Why Cape Town cats are switching to raw
Cats evolved as desert hunters. They get most of their water from prey, almost none of their energy from carbohydrates, and rely on animal tissue for taurine, vitamin A and arachidonic acid. Dry kibble — even the premium bags lining Cape Town's pet-shop shelves — typically runs 30–50% carbohydrate and around 10% moisture. A raw food diet for cats puts the bowl back where feline biology expects it: high-protein, high-moisture, low-carb, with the vitamins and minerals already inside real meat and organ.
What's in a Buzz cat mix
Every Buzz mix is built on the prey-model ratio — roughly 80% muscle meat, 10% bone and 10% organ (half of which is liver). Proteins rotate across chicken, beef and venison so cats get a varied amino-acid profile without us bolting on synthetic supplements. Sourced from free-range South African farms, minced fresh, snap-frozen, and portioned into 200g packs so a small household isn't wrestling a kilo brick at 6am.
- • Free-range South African meat — chicken, beef, venison
- • Muscle, organ and ground bone in prey-model ratio
- • No grains, starches, vegetables or synthetic vitamin premix
- • 200g portion packs — practical for one- and two-cat homes
- • Frozen on the day it's made, delivered frozen
Delivery across Cape Town
We deliver raw cat food across Cape Town and the wider Western Cape — including the City Bowl, Atlantic Seaboard (Sea Point, Camps Bay, Hout Bay), Southern Suburbs (Claremont, Newlands, Constantia, Tokai), Northern Suburbs (Bellville, Durbanville, Brackenfell) and the False Bay side down to Muizenberg, Fish Hoek and Simon's Town. Orders are packed into our weekly Friday cycle so meat travels straight from supplier to freezer to your door, still solid.
How much raw food does my cat need?
The simple rule: an adult cat eats about 25g of raw mix per kilogram of bodyweight per day. Kittens, pregnant or nursing cats eat closer to 30g/kg. A 4kg adult lands at 100g a day — that's two 200g Buzz packs every three days, or roughly 15 packs a month. Use the feeding calculator to size it to your cat.
Transitioning a kibble-raised cat
Cats are creatures of habit, so go slow. Start with a teaspoon of raw mixed into the food they already love and grow the ratio over two to four weeks. Warm the raw to body temperature — straight-from-the-fridge food is a hard sell for a cat. If a meal is refused, take it up after 20 minutes and try again at the next feeding rather than leaving it out. Most Cape Town cats are fully transitioned inside a month, and the fussiest take six weeks.
What owners notice within a month
- • Smaller, firmer, far less smelly litter trays
- • Glossier coats and less shedding around the house
- • Cats drink less from the bowl — moisture is in the meal
- • Leaner body condition; overweight cats slim down without dieting
- • Calmer evenings — no carb-spike behaviour after meals
Raw cat food, South Africa-made
Most premium raw cat food in South Africa is built around imported lamb or chicken. Buzz is the opposite: South African meat, prepared locally, sold locally. Shorter cold-chain, smaller carbon footprint, and proteins your cat would actually have hunted on this continent. We started in Cape Town and grew from word-of-mouth between cat owners who could see the difference in the bowl and in the litter tray.
Get raw cat food delivered this Friday
Order by Wednesday for delivery on Friday across the Cape Peninsula. New customers get a feeding plan with their first box.
Bundu & Buzz is a fresh raw food and is not a complete formulated pet food. Information here is shared for owners who follow raw-feeding practices and is not veterinary advice.