Well, the thread is all out of date order now; if you're new to it, it starts with my post of 06 Sep 04 - 09:56 AM. Click printer-friendly up top to sort it out.

Anyhoo, it's been on again-off again with Faulkner's eating habits. For awhile I was quite the short-order chef. He'd eat for a day or so and then knock it off again, and I ain't THAT bad a cook. He's gotten very thin again since I found a safe place I can let him run free outdoors for the amount of exercise and exploring he needs.

Today saw one more effort to get him to eat regularly, and by God, I may actually HAVE it this time. When he plays with Ruby, he can never seem to hang onto a rope for more than a small tug-- jaws congenitally a bit out of alignment.

Well, so I wondered if the big meal every three days is about not wanting to chew up all the kibbles, even wet kibbles. He likes to lap up the meat juice ANY time though. I wish I could put him on wet canned food.... I just can't lug all the cans home to put him on canned meat, never mind the cost and the long trip to the store with today's gas prices.

So what I did was, I ground up his Gravy Train and THEN added the water, to make a slurry (not unlike fresh cat-barf in texture which he LOVES; you know, when they eat too fast and toss it back up?). He's lapped up about three servings of it since about 4 PM and has eaten more since then than he ate most of this week! Hell, I can make THAT a week at a time and spoon it out. Hell, I'd even nuke it for him just to see him hold a healthy weight AND get his exercise in.

He's sleeping now like a sated snake.

~Susan