Partner Freeze-Dried Raw Ostrich Cat Food – 97% Animal Ingredients, 58% Protein & 21% Fat (Dry Matter), 12g Nitrogen-Sealed Single-Serve Packs

The ostrich freeze-dried category has a fat problem that nobody puts on the front of the bag.

The leading high-ostrich freeze-dried option on the market runs about 90% ostrich and delivers impressive protein density — above 60% on a dry matter basis. But read the fine print and the fat lands at roughly 27%. That’s an energy profile built for weight gain or high-output cats, not for the indoor, neutered cat that makes up most of the U.S. market. It also comes in a large bag, and user reviews of that format tell a consistent story: the pieces go hard, the cat loses interest, and the bag sits half-eaten.

Partner is built to keep the ostrich density while fixing the fat number and the freshness problem.

97% of the formula is animal-based. Ostrich muscle meat is the first ingredient, supported by chicken with bone for natural calcium, chicken breast for lean protein density, chicken heart and liver for taurine and organ micronutrients, and a small amount of ostrich liver and ostrich oil. The guaranteed analysis lands at ≥58% crude protein and ≥21% crude fat on a dry matter basis — the protein density sits right at the top of the category, while the fat stays about six percentage points below the leading high-ostrich formula. That difference matters for the cat that spends most of its day indoors.

Why ostrich, specifically?

Ostrich is one of the least commonly fed proteins in commercial cat food. Most cats have genuinely never been exposed to it, which means it does not carry the sensitization history that chicken, beef, fish, or even turkey can accumulate over years of daily feeding. It is a lean red meat — low in fat, rich in iron and essential amino acids — and its protein structure is sufficiently different from conventional meats that the immune system is less likely to recognize it as a known trigger. That is why novel-protein elimination diets are built around proteins like ostrich, and why 58% of U.S. cat parents say they would try a novel-protein food.

The 8:1:1 raw ratio is the structural reason this qualifies as a complete meal.

80% muscle meat, 10% bone, 10% organ. The bone fraction comes from chicken with bone, delivering natural calcium and phosphorus rather than a synthetic mineral premix; the organ fraction from chicken heart, chicken liver, and ostrich liver supplies the dense micronutrients muscle alone cannot. No meat meal. No starch. No gums. No synthetic vitamin premix sprayed onto a filler base to close the nutritional gaps.

Why 12g nitrogen-flushed packs.

Freeze-dried raw is not shelf-stable in the way kibble is. Every time a large bag is opened, oxygen and moisture start degrading the texture and aroma. A 12g pack is one clean serving, opened only when it’s about to be eaten. The piece stays soft enough to crumble between your fingers, the aroma stays intact, and there is no half-empty bag generating guilt in the pantry. For single-cat homes and rotation feeding across proteins, it is the format that actually gets finished.