Benefits of Feeding Fegnion
Healthy skin and coat
Healthy gums and teeth
Greater endurance and vitality
Naturally reduced
litter box odor and waste
Healthy urinary tract
due to natural hydration
Happy and
healthy cat
About Our Product
Developed, tested, and handcrafted in Fegnion’s own NY kitchen.
Complete and Balanced Raw Cat Food
The clinical team at Fegnion has created an evidence-based Complete and Balanced, Feline Appropriate raw cat food that has been analytically tested by accredited laboratory to substantiate it’s nutritional adequacy in order to meet and exceed Association of American Feed Control Officials (AFFCO) nutritional guidelines for all feline life stages* and maintenance^.
*THE ULTIMATE RAW NUTRITION™
^RAWCEUTICALS™
Digestibility More Than 97%*
At Fegnion, we take pride in offering the highest quality raw cat food in the industry, ensuring that our products have the highest possible digestibility.
We have designed our Feline Prey Appropriate raw cat food with your true hyper-carnivore in mind that is high in animal-based proteins and fat, and zero carbs to place the least amount of stress on your cat’s GI tract system and facilitate the most nutrient absorption and utilization.
When feeding a nutrient-dense and highly digestible feline-appropriate raw cat food product like Fegnion your cat will be nutritionally saturated and will consume less food, which will result in smaller, harder, virtually odorless, and less frequent poops. Your cat will have a healthier weight, a better temperament, and will be a healthier and happier cat.
*Total Dry Matter Digestibility
Nutrient-Rich Raw Bones & Marrow
Your cat needs bones to survive. It is an essential part of his ancestral feline diet needed for his existence. Feeding your cat raw ground bones is safe as long as they are fed raw.
Whole raw ground bones are an excellent source of minerals and nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus, collagen, glucosamine, and chondroitin.
Including raw bones, marrow and cartilage is the best and only way you should feed your strict carnivore a Feline Prey Appropriate diet.
You can never truly replicate what nature has created by omitting bones.
Accountable Sourcing
For us accountable sourcing is extremely important to ensure that the choices we make about what we purchase and how our working relationship with our suppliers will benefit the health of our cat clients, the livelihoods of our vendors, and also the health of the environment.
We source our raw materials from small businesses to not only support local communities but also to protect the planet.
We can trace every single ingredient in our recipes back to the original source. We take pride in what we do and who we do business with. We choose to work with suppliers that share our same goal.
Evidence Based
Fegnion’s Feline Prey Appropriate raw cat food recipes were formulated by a team of clinical pharmacists and veterinarians. We, as health care professionals, have brought to this creation an essential health care provider thought process, based on evidence-based decisions. We have extensively researched and evaluated clinical data and the physiology and biochemistry, in relation to domestic and wild cats.
We always keep in mind, while creating the best Feline Appropriate raw food for your feline that your cat, like the big cats, is a strict carnivore. It is your cat’s anatomic, physiologic, metabolic, and behavioral adaptations that truly makes him an obligate predator, craving a strictly carnivorous diet essential for his survival. Through an evidence-based approach, every effort is taken to simulate a cat’s natural Ancestral Prey Model, by creating a meal that consists of a perfect balance of macronutrients-protein and fat-the same found in the prey your cat would hunt in the wild.
Artificial Color, Flavor and Preservative Free
Our products are flash frozen immediately after production to prevent the product from spoiling and to preserve its natural color, flavor, and most importantly its nutritional content. Freezing is our all natural preservative.
Fish and Fish Oil Free
After considering all facts, risks of feeding fish products outweigh the benefits.
Reasons we avoid it in our products:
Not true Ancestral Prey diet:
Even though a majority of cats find fish irresistible, it is still not part of their natural ancestral prey diet. Everything about your cats says they are terrestrial predators that didn’t evolve eating fish.
Rancidity:
Fish and fish oils are mainly used in pet food as a source of cheap protein and Omega-3 fatty acids.
Unfortunately, we all know that its primary goal is as a palatant or palatability enhancer (flavor enhancer), enticing your cat to consume food or treats which consist of poor quality ingredients, a food he would not naturally eat, or by masking unfavorable flavors and aromas, or both.
