Fruitables Wildly Natural Crunchy Cat Treats - 71g - Tuna

The Fruitables Wildly Natural Crunchy Cat Treats is the stripped-back version of the Fruitables cat treat - the same crunchy base and the same 1.25 calories, with the fruit taken out and the ingredient list cut to thirteen things.

Key Features

• Three flavours: Chicken, Salmon and Tuna
• Thirteen ingredients or fewer per recipe - the shortest list in the Fruitables cat range
• 1.25 calories per treat, 3,350 kcal/kg
• Guaranteed analysis: crude protein 28% min, crude fat 12% min, crude fibre 8% max, moisture 10% max
• Uses chicken broth rather than added poultry fat
• No wheat, corn or soy, and Fruitables' guarantee of no animal by-product meals
• 71g resealable pack

How This Differs From The Fruitables Superfoods Bag

• Same weight, same price, same calories per treat and the same guaranteed analysis. These two ranges are closer than the packaging suggests
• The difference is the fruit. The Superfoods bags add blueberry, pumpkin or cranberry; Wildly Natural leaves them out and runs a shorter list
• Wildly Natural uses chicken broth where the Superfoods recipe uses poultry fat, and skips the brewer's yeast flavour layer in some recipes
• If you are buying on ingredient count, take this one. If you are buying on flavour variety, take the other. There is no nutritional reason to prefer either

Read This If Your Cat Reacts To Chicken

• Every recipe in both Fruitables cat ranges starts with chicken meal, whatever is on the front of the bag
• The tuna and salmon versions are chicken-based treats with tuna meal or salmon meal further down the list, there for flavour rather than as the main protein
• If you are avoiding chicken - and chicken is one of the commonest feline food sensitivities - none of these will work for you, including the fish ones
• If your cat is on a veterinary elimination diet, do not add any treat without asking the vet first

How Many Is Too Many

• Each treat is 1.25 calories, which is about as low as a cat treat gets
• A typical 4 kg indoor cat eats somewhere near 200 calories a day. A tenth of that is 20 calories, or roughly sixteen of these - so there is real room here, which is unusual
• That is a ceiling, not a target. Use them for recall, for pilling, for getting a nervous cat to come to you - not as background grazing
• Count them if more than one person in the house hands them out. That is how cats get fat

What Limited Ingredient Does And Does Not Mean

• A short list makes it easier to spot something your cat reacts to, and easier to avoid it next time. That is the real benefit
• It does not mean hypoallergenic. Chicken is in every one of these, and chicken is among the most common things cats react to
• It is also not a single-protein treat - the fish recipes contain both chicken and fish

Who Makes It

• Fruitables is a Manna Pro Products brand, run out of St Louis, Missouri
• The packs state the treats are produced in the USA with globally sourced ingredients
• Older Fruitables stock and some online listings still credit Vetscience, the company that built the brand before Manna Pro took it on

Good To Know

• All three flavours are currently in stock
• Fruitables label these for intermittent or supplemental feeding only. They are a treat, not a meal, and are not balanced to feed on their own
• Keep treats to about a tenth of what your pet eats in a day, and take that tenth off the dinner rather than adding it on top
• Introduce any new treat gradually. A sudden change, or too many at once, upsets a stomach more often than the treat itself does
• Reseal the pack and keep it somewhere cool and dry. Treats left open in UAE humidity go soft and stale quickly
• Make sure fresh water is available at all times
• Fruitables' own promise line on every pack is free of wheat, corn, soy and artificial flavours or colours
• For cats and kittens eating solid food comfortably. Crunchy pieces suit a cat with healthy teeth; a cat with dental disease or missing teeth will do better on something soft