so I gave some Viva raw to my mom's four cats and I've been giving them the Viva raw for the past
few nights and mornings and they absolutely devoured it when I was making the food they
were licking the package licking The Cutting Board licking the bowl and then they licked their plates
clean as well I talked to one of the owners shout out to Zach thank you so much for sending us the
free variety pack so that we could test and review I'm excited to work with them as an affiliate and
stick with me until the end and I'll tell you how you can get a discount on your first order so the
variety pack comes with five different proteins there's duck and turkey and chicken beef and
there's also rabbit the rabbit is in the freezer still so the bird recipes are pretty similar so
there's meat with bone heart gizzard and liver that's the typical that you'll see with bird
recipes there's usually only the secreting organ liver so with beef there's beef heart liver kidney
and Bones so with beef you get the additional secreting organ which is fantastic because
more variety the better for rabbit it's rabbit with ground bone lung liver and kidney so you do
get the extra secreting organ there the kidney you also get the extra muscular organ which is lung
but there's no heart so when I spoke with one of the owners of Viva Raw they use the USDA kitchens
and all of their ingredients are human grades so I'm not surprised that my mom's four cats really
liked the food but it's interesting they started as more whole prey and they wanted to use things
like other secreting organs like brains and eyes and all of that because cats wouldn't eat that in
the wild and those are super rich in nutrients but since those aren't edible human edible and
it's a USDA human ingredient kitchen they weren't able to use those parts so that's why they moved
to these pure recipes that have just the typical muscle Meats the bones and the liver and kidney
those are the most common secreting organs that you'll see so as for the guaranteed analysis
for these beef is actually pretty close to Ideal so it's 16 protein and seven percent fat so you
want to have at least about half typically beef is fattier sometimes you'll see the same amount
of fat when it comes to protein but this one is actually very close to it and Duck Right Here is
13 protein 10 fat so again you know duck is very generally it's it's always going to be fattier
so but I'm surprised usually the fat is higher than the protein but you know it is fattier but
since the beef is leaner and Rabbit's also leaner that's a good variety right there and for turkey
it's 15 protein and six percent fat so again you see it's you know a little a little around
half it's not exactly half but that's typically what you want to see surprisingly chicken is 13
protein and three percent fat so that's actually surprising usually chicken is about half but that
variety is good because that'll help balance it out if you're feeding all of those proteins
that'll help balance out the protein and the fat so that you're not feeding too much of one and
you know you have a good a nice high protein and moderate fat diet so Viva Raw Pure isn't complete
on its own you would have to add supplements and viva raw actually had their their mixes tested
to see which nutrients they provide you know based on the ingredients that they use where they Source
it because that all affects the nutrition that comes into the final product so they recommend
using alnutrin for meat and Bone I used to use alnutrin for meat and bone for Jericho for years
I understand that we don't want to use synthetic supplements but this is still a big step up from
commercially available food and Viva raw is working on complete cat food just stay tuned
I'll let you know as soon as it's available and maybe I can help and maybe work with them to find
a whole food supplement with formulation software but these are human grade quality ingredients and
they're the absolute required ingredients and nothing else so there's no preservatives like
BHT BHA Etc that we want to avoid and there's no fillers so there's egg yolk powder taurine
and then some electrolytes vitamin E iron copper manganese iodine vitamin d and vitamin B these are
the typical missing nutrients from the 80 10 10 ratios if you're not feeding a lot of variety or
any type of supplements so it really just contains the the necessary ones and and there's no fillers
this one comes with individual packets so each one of these packets you would mix with one pound of
meat bones and organs Viva comes in two pound packs so you would use two of these since it's
two pound packs when you're mixing the food you might want to adjust the amount of water that
you use I've found that the bird recipes are a bit more watery this is also the ground one it
might be different if you get the chunked one the rabbit one will always be fine ground but
you can choose between ground and chunked when it comes to the birds and the beef but I would
say I used a quarter of a cup of water for all of them that I made and the bird ones especially
the chicken one definitely does come out more watery and soupy that's to be expected that's
my experience with pretty much all types of raw chicken products you know for cat food but you'll
have to adjust based on what your cat likes so you would mix the water and the supplements first and
then add the meat to it thoroughly mix it up I put it into freezer bags there's four cats so
that's pretty easy to portion so you can just split up the one pound and one pound then keep
one in the refrigerator keep one in the freezer and then once you need the one in the freezer
put it in the refrigerator to thaw I would say at least 24 hours if you have a big pack like
these the two pound pack my mom put it to fall on Saturday and then I was making the food on Monday
so definitely you know you want to adjust how you need to thaw you know your refrigerator best
so definitely thought you know a little a little more than they say maybe just the first time and
then you can adjust but you definitely want to have it thawed in the refrigerator only don't
thought on the counter because then you're just going to invite the growth of bacteria and again
I'll let you know as soon as I know when when Viva raw has complete cat food but until then
check the code in the description so you can save on your first order thank you again viva raw for
sending us the food the cats really loved it and I'm excited to work with you thanks for watching