Big Dog ↔ Feline Natural

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Big Dog Pet Foods

Big Dog

Independent · 5 listed

Natural Pet Food Group

Feline Natural

Private equity · 19 listed

Formats represented

Big
raw frozen
Feline
cannedfreeze-driedpouch

Moisture · as fed

Big Dog

raw frozen
72

Feline Natural

canned
81–83
freeze-dried
8
pouch
80–81
0%20%40%60%80%

Shown as fed: the water actually in the food. The dry-matter rows below strip it out so protein and fat can be compared across formats.

Protein · dry matter

Big Dog

raw frozen
50

Feline Natural

canned
4255
freeze-dried
4652
pouch
4755
30%40%50%60%

Fat · dry matter

Big Dog

raw frozen
36

Feline Natural

canned
2844
freeze-dried
2842
pouch
2539
20%30%40%50%

Formats and figures reflect the products listed on KibbleGuide, not necessarily each brand’s full range.

Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning

Big Dog and Feline Natural offer two different approaches to the Australian cat food market. Big Dog is an early Australian pioneer of the BARF raw feeding movement, now widely stocked frozen through major and independent retailers. Feline Natural was founded by Geoff Bowers, a former Royal Marine and UK police dog handler who built the concept after a sabbatical studying grey wolves in Alaska with biologist Gordon Haber. The founder stories remain central to how each brand still talks about itself today.

Big Dog builds its recipes from named meat, offal and ground bone with whole-food vegetables, kelp and marine algae rather than a synthetic premix.

Feline Natural is made in New Zealand from 100 percent New Zealand-sourced ingredients, through manufacturing partners in Hawke's Bay and Gisborne.

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Big Dog Pet Foods

Big Dog

Australia · 5 products

RAW FROZEN·5

Natural Pet Food Group

Feline Natural

New Zealand · 19 products

CANNED·9
FREEZE-DRIED·7
POUCH·3

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