VETRISCIENCEKidney Health Chews, Renal Essentials Supplement for Cats, Kidney Care and Support with Mushroom, Astragalus Root, Nettle Seed and Herbs, Chicken, 120 Count

These chews are more like meaty Gummis than "treats". I break them into little pieces and add to the meal.This is why I give them five stars - kidney cats pee like crazy, dehydrating themselves and depleting their potassium and B vitamins, which leads to weakness and other problems. Giving subcutaneous fluids as we do (it's not that hard, don't be scared), there's even more peeing. These chews replace the lost vitamins and minerals and I have seen a real difference in our girl, who is in her second year of lab-verified kidney failure.Use a high-quality canned food (if they won't eat a "prescription" food, what's the point?), a spoonful of Gerber pureed jarred meat stirred in, the crumbled chews, two a.m. and two p.m., and once a day 2.5 mg of a Pepcid tablet - quarter a 10mg tab. Kidney kitties also get sour stomachs because of their imbalances, and if they feel yucky, they won't eat. This combined plan is keeping her eating, perky, and not just wasting away.The Gerber meat probably doesn't have kitty-required taurine, so it's being used to tempt and is soft on her elderly mouth, not a complete food. Works great. The Pepcid can be crushed and stirred into the food, but better put in a clear gelcap and given with a piller followed by an eyedropper squirt of water to be sure it goes down.Sub-Q fluids are key to flushing out the stuff the kidneys can't handle anymore - there's lots of online info about the needs of cats in kidney failure. These chews won't replace adequate fluids, but I can see a real difference in her strength since we started these.Good luck and I hope this helps.

Wonderful supplement read up on astragulus & rehmannia & u will find these to be exceptional for humans dogs cats etc.Cat responded better in a short while...after several months of everyday cat is incredibly better...after reading up on these roots I ordered human dose for myself...these are anti aging & they work! The chewable is hard for cats so I cut it up in food.Thank u Vetriscience & Amazon for having this!

The are excellent chews to help your cat if they are experiencing kidney/urinary issues. We had two cats with renal problems (one due to bladder crystals, the other due to genetics), and these chews helped improve their lab results for kidney function. The reason for taking off a star is because our cats did not find the scent or flavor appealing enough to eat. I had to mix these in with enough wet food that they wouldn't scent them in the food. As long as I could get them to eat these daily, the benefit was there. The vet was pleased with the change in renal lab values closer to normal ranges, and I was pleased knowing I was doing all I could to keep my elderly fur kids as healthy as I could.These chews are supposed moist, but when I first opened the bag their consistency was on the dry side. They crumbled easily for adding to their wet food, and I suspect that their drier texture was one reason the cats didn't enjoy them on their own as treats. The scent (to me) wasn't horrible, and as time went by it faded a bit every time the bag was opened. If you do purchase these for your cats, make sure you keep them as airtight as possible and possibly add something like marshmallows to the bag to help keep/add moisture to the treats to keep them from drying out.This isn't my first experience with VetriScience products. I've purchased other cat as well as dog items from them, and for the most part have been very, very pleased with the results. Our vet also recommends these products (though she doesn't sell them), so that helps me feel comfortable giving them to our pets.

Actually 00000 Stars!!! They shouldn't sell these to anyone!!! Has anyone ever had their cat actually eat them? They smell soooo bad when you open the packet and my cat and I wanted to run as far away as we could from them! Now they won't let me return them but they should be thrown away anyways. But I would like to get a refund!

Smells and feels like a quality product but my old senior cat wanted nothing to do with them. Wouldn’t even taste them-he’d smell them & then with nose up in the air walk away.

These helped our older cat with renal problems to live longer than our vet had expected and to feel better. After a couple of weeks of his eating them the improvement of how he felt was clear. I think he would have lived even longer if we had found out about these before he was in the advanced stages of the renal disease. We are now giving them to one of our male cats who is 11 to try to help prevent his getting renal issues as he gets older.If you are having problems with getting your cat to eat these and they like pill pockets or pill masker put a smear of pill pocket on each side of the treat. You don't need much just enough to stimulate their interest. You can also break the tail off the little fish shape after smearing it as sometimes they don't like the size and will eat it in two pieces when they wouldn't in one. If your cat still doesn't like these, there is a tablet form that you can put into a pill pocket. I don't know for sure but it might be possible to crush the tablets and add to a favorite food. After seeing the benefits to our older cat, I think it is well worth the extra effort to figure out a way to get your cat to eat them.

My cat is not picky. So when he repeatedly refused to eat even a small piece. I am sure these are low or poor quality. Not their fault my cat doesn't want to try them but he isn't usuall picky either. I suggest you revamp your taste goals and parameters to appeal to more diverse cat palette.