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Hi, I have a 3 year old GSP rescue bitch who has a very sensitive stomach. She is currently fed on Natures Diet food but seems to be bored this so I'm looking for a replacement food for her. A couple of my doggie friends have gone down the raw food diet route, in particular the Natural Instinct brand. I just wondered if anyone has any experience of Natural Instinct/ raw diet or any advice. Thanks
 
My old dog has NI raw chicken, plus pasta cooked at home and raw veg and seems quite happy. delivery from NI is fast. You need plenty of freezer space as a box ( 12 kg I think) is the smallest and costs delivery £6 ish. No digestive probs since he changed to this.
 
I switched my dogs onto it a while ago from Natures Menu raw and am very pleased with it - however it IS expensive.

Mine get mainly the prepacked tubs in different flavours and the chicken carcusses, I sometimes add hearts or liver from Natures Menu (Prize Choice) because Natural Instinct don't do these and I often add a tin of mackerel or pilchards.

I order online and it comes the next day, nicely packaged in plastic tubs so easy to handle & defrost. The delivery driver leaves mine in the garage if I'm out and it's been left a few hours before and never had a problem with it starting to defrost.

The only gripe I have is that they only make some of the flavours in the smaller 500g tubs but it's not much of an issue. I have 2 rotties who eat a large tub each a day (1kg) and an EBT who eats a small 500g tub a day so she does miss out on some of the flavours!

Mine are doing really well on it, my anti-raw vet always comments on their condition! It's just a case of weighing up the convenience of it against the cost.
 
We feed all of ours raw so naturally wanted to do the same for new pup. Bought 10 tubs of natural instinct puppy at high cost and she won't touch it :-(. Quite happy with the chicken mince from theyloveit though!
 
I started out with this when swapped my 9 year old rottie and new portie pup onto raw at the start of this year. It is expensive compared to some suppliers, and I did after a couple of months swap my older dog onto DAF meats supplied by Raw2Paw. But I must confess I've gone back to Natural Instinct as the DAF stuff stinks, and is really messy to feed I found. Had a delivery one day that was left less than an hour, and by the time I got to it, it was covered in flies as the box had disintegrated, (cardboard) and the melting frozen meat had leaked juices all over the place. Absolutely vile!! Plus my older dog started having an allergic reaction in his ears to something. Not sure what. So they are both back on NI, despite the cost. Older boy is on borrowed time to an extent as lost a leg to osteosarcoma last year, so for the time we have two we will just suck it up. NI service and delivery have been excellent, I ordered last night at about 7pm, by 8.30am I had an email saying it was awaiting dispatch. I wouldn't be surprised if its not here tomorrow. And in nice plastic tubs really well frozen in polystyrene boxes!
We also developed a real issue with flies/maggots in the wheelie bin from the wrappers on the DAF meats.
I'm sure there are a million different ways to combat the issues I had - but for us, who will ultimately only have one medium sized dog to feed, the NI is worth the extra for the convenience!
 
I used to feed Natural Instinct, my dogs loved it, but I have recently switched to Nutriment Raw as I was find that the NI was not as fresh as it used to be. Either company is a very easy way of feeding raw.
 
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