Carnilove Cat Pouch Duck with Catnip 85g

Carnilove Cat Pouch – Duck with Catnip, 85g

An 85g pouch of meat fillets with 1% dried catnip worked through it. The catnip is the interesting part: it is there to get a reluctant cat's head into the bowl, and for cats that respond to nepetalactone it does that better than any amount of flavouring.

Read the composition before you buy it as a duck food, though. Carnilove build all these pouches on turkey: 66% turkey, 14% duck and 10% turkey liver inside the 90% fillet content. It is a duck-flavoured turkey pouch rather than a duck one.

Performance & Benefits

• 90% meat and organs in fillets, with only water, calcium carbonate and small functional inclusions besides.
• 1% dried catnip, which many cats find hard to ignore.
• 80.0% moisture — useful for cats that drink too little.
• Taurine added at 1,400 mg/kg.
• Grain-free, with no soy, sugar, artificial colours or preservatives.
• 85g single-serve pouch, so nothing is left standing in a bowl.

Suitable For

• Cats that need persuading to eat.
• Cats on dry food that would benefit from more water in the diet.
• Topping a dry meal rather than replacing it, if you prefer.
• Not suitable for a cat avoiding turkey or poultry: turkey and turkey liver are 76% of the fillet content. Carnilove ACTIVE Beef & Venison for Sterilised Cats is the poultry-free option we stock.

Feeding

• Carnilove make this recipe in two textures with slightly different figures: a jelly pouch for sterilised cats and a gravy pouch for adult cats. This listing does not state which, so both are given below.
• Jelly, for sterilised cats: a 3kg cat needs 3.5 pouches a day, a 4–6kg cat 4–4.5, a 6–8kg cat 4.5–5.
• Gravy, for adult cats: a 3kg cat needs 3 pouches a day, a 4–6kg cat 3.5–4, a 6–8kg cat 4–5.
• Reduce the amount accordingly if you are also feeding dry food.
• Serve at room temperature rather than straight from the fridge.
• An opened pouch keeps in the fridge for up to three days, or can be frozen.
• Feed alongside fresh water; wet food supplies moisture but does not replace a water bowl.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 90% meat and organs in fillets (66% turkey, 14% duck, 10% turkey liver), 4.5% water, 1.5% calcium carbonate, 1% dried catnip, 1% linseed oil, 1% lignocellulose, 1% pea flour.
• Analytical constituents, jelly: crude protein 9.5%, crude fat 4.0%, crude fibre 0.7%, crude ash 2.5%, moisture 80.0%, calcium 0.2%, phosphorus 0.2%, sodium 0.3%, omega-3 0.2%, omega-6 1.5%. Metabolisable energy 914 kcal/kg.
• Analytical constituents, gravy: crude protein 9.5%, crude fat 5.8%, crude fibre 0.7%, crude ash 2.5%, moisture 80.0%. Metabolisable energy 925 kcal/kg.
• Nutritional additives per kg: vitamin D3 440 IU, vitamin E 230 mg, biotin 0.7 mg, taurine 1,400 mg, zinc 35 mg, iron 14.0 mg, manganese 4.2 mg, copper 3.4 mg, potassium iodide 0.85 mg.
• Carnilove name these pouches after the 14% ingredient, not the main one. Turkey and turkey liver together make up 76% of the fillet content, so a pouch of this kind cannot serve as a single-protein or turkey-free food.