Weruva Wx Phos Focused, Chicken & Tilapia Formula in Gravy, 3oz Can (Pack of 12)

This is the best low phosphorus urinary tract diet cat food that I've found so far. It tends to get negative reviews, and I will admit, my cat doesn't exactly gobble it down. I imagine it's like having a healthy chicken breast versus a Chic-Fil-A sandwich in human terms...BUT! HERE'S WHY I think this cat food is the best I've come across. It doesn't have fillers like corn or wheat. Underline and bold that! And it's made with muscle meat, rather than cooking down meat with bones and all. Eliminating bones helps reduce the phosphorus levels.My cat does need coaxing to eat it. I grind up senior kibble and sprinkle it on the top. And I sprinkle some eggshell powder to add back in calcium lost by feeding muscle meat. The important reasons I use the Wx is that he is getting a more species specific diet, and in one year, he went from upward trending mild kidney disease at 2.4 to completely healthy at 1.6. And even though he doesn't always gobble it down, having healthy kidney function is the most important reason I feed him this.A note on the other prescription canned foods if you're interested: The expensive mainstream cat food brand's first ingredients are corn and wheat. And my original vet would tell me over and over that it's tested and scientifically proven... but cats aren't built to digest corn or wheat, it's not species appropriate. It's also a known inflammatory and allergen. Its cheap filler to lower the phosphorus levels and charged with a premium price. Also something to consider, the American Vet Association is funded by many of the mainstream brands...I tried an expensive mainstream label at the direction of a vet when he was first diagnosed 3 years ago. It made my cat belchy, gassy, and he had the stinkiest poops. I worked with another vet with continued education in feline nutrition, and she helped me navigate his diet. He is now in a healthy range.

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.

As long as the cat likes it, I'll continue to purchase it

I have only found two low phos cat foods that my 19 year old picky eater with CKD will eat and this is one of them. Even with starting slow and mixing in with their old food he refused so many others but consistently loves this one.

Cats do not like the smell of this and when you open the can, it looks like paste . High price for the size of the cans, but bottom line is, the cats Take a sniff and walk away... would not recommend.

My cat wouldn’t even try this stuff. I knew it looked awful to me, but hey, I’m not a cat. My cat barely got close enough to sniff it before moving away.I’m sure it has all the necessary nutritional stuff, but only if the cat will eat it.I donated it to a sanctuary. Hopefully they can find a cat that will eat it.