Hi Sophie, generally I don’t hear of issues with K9 Natural, but Frontier Pets definitely dominates freeze dried in America.

I too was surprised to see how comparable it is to Ziwi but once again no puppy formula.

If you’ve seen my comments on the Ziwi Peak review you will know I am a huge fan. However even though I was told by someone at Ziwi Peak their foods are fit for dogs over 6 weeks of age their lack of a specific puppy food forced me to reconsider my options.

Also love to hear your thoughts on this higher fat % food for breeds like mine where heart disease is almost inevitable.

I have not no, so far it seems operations are as usual. My two did get sick on K9 freeze dried, but take into account this was the rich lamb and salmon not rehydrated.

So I reckon the issue here was simply it was too rich for them, as the other flavours went down without a hitch. Lamb and salmon are notorious for causing issues honestly and especially if you don’t rehydrate with water.

The cans still appear to look and smell the exact same as I remember.

If your interested in cans, you can get single ones from Habitat. I get the cat ones to try, cause I want the can to only last 1 serving. But the single dog cans are better priced. Could buy a couple of flavours to test.

Ziwi Provenance appears to be better for picky eaters that I’ve personally noted. The other softer air dried foods are particularly good for picky eaters as well, they smell heaps better.

These are Absolute Holistic, Providore, Kiwi Kitchens and a similar to Ziwi one is Urban Ancestral. There’s also one that’s hiding, cause it’s incredibly unknown by most. But it’s called Bugsy’s air dried.

I’ve also taken note based on my own dogs of course so that’s a bit biased. But Zignature was liked, Artemis was loved today, Cherish is a good picky dog kibble, True Colours is another good one, Nutrience may be good, I’ll test it someday.

Your in luck that I’ve been testing so many new foods lately. I was able to give a much more thorough report.

Hi Edanna, have you noticed a difference with the formula? I am looking to get k9 natural and even ziwi peak as toppers for my pup because she’s becoming more picky.

Ziwi also has a further analysis page, listing every amount of everything vitamin/mineral and amino acid related. I wish more foods did that honestly.

They always had issues with the venison, I was told one time there wasn’t enough venison and another time cost was an issue. I remember venison from both them and Ziwi disappearing for a few months even. Than when it came back the price soared.

At the time of them being new to the market, they were the number 1 producers of venison foods. So they could meet demand, but as time went on overseas producers started to use venison. Treats started to use it as well and suddenly there was more using it than there was venison available.

Seems like since than they’ve rectified whatever the issue was as I haven’t heard of any venison related issues lately. I did hear of kangaroo issues though, but that didn’t last long. I guess cause of demand.

Cause truthfully kangaroo is used in a lot of things and there’s many treats from nearly every body part. A lot of the kangaroo stuff is nearly always sold out. So they couldn’t hold off culling them for long.

Oh yeah than Ziwi added yet another venison food from the new Provenance series and that added yet another extra supply of venison.

I wonder if Ziwi will end up having issues again or if it’s simply a case of “it wasn’t selling well enough”, rather than “stock issues” or “price issues”.

I reckon this is a great product for all the reasons slated in this review.
Additionally, I love that the K9 Natural website is so informative regarding nutritional analysis.
For example, if you visit the website and look at freeze dried “Hoki and Beef”, then click “nutritional information” you find a Guaranteed Analysis.

Here you see a table showing (amongst other things) minimum crude protein = 46% and minimum crude fat = 35%.

Below this table is a sentence which says “View full nutritional information here”. Selecting the “here” opens another table which provides nutritional information for all the freeze dried dog food recipes. This information is provided on a “dry matter basis” and on an “as fed” basis, which is as it comes out of the bag.

Here the Hoki and Beef is 50.1% protein and 36.2% Fat from the bag and 51.3% and 37% on a dry basis (difference obviously due to small amount of water remaining after freeze drying)

Other than the fact these numbers are pretty impressive, its great that there remains no ambiguity about how the nutritional information arises or is presented. Kudos to K9 Natural.

Also note that since this review was written, K9 Natural “Venison” appears to be no longer available. Also note that product coming to America no longer contains egg (I’m guessing for quarantine reasons but unsure).

They’ve all ended in tragedy for the brands. I’m hoping this one will be different as feeding an air dried and freeze dried variety, will be impossibly difficult without these brands.

I’m going to go and take pictures of every formula and make an album for them. I will be checking to see if any changes happen over the months and years in the future.

Thank you for your rely.

Usually the way it’s interpreted is 1 cup dry to 1 cup water, I never used the guide cause it wasn’t a main meal, but I’d do 1 cup of dry and than add as much water as you feel is needed to it. Making it too watery will dilute the flavours, unless you have a gobble guts, who will eat till they drop lol.

One good thing I learned and am finally doing actually and doing it a lot, is if I don’t know the answer, I’m asking the company. Either via messenger or email, they’ll know best.