June 20th 2009 2:42 pm
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TASTE TEST?
a few days ago, my mom started to transition me off of the royal canin, and onto wellness 'just for puppy' dry food.

for fun, she put a few bits of royal canin on one small plate, and then a few pieces of wellness on another, let me smell both, put them down, and waited to see which one i would go after.

i picked the wellness, didn't even touch the royal canin anymore. she thinks that i picked the wellness only because it's new and different, and i was curious and intrigued. she could be right. i am a curious little fellow after all.

as she thought she was running low on the wellness treats, she's been using some of the wellness dry kibble in lieu of the chewy treats to lure me into my kennel and to reward me for going potty. i like them. it's fun crunching on them, eating them a little at a time, since they are round kibble slightly bigger than the tiny triangular royal canin kind.

I DON'T LIKE LUNCH?
i still don't eat much in the way of lunch.

i pretty much scarf up the breakfast (right now 1/3 cup of dry royal canin mini puppy 33 kibble) that my dad gives me. at lunch though, i get distracted by toys and whatever my parents seem to be eating that smells yummier, and i nibble every now and then over the course of 30 minutes or so. she has only been giving me half of 1/3 of a cup, because of the treats she gives me throughout the day, and she doesn't want me to get gluttonous. i doubt i'll have that problem though, since i'm not good at focusing on eating so far! :p

she also tried changing lunchtime for me from noon to 12:30 and even to 1pm, but i pretty much treat lunch the same.

sometimes she puts me in my little crate-den to eat so that i don't have distractions, and that usually works. or she just takes the food away after 15 minutes to save for later, since maybe i'm just not hungry.

she thinks i'm also not used to eating lunch, because at my original family's place, my littermates and i just ate twice a day, breakfast and dinner. in a few months, my mom won't have to worry about feeding me lunch since she read that i should only eat twice a month then.

although i do hem and haw over the dry kibble for dinner, i do eventually eat it -- most of the time. if i eat the dry, i also get a bit of wet wellness puppy food, which is so yummy, i gobble it all up super fast! right now, my mom gives me 1/3 cup of dry food, minus about 1/8 cup which she replaces with 1.5 oz of the wellness wet, or 1/4 of a 6 oz can.

ps. one thing she thought was kinda lame was that the wellness just for puppy dry kibble bag put the instructions for how much to feed me on the very bottom side of the bag -- where she almost missed it! she thinks the company should put it on the backside, like royal canin and many others do, where it is more obvious. she sent wellness a feedback e-mail to let them know. she's funny.