FreeCat is a small, tightly focused cat range — eight products covering plant-based enrichment toys, freeze dried treats and one clumping litter. Everything in the range is labelled all natural, and the toys are built around two different plants that cats respond to, which is the main choice you are making on this page.
Catnip or silvervine?
Catnip is the familiar one, and the All Natural Pure Catnip and the All-Natural Catnip Wand both use it. It is worth knowing that responsiveness to catnip is inherited and a sizeable minority of cats simply do not react to it, and kittens generally do not respond until they are a few months old. Silvervine is the alternative: the All-Natural Silvervine Sticks and the Silvervine Twiggy Star Ball use it, and a good number of cats that ignore catnip will engage with silvervine instead. If you have tried catnip and got nothing, silvervine is the sensible next test rather than more catnip. The Gall Fruit Wand is the third option again — silvervine gall fruit, the knobbly growths on the vine, which many cats find stronger than the plain wood. The sticks and the star ball also give a cat something to gnaw and rub against, which is a different kind of play from a wand you dangle.
Treats and litter
Two freeze dried treats sit alongside the toys: Freeze Dried Chicken Cube Cat Treats, a single-protein everyday reward, and Freeze Dried Green Lipped Mussel, the shellfish treat usually chosen for cats whose owners want a joint-support ingredient in treat form. Freeze drying keeps the pieces light and shelf stable, so they break easily into smaller portions for training or for a cat that needs its treat allowance kept small. The Premium Clumping Cat Litter is the odd one out in the range — a clumping litter is the type that binds urine into a scoopable ball, which lets you remove waste daily and top up rather than emptying the whole tray. Give any new litter a gradual changeover, mixing it with the old type over several days, because cats object to an abrupt switch more than most owners expect.