Fish oils are quite perishable, unstable, and highly susceptible to oxidation usually from exposure to oxygen, light, heat, and natural degradation over time. This oxidation creates unhealthy free radicals that can cause more harm than good. Sourcing a unoxidized quality product is unrealistic. All fish oils will oxidize to a certain degree. Rancid fish products are not only useless but ultimately very dangerous for your pet to consume.
Environmental Contaminants:
The majority of fish products contain environmental contaminants such as toxic chemicals and metals.
Allergy:
It is important to note that fish is considered one of the top three food allergens in cats.
There are an increasing number of cats developing adverse allergic reactions, such as intolerance to fish and fish allergy.
Ecosystem Destruction:
Overfishing has a devastating impact on the ecosystem. This chain reaction not only affects the balance of life in the oceans but also the livelihood of people who depend on fish for their daily living. To destroy the food chain is to destroy life. Therefore, we are not contributing in any way to the destruction of our ecosystem.
Single Source Meat Products
Your cat is a strict carnivore and his existence depends on a diet solely based on animal tissues. In the wild, he would be hunting and killing a variety of small prey such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates, just as his ancestors did for thousands of years.
That’s why we at team Fegnion have created high protein diets from different animal sources, which are free of any grains, fruits or vegetables and are closest to what your little predator craves and was born to eat in the wild.
We believe feeding a variety of Feline Appropriate Raw nutrition with rotation between single species animal proteins is the key to a healthy and happy cat.
Grain, Fruit, and Vegetable Free
Due to the lack of and inefficiency of particular enzymes, cats are unable to fully process or digest ingredients such as grain, fruits or vegetables.
For example, in the wild, feral cats, as well as the big cats, would avoid eating the stomach of their prey, first eating the head then their organs. Ingestion of carbohydrates would be the accidental ingestion of surrounding grass or stomach contents while eating their prey.
Adding seeds, berries, and vegetables in an attempt to replicate the contents of a prey’s stomach is unacceptable. In the wild, these are found in trace amounts. We do not add indigestible ingredients as fillers to cut costs and by no means to make it appealing to pet parents.
HPP and Bacteriophage Free
HPP (High-Pressure Pasteurization) and Bacteriophages are methods that are mostly used in pet food industry to “kill” pathogens. Both processes decrease the levels of pathogens and do not fully eliminate them.
At Fegnion, we focus on maintaining our products in their original form-RAW. We source high-quality raw materials from reputable suppliers and adhere to strict aseptic techniques to ensure the safety of our raw cat food. As pharmacists, we take safety seriously and have developed methods that do not involve High Pressure Processing (HPP) or Bacteriophages.
Our safety measures have been extensively researched and tested for effectiveness. We wash our raw materials with a proprietary organic acid blend we created and compound ourselves, which is both antibacterial and antiviral. We are confident in the safety of our products and our methods.
We avoid HPP and Bacteriophages for several reasons:
HPP destroys pathogenic bacteria along with beneficial bacteria. It also denatures the protein and depletes the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids.
Fats in food are quite perishable, unstable, and highly susceptible to oxidation, usually from exposure to oxygen, light, heat, and natural degradation over time. When specific processing treatments are utilized, such as HPP, fats can become rancid due to lipid oxidation making them possibly toxic to your cat. In addition, this oxidation creates unhealthy free radicals that can cause more harm than good.
The potential migration of chemical compounds into the food from plastic packaging may cause endocrine disruption in your cat that may lead to the development of health disorders such as diabetes, thyroid and reproductive disorders, heart and kidney disease, and certain types of cancer.
HPP subjected raw foods are no longer truly raw.
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Bacteriophages are genetically modified viruses that target specific pathogenic bacteria by infecting them and killing them.
Bacteriophages could induce inflammation to the gut by disrupting the gut barrier that can lead to immune alteration. They may slip out of the gut and get into the bloodstream by making their way to other parts of the body, with unknown consequences.
The long term impact of ingesting food treated with bacteriophages are unknown with as yet undiscovered consequences.
