People ask why I’m obsessive about cat supplements.
The honest answer starts with a kitten named Valkyrie who taught me that surviving and thriving aren’t the same thing.
Valkyrie was born with feline herpes. In her early weeks, I watched her struggle through asthma attacks, refuse food for days at a time, and become so thin I could feel every bone in her tiny body. I took her to vet after vet, desperate to find someone who could help her.
She survived. The treatment worked. But then her vet told me something I wasn’t prepared to hear: recovery wasn’t the end.
It was the beginning of maintenance. The virus would stay dormant in her system. Her immune system would always be more vulnerable. And just like any chronic condition—in humans or animals—staying healthy would require ongoing care. Daily L-lysine supplements to support her immune system. Not as treatment. As prevention. I bought every lysine supplement I could find. She refused them all.
Lysine syrups that meant syringe-feeding her twice a day—restraining her, forcing the dropper into her mouth while she struggled. Chewables she’d refuse outright.
"Every supplement session turned into a fight, and I could see her starting to hide when she saw me coming."
I was supposed to be giving her the one thing keeping her healthy, and instead I was destroying our trust.
"That’s when I realized: in human medicine, we’ve figured out how to make maintenance easy. Pills you can swallow. Gummies you can enjoy like candy. Options that actually work with how people live. But in cat care? We expect them to just… cooperate."
Around the same time, I met Jica through our boyfriends. We weren’t close—we’d only met because our boyfriends were friends. Until we started talking about our cats. She had her own nightmare: her cat was severely iron deficient and needed daily supplements. Same story—bought everything, cat refused everything.
“Wait,” she said. “Your cat won’t take supplements either?” That conversation changed everything.
Jica had a background in product development. I had an obsession with solving this problem. Between us, we realized: if two dedicated cat parents couldn’t make supplements work for our cats, the problem wasn’t us or our cats. It was every single product on the market.
So we decided to build what should have already existed: a 10-in-1 multivitamin with immune-supporting ingredients like L-lysine, taurine, and omega-3s in a format cats actually want to eat. Not just for cats recovering from illness. For every cat whose health deserves the same thoughtfulness we give our own.
"Valkyrie eats her Chumi every morning now. She’s healthy. Her immune system stays strong. And maintenance isn’t a fight anymore—it’s part of her routine. I built this because my cat needed ongoing care to stay healthy."
We kept building because every cat deserves wellness they’ll actually maintain—not just survive, but thrive. Because treatment saves lives. Maintenance keeps them worth living.
