Renal Wet Cat Food for Kidney Support, 3.5 oz, 12-Pack | Lamb Flavor, Renal Support, Convenient Portions, Moist Texture, Easy Serving, Non-GMO, Made in Italy

5 stars. This product appears to be keeping my 17yo cat alive better than other local USA products. I had long believed she has a kidney issue, never diagnosed. I wish I hadn't discovered this food. Seems healthy, follows me around all day asking for more. It seems digestible, no more explosive barfs. She doesn't seem to care about variety anymore, happy to scarf forza straight from the tin. My wife made fun of me for buying cat food from Italy. I think she's annoyed Stig is still kicking it too.

Unfortunately, the cat I bought it for who really has a fragile appetite in her old age, voted "no." The other three cats love this, which is both frustrating and a good endorsement. So my best guess on this sample is the picky eaters may or may not like it. The easy ones are ready any time any where to eat this.

10lbs of fluff in pics a couple of years ago, now 8-9lbs (longhaired double coat-more like quadruple coat!) I am writing this long review (and keeping it as short as possible lol by NOT telling everything!) as I hope it helps others seeking help for their beloved furry family members going through kidney disease and other issues. She no longer likes Forza10 renal support that much since the ingredients changed from lamb meat to lamb lung and possibly other changes which I’ve forgotten since I’ve wanted to write this months ago. She used to readily eat it when she’s experiencing lower kidney function periods, but now turns away from it or may eat only a tiny amount and the rest is fed to wildlife (I know we aren’t supposed to feed wildlife, but they need all the help they can get due to negative human actions). 18+ year old beloved rescued Longhaired Manx used to eat this food well during periods when her kidneys weren’t functioning sufficiently. She had acute kidney failure in April 2019, and was transitioned to whole prey based raw diet when she came to me in 09/2016, from a kibble and canned food diet. She has Manx Syndrome, as all poor little Manx kitties do to some degree and she has been one of the luckier ones thankfully for her sake and mine! Manx Syndrome is known to cause not only spine and nerve damage due to having the genetic mutation of missing spinal vertebra (tail) but also organ, GI, and/or urinary system dysfunctions. Unfortunately, as she’s grown older she’s been experiencing all of these problems which ultimately stems from the spinal vertebra mutation. She’s indoor-outdoor only because a prior owner had their veterinarian inhumanely amputate her of her front claws (declawed). It’s a safe neighborhood and I’ve observed her from day 1 letting her outside and she’s very cautious and doesn’t wander far. I just can’t keep her confined indoors when she is unable to jump or climb like she used to or like other fully intact cats. So this also has negative consequences for her health and longevity despite there being insufficient or nonexistent research. Internet search “Why a Cat Needs Her Claws” by Dr. Gary Loewenthal and hopefully anyone whom thinks otherwise will be inclined to change their archaic, selfish, and lazy ways and research and employ proper methods to discourage kitty scratching in unwanted areas instead of surgically cutting off their first knuckle bone which their claw grows from, causing them to unnaturally and uncomfortably walk on the tip of the painful stub remaining, arthritic and muscle problems, and worse behavioral problems than before. My kitty was one of the ‘fortunate’ amputees because there are horrific problems that can occur during and after the amputation that some poor kitties suffer through forever and it’s heartbreaking and tearjerking to read about. But my girl has caught 4 mice and 2 birds since I’ve had her and it makes me proud (though not of fully intact kitties whom really should NOT be allowed outside due to the billions of native species, especially birds, they murder annually! Domestic cats are NOT native to the US therefore prey species are NOT adapted to ‘be on alert for cats.’ ***Rainbow collars work BEST if a cat must be outside-not bells or other types, due to bird’s vision spectrum! Anyways, I am telling all of the above partly because I’ve kept her on a raw diet even after her kidney failure. But only because raw is the type of food she chooses most often. But I’ve discovered that because she needs less protein and phosphorus amounts than her kidneys can adequately process, she is more often stable when I rotate amongst the highest quality canned and freeze dried foods available. This also helps with the nausea experienced with kidney disease so she doesn’t associate one type of food with nausea and refuse to eat it. Due to published scientific research I read online, I now avoid foods with ANY of the phosphate salts e.g. tricalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, polyphosphates, etc. because felines cannot easily or properly digest these synthetic sources of phosphorus as can other non-obligate carnivorous mammals. It causes many problems for their GI and Urinary systems amongst others. I would bet 10 trillion dollars that researchers discover in the near future that processed foods with synthetic supplements are the cause for the many diseases our beloved felines currently suffer. I’ve observed and experienced firsthand the benefits of omitting the phosphate salts from my girl’s diet. She has many FEWER UTI’s-from every few days to every few months-, fewer negative kidney episodes, fewer bouts of constipation-used to be chronic and I mean literally chronic, where