Icelandic+ Herring Whole Fish Cat Treat 1.5-oz Bag

He’s a fan!
Contrary to a lot of reviews, these are a good treat for the right cat.They do smell like dried fish. If you can’t abide the smell of dried fish, probably skip. But really it’s not the awful stench people are saying.They definitely are large, and hard. I wouldn’t feed these unsupervised or whole to cat, but treat time is supposed to be about bonding and reward anyway.My cat and I figured the best way to enjoy the big fishes is if I hold the fish and he crunches away with his back teeth. He thinks this is fun and I think about the plaque being removed by his crunchy fishy toothbrush. He also likes them broken into about four pieces as regular little treats.I’m not sure I understand the complaints about them being too hard to break or cut. I also cannot break or cut his kibble pieces or other hard treats. His big ol knife teeth do that part when he crunches them. Cats will swallow food whole sometimes too, without crunching, which is why you shouldn’t give them lion sized kibble or entire herring whole. Fairly basic.I am going to try soaking them. He’s a big fan of freeze dried minnow tea, so I assume he’ll like herring tea as well. They have a stronger smell, so he may be even more excited.I think they’ll also be wonderful ground up as a food topper if he’s ever feeling picky about food.So tldr: fishy fish, make big fish small for catcat using human breaky hands

It’s fish
Bought this package for our cat’s birthday, they are very smelly, but it’s fish…so. Our cat didn’t eat them, she played with them and the odor is very potent that we ended up throwing them. Still giving it five stars because it was exactly as advertised, our cat just didn’t like them

Bought these for our cats, hard for them to chew, hard to cut with kitchen shears…suggestion below
I was excited to try these with our cats. I’ve been giving them other brands of freeze dried minnows trying to find a good one but I wasn’t too happy where the minnows are sourced from: Asia and a polluted US lake? When I saw these Herring from Iceland I was thrilled! When the bag arrived I was a bit underwhelmed because it was a small bag, I was expecting a larger sized bag as in the photo but not to worry because the fish are sized pretty large and the size of each fish was bigger than a minnow so I was excited for our cats to try them. Smell was as you would expect it, fishy, but in a good way.When I gave them to my eager cats they sniffed it, picked it up in their mouth, tried to bite/chew but were unsuccessful because they were too tough for them to bite into. They just left their fish in the bowl and walked away. One cat came back to have another go but I could tell it was too hard so he just left it again. Ain’t no way they were going to waste these fish as they’re not your typical cheap treat, so I took each fish to cut them in tiny pieces with heavy duty kitchen shears but I was having a difficult time myself. Some parts of the fish I had to reluctantly throw away because I could not cut them up and if I couldn’t cut it up with heavy duty kitchen shears I didn’t want my cats to break their teeth trying. Perhaps I could throw them in a blender to turn them into bacon bit size or shavings??It would be great if these were freeze dried to make it easier to eat for cats and I’m sure small dogs or elderly dogs too. Not freeze dried to dust, but freeze dried enough to retain something to chew (such as freeze dried minnows) and clean the teeth. If so, I’d be a happy repeat customer…I have 8 cats and love to spoil them.

Cats won’t eat them and they really stink!
I could put up with the smell if the cats would eat them, but not one of the three would touch them(two of them LOVE dog food, even kibble, so they’re not picky). The dogs will eat them, but they’ll eat almost anything. The Amzey freeze-dried minnows are much better, they don’t smell and all the animals LOVE them. They’re a much better buy.