Hey everyone,
Keanu has been growing up AMAZING!! He LOVES playing, we’ve gotten over pretty much all his food-aggression, and he’s all-around a very happy good-boy! He’s still a bit clumsy, but much better than he was growing up-jumping from place to place he’ll often have trouble and I’ll occasionally have to “rescue” him from places he’ll get himself into. He’s a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to what he sees out his window or moving objects in the house (ceiling fan is a NO, but a regular dyson he’ll love to just lay in front of the wind stream) and he now sees himself as my sole protector. Odd thing about him is he will come into the shower with me! Sometimes run under the water too *♀️ But he will groom my hair in the shower or just have me hold and love him then go sit at the top and keep watch. He will start barking if there’s any movement outside or if someone tries to come in, he will run to the door in attack-mode. I’ve got myself the best little companion/body guard and I love him to bits, I just want to make sure I’m doing the best I can for him diet-wise!
Here’s his full diet:
• 1-2 nuts per day (strictly limited to 1-2): roasted peanuts, walnuts, pecans, pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds
• 2 Henry’s Healthy Blocks a day (he LOVES these now and will not waste a bit...but he will inspect me and the bowl to make sure he has 2 before I leave the room)
• 2 small pieces of fruit a day (not per each, I’m just listing what he likes): strawberries, pineapple, mango, papaya, star fruit, peach, plum, nectarine
• Lots of lettuce, watercress, arugula (he LOVES big leafy pieces, but sometimes he’ll throw them around his food bowl like an eating mat)
• 1 small piece of avocado (half-slice, he will chat with me if he doesn’t get avocado, but I know it’s not /that/ good for him)
• A few veggies: broccoli, green beans, carrot
• 1-3 occasional sugar snap peas
• 1 Brussels sprout (I omit when he doesn’t eat the day before and resume the next day; he loves these)
• 1/2 - 1 Moe’s Chip (corn chips like chili’s). These are his favorite, there is nothing more he loves than chips from Moe’s (I do my best to remove what salt I can before feeding but they rarely salt them well at our Moe’s)
• Occasional dried veggie crisp: sweet potato, okra, tomato (I try not to give him these, but sometimes he’ll go in the bag and take one , but not often), cauliflower, potato
• Occasional oat milk (~15-20mL) thats warmed (he used to steal my chai lattes so I make him his own milk treats on those days, maybe 1-2 days a month but if it’s good for him, I’d love to make it more often).
I have sooo many more but here’s the obligatory photo dump of the last 2 months of his life (laser was only a one-time thing, we as humans were curious what he’d think and he actually was very interested in the mechanism and tried to turn it on himself!)
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