I’d have to implement strategies and supplements in rotation daily for months at a time in hopes of preventing megacolon, less nausea and just better overall. This omission occurred after ALL of the other things I’ve mentioned that she had been on for over a year, so I know this has had the biggest affect on her overall wellbeing. I’ve also switched her litter from corn based to other grass types-World’s Best to BoxiePro Air Lightweight plant based (proprietary blend of Barley and other grasses). I didn’t intend to switch again (never had her on clay litter and only look for softer types for her sensitive amputated front paws) but Amazon was out of stock of her variety and I just started reading reviews of same brand different type and saw several new reviewers mention that their cats began having UTI’s! I’ve actually suspected this in the past which is why I would try different brands and types of litters sans clay but due to her complex situation I could never conclusively verify personally that it was corn based litter. And I still am not convinced that it’s any specific litter type, but instead could be the dust particulates or the organic substrate idk but I’m trying a different one to see if it helps cease some of her issues. Update on litter: 2/20/23-I’ve been mixing half World’s Best unscented and Boxie Cat Air for several months now and she has been UTI free for the longest period since her kidney failure!!! I also continue to implement what I’ve mentioned in this review and numerous other things from acupressure massages by me (and I’m nowhere near expert!) and make sure she gets short walks around the perimeter of the 3000 sq. ft. house twice daily and access to cat grass that I grow in a container for her with organic soil and organic wheat grass, barley, oat, and rye seeds and occasionally catnip seeds. I also have NEVER given her any veterinary nor over the counter pest repellent systemic insecticide since I had a pup who fared poorly from them and passed away from liver disease at 16+. I use neem oil mixed with Earth?? brand hypoallergenic shampoo and conditioner and when she’s dry I use Kingdom of Basil’s Pest Repellent powder during flea and tick season and I bathe her every two to three weeks since that’s the only time she really lets me brush her thoroughly for a cat that should be brushed daily! There are many wonderful and conscientious companies out there producing SAFE products for our furry family members so just perform your due diligence and research online. Fresh foodstuffs are also best-“human food is bad for pets” misnomer must be abandoned in this day and age! Fresh food is best for ANY mammal or organism. Canned is better than kibble and freeze dried is better than both of these and raw and cooked fresh are best with proper nutritional values accounted for of course (not that we fully know what that entails for felines and other obligate carnivores yet! I rotate several different brands from Vital, Primal, Orijen wet food and freeze dried treats, Meow, Savage Cat, Cornucopia, Open Farm dry lamb as treats, Portland Pet Food for Cats-Luke’s and Boot’s types, etc. and all different protein types easily available. Some other notable brands she liked at one time, but I had to stop buying when they ‘sold out’ and the recipes changed to cheaper ingredients and she didn’t like them anymore because they would cause detrimental effects for her. I also occasionally order her raw foods from Hare Today and WholeFood4Pets. I let her choose what she needs to eat daily and sometimes that can change between morning and evening but this has kept her the most stable and free from vet visits for one year as of October 2021! She’s free fed and I leave at least two different foods in separate bowls out for her over a 24-hour period along with small piles of different treat types on a silicone pet food mat and clean that up weekly. I’ve even ordered her several different organ meats from Frankie’s Free Range online and another producer whose name eludes me. For ease on my part, I mixed them all together in an ‘organ stew’ lol and offered her a bowl as I do other food and she loved it! Thymus glands, brain, pancreas, prostate gland, kidneys, etc. as many of the organs I could find that she cannot obtain from ANY commercial food manufacturer EXCEPT for Savage Cat. But I still like to offer her variety because different animals and their respective organs have varying concentrations of nutrients-which is partly why our poor kitties are having so many health issues worldwide :( I’ve also ordered her duck heads, whole mice, whole quail, whole chicks, and whatever else I’ve been able to find from Hare today. I honestly thought she would love everything but the duck heads and it was the complete opposite! I bought a cleaver in case I had to ‘open’ some prey animals up to entice her which I did ultimately have to do but thankfully for my sake, not the duck heads lol! And I’m a vegan so if I can do it anyone else should have no issues! I do verify that all of the sacrificial animals were killed as humanely as possible but this is what we get when we want predators as pets that are adapted with very specific and limited nutritional requirements-furry vampire zombies! Weekly, I administer a 50-75mL volume for her 9lb size of subcutaneous fluids, Lactated Ringer’s solution. CBD, human grade as I’m in California, 18:1 and 8:1 ratios work the best for her pain and appetite. I could NOT have kept her eating as often as kitties need to if not for Cannabis sativa tinctures. I also administer Pet Wellbeing Kidney Support Gold per instructions when I haven’t made her tea, and Kingdom of Basil’s Etsy