Weruva Cat Food Review

The makers of Weruva cat food describe their product as “elegant and sumptuous”, and visually, inside and outside the can, I’d say that’s accurate. Like its sister brand BFF, Weruva is one of those new luxury brands coming at you with adorable packaging and even cuter names for the formulas inside. I will fully admit to being an easy mark for almost anything in cute, colorful packaging, which makes me really appreciate this new wave of “pretty” pet food. Those cans that look like medicine never made me swoon in the pet store aisles.  Weruva is mid-range priced, in comparison with other grain-free lines.

But it’s not all clever marketing, Weruva is quality human grade food for cats produced in a human food facility using antibiotic-free and hormone-free meat. You can see the real, natural meat texture in the can. This is “Peking Ducken”, one of the favorites around here. It’s chicken and duck – and that’s precisely what it looks like!

Most, but not all, of the Weruva cat food line is grain free. Unfortunately, Weetzie’s absolute favorite, “Asian Fusion” (tuna, rice and anchovies) falls into the not grain-free category, so it’s not part of the regular meal rotation. Weetzie is a big seafood fan, so she’s also very enamored of Weruva’s “Mack & Jack” (Mackerel and Skipjack tuna) and “Mideast Feast” (Tuna and Tilapia).

Pixie doesn’t really have a favorite food, of any brand or meat type. She loves most food equally – except vegetables. Were she human, this would be sad and unfortunate. But she’s a cat, an obligate carnivore, and therefore doesn’t need any vegetables in her diet at all. A lot of the Weruva formulas contain cat-bite-sized pieces of carrot or large whole green peas. As the cats don’t need them, they’re clearly added to visually appeal to us humans – and it works. I look at the peas and carrots and think their meal looks homey, nourishing, and comforting. The cats have other opinions. I’ll often come back to their dishes and find all the meat gone, and some sad and lonely pieces of carrot remaining. Or a clean bowl with two shiny whole green peas. The peas are VERY unpopular around here, and they seem to be the ONE thing on the planet that Pixie won’t eat – and this from a cat who regularly eats lint and dust bunnies. (Though I’ve discovered if I mash up the peas, Pixie will eat them without issue. Sort of like how they say you can hide veggies in your kid’s food by throwing them in the blender first. But, again, Pixie doesn’t NEED to eat the peas.)

Our cats thoroughly enjoy Weruva, and I feel good about serving it to them, but they don’t get quite as excited about it as they do some of the other grain free cat food brands we serve them regularly. (Maybe it’s the veg?)