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Brand facts & recall history · updated 2026-07-11

Weruva: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods

Weruva is whose parent company is not publicly confirmed, founded 2006 — it scores green on 0 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (2 red, 2 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 231 Weruva foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 231 Weruva foods in our corpus

The scorecard

WSAVA-aligned criteria

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's nutrition guidelines suggest four questions to ask any pet food maker before you buy. Most "best dog food" sites skip straight to ingredient vibes and star ratings — we publish the actual answers instead, each sourced, or marked honestly undisclosed when we can't confirm it.

0 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 2 confirmed no · 2 undisclosed. Undisclosed is common, especially for smaller brands — it means we couldn't confirm an answer from a public source, not that the answer is unfavorable.

? Qualified nutritionist on staff Undisclosed

No fetched source (official About/Family page, FAQ, or trade press) names a board-certified veterinary nutritionist (ACVN/ECVCN Diplomate) or a PhD in animal nutrition on staff. Could not verify; not asserting false since absence was not exhaustively confirmed.

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✕ Owns its manufacturing Co-packed

Weruva's foods are produced at a third-party human-food cannery (Songkla Canning Company, Thailand) rather than a Weruva-owned plant. Some aggregators allege family/ownership ties to the plant, but that was not verifiable on any fetched source; based on verifiable sources this is a co-packer arrangement.

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“Weruva's pet food comes from Songkla Canning Company in Thailand”
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? Runs AAFCO feeding trials Undisclosed

No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 466 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.

✕ Publishes peer-reviewed research None found

A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.

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These four checks come from WSAVA's global nutrition guidelines for evaluating a pet food manufacturer — not our own opinion score. Read our full methodology →

The company

Who makes Weruva

Ownership and history, each sourced independently — private-label and co-packed brands often hide the actual manufacturer behind the name on the bag.

Parent company

Not publicly confirmed

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“Weruva is a family company, wholly owned and operated by pet parents David & Stacie Forman”

Weruva is independent and privately held; per its official site it is wholly owned and operated by founders David & Stacie Forman (no corporate parent above the brand). Operating entity is Weruva International, Inc. Third-party aggregators mention 'Forman Industries,' but that was not verifiable on any official/fetched source, so value is left null.
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Founded

2006

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“Founded in 2006, Weruva was named after David and Stacie Forman's three rescued cats.”

Stated verbatim on Weruva's official 'Meet the Family' page.
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Headquarters

Natick, Massachusetts, USA

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“Weruva, Inc. PO Box 60 Natick, MA 01760”

Official Weruva FAQ page lists the company address in Natick, MA (given as a PO Box). Search-result snippets also cite Natick, MA.
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The safety record

What Weruva costs, against everything else we have priced

The median Weruva wet food we have priced works out at $24.56 per 1,000 kcal, against $18.02 for every wet food in the corpus — so it sits about 1.4x above the market. Cost per 1,000 kcal is the only basis that survives different bag sizes and moisture levels; per pound this comparison would mean nothing. On composition the gap is usually smaller than the price gap implies: 59.3% dry-matter protein against a corpus median of 46.7%.

