Originally Posted by
scoobysnack
Ok... thought about it and decided to add this.
I just went and looked at the "Healthy Diet".
Honestly... Scooby should be dead by now. This might cause a huge issue here and I don't mean to I really don't.
That diet is daunting to me. It's a lot to follow. If feeding horses was that complicated I'd have put a gun to my head a long time ago.
I guess I'm just kinda Forest Gump-ing my way through this squirrel thing. I feed Scooby ONCE a day. She gets a plate full of her vegies, fruits and her rodent block/primate chow (yes I can hear the collective gasps now). Until recently she didn't even get the rodent block!! Turns out she likes the Harlan Teklad so she's getting it now.
She gets two of those and two primate chow blocks quartered, then a variety of fruits, vegies, leafy greens a bit of mushroom, some sesame seeds on her avocado. There's even sweet potato and carrot (way more than a tablespoon a month for sure).
She is in amazing good health. Active, happy, no neurotic behavior. Great coat (you all have seen the photos).
Here's what I do though. I'm a mean mean mommy. She gets her plate of food in the am (or whenever sometimes later) and that's IT. She gets nothing until the next day. AND ... if she has left over block on the plate it stays until she eats that. NO OTHER FOOD... *gasp at the cruelty go ahead*. I did this with my child too. Eat what's good or you don't get the fun stuff. Now she can eat the fun stuff first but she has to eat the good stuff before more fun stuff is added. Ohh and ONE or two nuts in a day. Max. In fact until recently she wasn't even getting them every day. Thinking about it now, I may have to change the thread to Scoobys Nut of the week. I'm worried that I changed that and it could all go wrong!!
I'm feeding a variety, well balanced, and in realistic amounts (I don't pile the plate a mile high). Everyone wants to know why she's not obese, why her coat shines, why she seems so healthy. I figure that's why.
I'm very reluctant to fix what ain't broke here.
Edited to add... I wrote this post to immediately follow my other post and then walked outside to do chores. It hadn't posted yet. This isn't a response to you 4Skwerlz it's just an addition to my last post. If that makes sense.