

ptgc said:
Petey's been on the NVI Limited Ingredient Lamb and Salmon kibble and dehydrated raw Lamb topper...he did very well on the new food for about 6-7 months, but we've started to notice he would on occasion throw up his food. In the beginning he loved the new food and would just gobble it down, now he doesn't eat right away and will only eat when he's really hungry...we took him to the Vet because he was throwing up more than normal and the Vet put him on cerenia and prilosec, due to the type of breed tends to regurgitate up their food. Well that made him extremely ill and lethargic, we stopped all the medications and he was back to normal, very scary stuff... CBrugs: I read that you feed Jax Honest Kitchen, I'm thinking of switching Petey and trying it out, maybe it will be more palatable for him and keep the food in his tummy. We keep him away from the starchy potatoes, sweet potatoes and grains, can you tell me which Honest Kitchen type of food do you use for Jax and how long he's been on Honest Kitchen? I did some reading on the types of food that Honest Kitchen offers and the two under the "minimalist foods" that I'm thinking of trying him on were the Fish and Coconut and Turkey and Parsnip. Thanks for your input!

Jax gets frozen raw patties. Louie my 8 month old English bulldog gets THK. Right now he’s eating Thrive. He’s had one other and I can’t remember which one but he seems to be doing fine on it.

I’d definitely give it a try!

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