Weruva foods by cost per 1,000 kcal

The 25 cheapest of 133 priced Weruva foods, by verified cost per 1,000 kcal.
FoodFormProtein (DM)Cost / 1,000 kcalBuy
Weruva Cat Person Chicken & Turkey Paté Wet Cat Food wet 45.5% $10.14 Check price
Weruva Cat Person Tuna & Salmon Paté Wet Cat Food Cups wet 54.5% $12.28 Check price
Weruva Cat Person Tuna Paté Wet Cat Food Cups wet 54.5% $12.50 Check price
Weruva Cat Paté Jeopurrdy Licious Chicken Slide N Serve Pouch Wet Food wet 52.9% $14.09 Check price
Soulistic Paté Chicken Dinner in a Hydrating Purée Wet Canned Cat Food wet 43.8% $14.35 Check price
Soulistic Paté Chicken & Turkey in a Hydrating Purée Wet Cat Food wet 43.8% $14.43 Check price
Weruva Cat Person Chicken & Duck Paté Wet Cat Food wet 45.5% $15.29 Check price
Weruva Cat Stew Stew's Clues Turkey, Chicken & Salmon in Gravy Wet Food wet 46.7% $15.34 Check price
Weruva Cat Stew Goody Stew Shoes Chicken & Salmon in Gravy Wet Food wet 46.7% $15.63 Check price
Weruva Cat Stew Taco Stewsday Beef, Chicken & Salmon in Gravy Wet Food wet 43.3% $15.73 Check price
Weruva BFF OMG Gravy Chicken & Lamb Selfie Cam Wet Cat Food wet 53.3% $15.99 Check price
Weruva BFF Minced Tuna & Chicken 4Eva In Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet 70.6% $16.23 Check price
Weruva BFF Minced Tuna & Shrimp Sweethearts In Gravy Wet Can Cat Food wet 70.6% $16.45 Check price
Weruva Cat Person Chicken Paté Wet Cat Food Cups wet 45.5% $16.47 Check price
Weruva Cats in the Kitchen Splash Dance Chicken & Ocean Fish Wet Food wet 58.8% $16.50 Check price
Weruva Cat Stew Stewlander Duck & Salmon in Gravy Wet Canned Food wet 46.7% $16.68 Check price
Weruva TruLuxe Glam 'N Punk with Lamb & Duck in Gelée Wet Cat Food wet 55.6% $16.80 Check price
Weruva Cats in the Kitchen Lamb Burger-ini Au Jus Wet Can Cat Food wet 58.8% $16.92 Check price
Weruva Cats in the Kitchen Chicken Frick 'A Zee Au Jus Wet Cat Food wet 66.7% $17.08 Check price
Cats in the Kitchen Chicken Frick 'A Zee Chicken Recipe Au Jus Wet Cat Food wet 66.7% $17.08 Check price
Weruva Cat Stew Stewy Lewis Lamb, Chicken & Salmon in Gravy Wet Food wet 46.7% $17.30 Check price
Soulistic Originals Pure Bliss Tuna Whole Meat in Gravy Wet Cat Food wet 75.0% $18.39 Check price
Weruva Cats in the Kitchen Kitten Kitten Frick 'A Zee Wet Cat Food wet 50.0% $18.55 Check price
Weruva Cats in the Kitchen Fowl Ball Chicken & Turkey Wet Can Cat Food wet 53.3% $18.77 Check price
Weruva Classic Cat Mideast Feast with Tilapia in Gravy Wet Canned Food wet 75.0% $18.82 Check price

Showing 25 of 133; the rest are in the food list below and on the cost database. “Check price” goes to a retailer and may earn us a commission. It does not affect the ranking, which is computed purely from verified cost per calorie. Full disclosure.

What Weruva actually puts in its food

The ingredients this brand reaches for most across its 231 verified foods, counted once per recipe. Each links to what the ingredient is, what the evidence says, and how common it is industry-wide.

FDA recall history

Joined from the FDA's own Animal & Veterinary recall feed (2019–present) plus curated pre-2019 records — the same live-checked feed as our full recall database, filtered to Weruva.

No FDA recalls on record for Weruva in the FDA's Animal & Veterinary feed (2019–present) or our curated pre-2019 records. That's what's currently documented — not a guarantee no recall has ever happened; see the coverage note below.

Join of data/recalls.json (FDA Animal & Veterinary recall feed, 2019-present) + data/recalls_historical.json. This is NOT a complete lifetime recall history; recalls predating 2019 (or absent from the FDA datatable) are not represented unless curated in recalls_historical.json.

The corpus

What we've verified from Weruva's labels

Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.

Foods verified

231

0 dog · 231 cat

Feeding-trial validated

0

of 231 (0%)

Formulated to meet

0

AAFCO paper calculation

Label transparency

44%

avg. fields disclosed

wet 224 (97%)
dry 4 (2%)
freeze-dried 3 (1%)

The foods

Foods from Weruva we've verified

Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.

FoodFormAAFCO
Soulistic Moist & Tender Tuna & Turkey in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Turkey Dinner in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Chicken Dinner in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Beef Dinner in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Tuna & Beef in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Salmon Dinner in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Duck Dinner in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Tuna & Duck in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Tuna & Chicken in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Tuna & Salmon in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Tuna & Lamb in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Moist & Tender Lamb Dinner in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Midnight Delight Mackerel & Tuna Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Double Happiness Tuna & Crab in Gelée Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Harvest Sunrise Chicken & Pumpkin Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Seaside Serenity Salmon & Tuna Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Pure Bliss Tuna Whole Meat in Gravy Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Good Karma Chicken in Gravy Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Island Illusion Salmon & Tuna in Soup Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Good Karma Chicken in Gravy Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Nautical Nirvana Tuna & Skipjack Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Aqua Grill Tilapia & Tuna Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Shrimply Divine Tuna & Shrimp Gelée Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Triple Harmony Chicken, Salmon & Tuna Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Autumn Bounty Chicken in Pumpkin Soup Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Luna Tuna in Pumpkin Soup Wet Cat Food Pouch wet Not yet verified Soulistic Originals Sweet Salutations Chicken & Tuna Gravy Wet Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Kitten Chicken Breast Paté Formula Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Kitten Chicken & Pumpkin Gravy Formula Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified Soulistic Kitten Tuna in Gravy Formula Wet Canned Cat Food wet Not yet verified
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