Shop, Cat Kidney Support herbal formula, which I have to make into a tea for her per instructions versus adding the herbal to her food, as I can’t add the full dosage unless it’s in tea form-good luck fooling a cat with foodstuffs lol! I also give her Kingdom of Basil’s Back Support formula for spine and arthritis issues and Pet Wellbeing’s Hairball Gold which really helps soothe her stomach and helps occasionally with her constipation problems-kidney and Manx related poor baby. I also will give her Rx Renal Feline by Rx Vitamins for Pets and Host Defense’s My Community Immune Support, Pet Wellbeing’s Life Gold and Mushroom Immune Support, Glandex regular Salmon flavored and also the one for cats, Mary Ruth’s Probiotics for Cats, Ion Gut Health for pets. I also have many of Natura Petz Organic products for cats and do especially swear by their UTI product. I also use Pet Wellbeing’s Urinary Gold whenever she first has symptoms of a UTI-which elderly female felines are very susceptible to in a chronic form. I add 9 drops of Hawaii Pharm’s Oregon Grape extract tincture to one of her water bowl’s that holds about 1&1/2 cups of filtered water. I also add some of the liquid supplements in the same volume to her other water dish and change these every other day. Some of these I give her daily and some every few days or weekly somewhat depending on her current condition. The CBD that I suggest for those that are not in a Cannabis Sativa friendly area is the one made by Rx Vitamins for Pets. Path with Paws d0t c0m also has very helpful information about kitties and kidney disease which is by a veterinarian truly only wanting to help animals and the people whom love them. They are also the owner of Kingdom of Basil on Etsy. I also supplement her daily with B vitamins, vitamin B12, potassium bicarbonate and gluconate, and a tiny dose of sodium bicarbonate. The dosage guidelines can be found on Tanya’s CRF website along with a plethora of helpful information and resources. She also had infected anal glands for the first time since she’s been with me in October 2021 at her last veterinary appointment and the vet was able to express them and she was prescribed Clavamox antibiotic which she has done well on in the past for UTIs. However, she had issues with Clavamox during the past year which caused her to have liquid diarrhea and she was doing worse on it and becoming more dehydrated along with the chronic dehydration caused by kidney disease. So now every couple of months I express them to make sure there’s no infection. It’s obvious when there is because she won’t be feeling well, will have a fever (her ears get extremely hot to the touch), and will have similar symptoms to a UTI sans running back and forth to the litter box urgently attempting to urinate but without any production. I discovered Pet Alive’s Anal Glandz tincture which helps remedy and more easily express her anal glands which I am able to do via the external method fortunately. It doesn’t smell too bad with or without infection and the discharge will be thick and viscous when they are infected and opposite when not. I also apply Herb Pharm’s Calendula oil extract tincture to her anus afterwards to help soothe her there. There are sites and videos which help describe and show the expression process and location of the anal sacs and how to properly and safely express them without causing pain or secondary injuries. Patience and gentleness and wrapped in a towel help with this process and I follow the directions on the Pet Alive bottle and apply the warm compress when she’s laying down for as long as she’ll stay there prior to expression which helps release the contents more easily and also helps with infection of the sacs/glands. Her ducts are visible once you know what to look for and are located at approximately the 4 & 8 o’clock positions on her anus. It’s similar procedure for dogs and of course there’s more information online for dogs regarding this but it’s helpful also. I’ve tried almost everything and I mean literally everything, aside from kidney transplants or stem cell therapies, in the tens of thousands of dollars for my baby girl and the things I wrote above are what has worked for her. I have a ton of tried containers of products that didn’t work or were too difficult to transition her to which I’m going to donate to a local cat rescue. I’ve spent months worth of time researching anything and everything kitty safe and effective because as obligate carnivores, they are quite sensitive with their completely different metabolic processes than other organisms. I also occasionally must administer enemas to her and fortunately she’s not adverse to water like many kitties. I use bottled purified water which I heat in the microwave to a safe temperature and make a saline solution from high quality sea salt and stomach ease tea from Yogi brand. I empty and rinse the contents of the baby enemas from Fleet brand. Do NOT give the contents of the Fleet enema, nor any commercial enema, as they are toxic to kitties if you must give an enema. There are resources online for how to do this safely and properly. Make sure to use more than one reputable source for anything you research! Best of luck to those poor kitties going through illnesses and diseases which ultimately stems from poor quality nutrition. Start introducing MANY types of different brands and proteins to your kitties young so you don’t encounter the poor kitty whom only eats one type of food and then when they get sick, they won’t eat at all, and cats MUST have food within 24-48 hours or they will develop hepatic lipidosis which is untreatable and fatal within a short time period :(

