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inparticular.ai
Digestive sensitivity in cats is often driven by food intolerance rather than a true allergy — the most effective fix is usually a limited-ingredient or novel-protein diet that removes the offending ingredient entirely. Freeze-dried raw can be a great direction for a sensitive cat, but the switch from wet matters a lot. Before I point you toward a specific product, it'd help to know: what symptoms is your Abyssinian showing — vomiting, loose stools, something else? How long has this been going on, and what wet food are you currently feeding?
She's been having loose stools on and off for about four months. She's on Applaws tuna and salmon varieties mostly. No vomiting, just the loose stools and she seems a bit gassy too.
inparticular.ai
That pattern — loose stools and gas over several months, no vomiting — is classic food intolerance, and fish-heavy diets are a common culprit. Tuna and salmon are high in histamines and can irritate sensitive guts when fed regularly. Moving to freeze-dried raw is a sensible call, but I'd steer you toward a single-protein, non-fish option so you're actually changing the variable. What's her current weight, and has she ever eaten poultry-based food?
She's about 4kg. She had chicken-based wet food as a kitten but I switched to fish because she seemed to prefer it. She'll eat chicken though.
inparticular.ai
Perfect — chicken is exactly where I'd go. At 4kg with a sensitive gut, you want something with a short ingredient list, no added fish oils, and a protein source she's already tolerated. My recommendation is Stella & Chewy's Freeze-Dried Raw Cat Dinner Morsels in Chick Chick Chicken. It's single-protein, the ingredient list is genuinely minimal — chicken, chicken liver, chicken heart, a few vitamins — and the freeze-dried raw format tends to be much gentler on sensitive digestion than heavily processed wet food. It's also easy to transition slowly by crumbling it over her current wet food and increasing the ratio over two to three weeks, which matters a lot for a cat who's been on the same food for a while.
How do I actually do the transition without upsetting her stomach more?
inparticular.ai
Go slow — slower than you think you need to. Week one, about 25% new food mixed into her current wet food. Week two, 50/50. Week three, 75% new. By week four you can move to fully freeze-dried raw. If loose stools get worse at any point, hold at that ratio for an extra few days before moving on. The rehydration step matters too — add a little warm water to the morsels before serving. It makes it more palatable for cats used to wet food and keeps hydration up, which is especially important when you're removing moisture-rich tinned food from the diet.
That's really helpful. Should I be worried about any nutritional gaps with freeze-dried raw long term?
inparticular.ai
Stella & Chewy's is formulated to AAFCO standards for complete adult nutrition, so the baseline is fine. The one thing worth watching with any Abyssinian — they can be prone to taurine-related issues — is that their diet includes organ meat, which the Chick Chick Chicken does via chicken heart and liver. That said, it's worth running it past your vet at her next check-up just to confirm it suits her specifically at six years old. If her stools firm up and the gas settles within three to four weeks of being fully on the new food, you'll know you've found the right direction.
