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Got a wide variety of gravy and broth heavy gushy fud selections between Petsmart and Pet Supplies Plus yesterday. Petsmart yielded Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers flavors I've not yet tried with Lars just yet (beefy ones) and some of the "classic" line of broth based packets of food they offer in fishy and chickeny flavors. Pet Supplies Plus had the Halo brand, which came highly recommended by a good cat owning friend, so I picked up some cans of Spot's Stew in a couple of different flavors, largely because the Stew part of the name seems to infer that it'll have a stew/gravy like quality to it...
Tried the Turkey flavor of Spot's Stew this morning and was surprised to find the consistency of the bulk of it was like a very thick gravy to a thin pate'. :/ Additionally, it came complete with a complement of vegetable matter mixed in with the gravy and meaty pieces as well, which I'd read on the ingredients on the can, but somehow pictured they'd be diced smaller or something. Lars isn't known to prefer pate' type food, and he's never had food with veg in it before, so I was sorta wary of giving it to him, but I figured since I opened the can and didn't want to just throw it away without giving it a good go, I mixed in the probiotics and the benefiber and set the bowl of the stuff down in front of him...
He absolutely shocked me by totally scarfing that stuff down like a mad man! :) He snarfed down the gravy/pate' and meat and even some of the smaller veggie bits and ate the gravy/pate' off the bigger veggie pieces that he left behind! It was a sight to behold! I haven't seen that sort of enthusiasm for gushy fud in at least a few weeks! It was a miracle!
Tonight for his dinner I served up more of the same; he didn't quite have the same enthusiasm but he still ate with pretty good gusto despite there being more and larger veggie bits in with this particular batch of chow. He, again, ate all the gravy/pate' and meaty bits for the most part. There were more leavings tonight, but I think that had more to do with the extra veg getting in the way than any problem with the bulk of the gravy/pate' medication vehicle.
He'll get the rest of the turkey can tomorrow morning. Hopefully his enthusiasm for it won't wane at all with the repetition. Next up after this can will be one of the brothy packets. Will keep you posted on how things go!
Tried the Turkey flavor of Spot's Stew this morning and was surprised to find the consistency of the bulk of it was like a very thick gravy to a thin pate'. :/ Additionally, it came complete with a complement of vegetable matter mixed in with the gravy and meaty pieces as well, which I'd read on the ingredients on the can, but somehow pictured they'd be diced smaller or something. Lars isn't known to prefer pate' type food, and he's never had food with veg in it before, so I was sorta wary of giving it to him, but I figured since I opened the can and didn't want to just throw it away without giving it a good go, I mixed in the probiotics and the benefiber and set the bowl of the stuff down in front of him...
He absolutely shocked me by totally scarfing that stuff down like a mad man! :) He snarfed down the gravy/pate' and meat and even some of the smaller veggie bits and ate the gravy/pate' off the bigger veggie pieces that he left behind! It was a sight to behold! I haven't seen that sort of enthusiasm for gushy fud in at least a few weeks! It was a miracle!
Tonight for his dinner I served up more of the same; he didn't quite have the same enthusiasm but he still ate with pretty good gusto despite there being more and larger veggie bits in with this particular batch of chow. He, again, ate all the gravy/pate' and meaty bits for the most part. There were more leavings tonight, but I think that had more to do with the extra veg getting in the way than any problem with the bulk of the gravy/pate' medication vehicle.
He'll get the rest of the turkey can tomorrow morning. Hopefully his enthusiasm for it won't wane at all with the repetition. Next up after this can will be one of the brothy packets. Will keep you posted on how things go!
