Weruva Wx Phos Focused Pate Formulas 5.5oz Can Variety Pack, Pack of 12

I’ve been feeding this to my cat for the past few months since she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, and she really likes it - it’s a good way to ensure she’s getting a food with lower phos since she doesn’t like the canned k/d cat foods at all, and wet food is best. She thankfully will eat dry k/d food, but this wet food is a good way to sneak in more hydration, and I like to mix supplements in. Her labs have been good lately too despite this food not being a special kidney diet for cats.

I have a soon to be 19yr old cat, who was going down hill rapidly 2 1/2 months ago. He has been on the famous brands prescription renal diets (canned and dry) for the past 5 years although he was in very very early stages of renal failure...maybe stage 1. He was on the food because I had 4 of his siblings and all had varying degrees if renal failure. The other 3 have passed in the last 2 years....from cancers, not renal failure, so I'm left with one. Although renal food may cause a loss of muscle mass which is sad to see, it did control or stall the renal failure. My boy has several medical problems so when he started failing, getting him to eat became impossible causing him to lose even more weight ...to skin and bones. He was only in Stage II of renal failure due to the strict diet. It really upset me seeing him lose weight almost daily. I would pet him and only feel bones. On my last vet visit, in addition to adding another medicine, the vet said give him anything he wanted to eat in order to keep the liver working and get him to gain weight. He was really on the edge of giving up and he was so weak. I decided to try Weruva Phosphate controlled food. OMG....the cat hasn't stopped eating this after the 1st taste!! He devours this food. It seems to be a very clean protein quality food. It's not cheap, but neither are the ingredients, but neither was the prescription food which had less quality ingredients in my opinion. In the past 2 months, he has filled-out and now I do not feel a boney old cat, but an elderly cat with nice coat and appropriate weight. He was 10.2 lbs earlier in the year, then a few months ago went down to 7.9lbs. He is now 9.2lbs. That's a lot. This food says it is only a supplemental feeding, not for all the time, because it is very low phosphate and doesn't meet the FDA cat food requirements. So I have ordered the regular Weruva also, the lowest protein I can find, and add a phosphate binding powder to the food (important for renal failure treatment). Hopefully his next blood test and renal values in 3 months, will look okay after giving him this food for several months. By then he will be 19 yrs old. All I know is that this food saved him at the time, and gave him something delicious to eat again. He demands this food now....and for now, I'm happy to give him the calories he loves, although I may have an impossible time if I have to go back to a straight prescription renal diet.

She likes it, hey Mikey! But, the packaging from Weruva is so cumbersome. It is SO BUSY. It is hard to understand what in the heck I am buying. They REALLY need to run that by a consumer panel. My other cat loves only some of the flavors, so I would like to get in a different variety, like Pate or junked... But I have no idea how to translate from one to the other. My cats do NOT like the "hydrating fluid" don't know what that is, but all 3 turn up their noses.

Made my cat sick more than once with more than one flavor. Not returnable so wasted my money. I just have to throw it away. It isn’t just because it is new to him. Other new things have never caused this.

One of our kitties was diagnosed with Stage 2 CKD, while unfortunate this food was a life saver in her food rotation. A tip for everyone that is having their cat struggle with this food is to slowly transition them into it. This food will definitely be a staple in our food rotation for our little one.

My cat has kidney issues and need low phosphorus food. She did like this but wasn't enthusiastic about it. She did keep it down and it didn't cause any digestive issues. One of the chicken flavors seemed very gelatin like texture that seemed unpleasant to me but she ate it and had no adverse reactions. Higher priced than like other low phosphorus foods.

Cats love the Wx pates. Great variety pack

My Renal girl who will usually eat anything does not like these foods. I tested her with the chicken first and she didn't want it then with the Chicken and Tilapia, she ate some but not all and then I started mixing it with regular canned cat food and she eats it most of the time. Since this is low phosphorus food, I started adding Phos-Bind to regular food and making it a low-phosphorous food BUT, be very careful how much you use because Phosphorous is a VERY IMPORTANT nutrient for cats but from what I read too much phosphorous is considered one of the reasons why cats have Renal failure so I've found a way to reduce it by binding the phosphorous so it's less but not complete removal. Summary: I won't be buying this food again. These special foods are very pricey especially if they don't eat it.