25 July 2024

MARRO - fresh cat food unboxing and first feed [@NLi10]

 My parents feed their dogs something called Butternut which comes in the post and is better than your typical dog food.  We use KatKin for one of our cats but the other really hates it.  This is convenient as we only have one chip feeder.  The company that make Butternut have just started doing the cat equivalent so we jumped in!



The box was dumped at our door by the delivery guys, and lying on it's side - but fortunately I'd planned to be in.  It's a cute house!


So far - so modern.  Every inch of the box has slogans and sayings.  I couldn't find them on Insta - but here it says they are!


And a free toy in the first box - ace!  Luna suitably unimpressed as it's mid morning nap time.


The tray keeps everything safe - and is perfect for cats.  If you tape the corners (Marro should do this) then they love these to sit in.  


A couple of really good ice packs, and all the lovely food.  And suspiciously packed in the same wool layers as KatKin


Lovely little frozen multitrays.  Shallow enough to actually clean so far so haven't had to resort to the "slug trick" as with the Katkin (if you put them next to your compost heap the slugs will come out and clean them for you).


Luna has decided to try the door to the house after all - I've had to use scissors to widen the door as our other cat got wedged in and panicked a bit.  She's fine - just shocked when she tried to pull back.


Here is Luna's standard tuna can with a 1/4 of the fish version added


Here is FloBot's KatKin with the Marro 1/4 placed next to it - all very similar indeed!


I'd not considered that these all might be from the same place until it all arrived, but so far Luna actually seems to like the fish one here so I think the recipe's are different.

And 4 feeds in (2 pouches - 1/4 portions each time) it's all going pretty well.

Luna this morning wasn't fussed about either food, and ate some of the tuna at lunchtime but that's not unusual.

Flo has eaten everything as usual, but it doesn't seem to have upset her delicate digestion which is a win!


Note the free branded spork too - handy for chopping up the frozen lumps.

Overall - as a trial this is great value.  I think they sent us a 50% off referal code so comment if anyone in the UK wants to try it and I'll add it in here.

I'll update once I get through a week of meals and see if either of them actually eat a whole portion to themselves!

















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