Our cat is in kidney failure, so this is a low phosphorus food, which is what she needs. She seems to like the food well enough she wants to eat it often, but she does not always eat all the little things that are in it, but she is getting a little better about that. She prefers a moose type of food, but those usually have too much phosphorus. So overall, it seems to be a good food as long as your cat is not picky with chunky little things or say pieces of rice, barley peas, things like that. A little expensive if your cat wants to be a glutton and eat a lot, but when they’re in kidney failure, you want to keep them eating I even add a little bit of water to the food to make sure they’re getting enough hydration for the kidneys.

This food is a miracle & I can't even begin to tell you how relieved I am to be writing this review, it's been one heck of a ride. My trash jackal was a dumpster baby taken from her mother bug eyed & entirely unready. I got her between 4-6 weeks old &, like a fool, trusted the rescue I adopted her from & did not bottle feed her, huge mistake. She has all the classic early weaning issues & even developed allergies &, more recently, undiagnosed urinary tract issues. We moved over 3 hours away from her usual vet & the poor thing fell apart. I tried finding a sympathetic vet in the area, but got a lot of eyebrows raised when I mentioned her allergies in an attempt to explain why she CAN'T go on ANY of the regular prescription foods. It's been a nightmare to say the least & I was honestly at a loss until I found this food! I could cry, sincerely. From the bottom of mine & my husband's hearts, THANK YOU to every individual responsible for this food. Not only are the ingredients so entirely & thoroughly mindful of dietary needs, but they are incredibly safe for most allergy sensitive cats & the best part... She LOVES it! Yes, the smell is strong, but it's actually kinda nice because it covers the scent & taste of other medicines! She doesn't throw it up if I serve it in 6th's, she's excited again for food (lamb is her favorite haha), she's not breaking out in any hives, her bowel movements are perfectly healthy, even her pica has seemed to slow, & the best part... Her spontaneous UTI's Just. Stopped. I can't begin to tell you how relieved we are! Compared to revolving bills from vets that don't care about her or provide any sort of health plan... This is ABSOLUTELY the BEST deal anyone is going to get! She's only been on it 2 moths & everything has turned around! We're just about in need of another box so it lasts a decent amount of time (we supplement with another dry food). Can't recommend it more! Do your cat & yourself the greatest favor & buy this food. I've spent hours over the course of years looking for the right food for our sickly, allergy prone little beasty & I couldn't be more pleased!

my cat loves this stuff but for some reason the seller is not able to actually send me the whole 32 pack of cat food. I get the 12 pack just fine but when I'm trying to get the 32 quantity one they are just sending me a single can. It's truly bizarre and I guess I could eventually get the whole 32 pack for free if I keep having to go to Amazon and complaining that they only sent me one and I want a refund. I mean, who buys a single can of cat food through Amazon? I have this one subscribe and save and at this point I'm pretty curious to see if they'll just send me a single again. It'd be nice if my cat liked the Weruva as much as this one

My cat had firmly rejected the Hill's Science Diet monopoly. He wouldn't eat it mixed with anything and had lost over five pounds. He also has stage three kidney disease. I gave him this food and he wolfs it down. Loves it.

My cat Leo had lost three pounds very quickly. He was quite sick. He was diagnosed with kidney disease in its early stages. My daughter who is an expert with cats ordered this Forza 10 wet food and the dry food as well. Leo has regained his weight and is thriving. Thank you makers of Forza 10. I highly recommend this brand from Italy.

My cat loves this. Not sure if this is good for her kidneys coz she has CKD but she will eat this.

I can safely presume that cats love this flavour despite it being a special dietary care food.