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What can I teach you ask? Well lots for sure but my most recent accomplishment was teaching Nico how to eat!
My technique is to teach by example. I think that is the best way to train little ones! For months now the Squirt has gotten to watch Mom make me a variety of dishes, hand feed me and cater to my every whim!
I actually do have favorite foods. Vital and My Perfect Pet are really good. Most days I will eat them without any hassle at all. I especially like it when Mom sprinkles them with a variety of toppings!
Of course, I like kibble too. Keep in mind that the kibble has to be the right one depending on my mood. Sometimes I eat Taste of the Wild, other times it is some Farm Stand mix that tastes yummy. Sometimes I like it plain. Sometimes I like it mixed with canned food. Then of course there are days I just don't like it at all!
I need to pass on my lessons about food to the Squirt....slowly, so Mom doesn't see what I'm doing. The purpose you ask? To drive Mom nuts! It is great fun! I do it with love though. It is our special time, Mom and me! I tried to teach the Cavaliers but they are not into playing with their food. Clarice especially says that you should never play with your food...boring!
The key to keeping dinner time interesting is easy. Just when you get Mom to think she has found the secret to my eating...I change it! Now in my defense...do you eat the same thing day in and day out. I bet not! Why should I! I'm not a cavalier! They get a bowl put in front of them...they eat! Now Mom does give them some variety. She says they deserve it!
The fun comes with Mom trying to read my mind. Since I'm a woman...I do keep changing it! Despite what Mom says, she is not a mind reader!
Now the Squirt has been watching me eat a little meatball one at a time, placed just on the right spot on the floor or the bed. And please, it has to be just the right size...not too big, not too small. The kibble has to be surrounded with just the right amount of canned food. A little canned food holding two or three pieces of kibble together...perfect! That is lesson number one!! Watch and learn!
Lesson number two: How to get the variety pack! One day you love kibble, the next you love something else. It really doesn't matter much...just as long as each day you want something different! Take last night for instance. I ate rather well. I believe I had My Perfect Pet Hunter's Blend with Stella and Chewy freeze dried meal crumbled on top. Yummy! This morning Mom tried the same meal...she is a slow learner! I turned my nose up at it! Let's see – try some kibble mixed with canned food, will you! No, No – make that kibble with scrambled egg! NO WAIT! How about Hunter's Blend with scrambled egg!
It has taken months of trial and error...but I believe I have found just the balance to get Mom to put at least three different kinds of food in front of me.
She tells me: “Pick one...PLEASE just pick one!!” LOVE IT!!
Part of Lesson Two: You have to look pathetic. Look hungry. Lick a little than turn away like it smells bad or something. Make her think you really want to eat – just not what is in front of you. Obviously, she did something wrong making the food.
Lesson Three: Fingers! OH YES! Fingers are the best! If you learn this lesson well, you can get Mom to sit on the floor and hand feed you. If you get really good at it...you can make her follow you around to several spots on the floor. Be careful, there is a delicate balance here...if you over do it...Mom gets frustrated and stops! Then you have to go hungry until dinner! Usually those are the days that I just am so down right hungry by dinner I put my head in the bowl and eat whatever is in it! No fooling around. Now you may think I lost on these days...but I do get Mom to feel really bad and worry most of the day until dinner time. You would think that she would learn...starve me and I will eat. How many years has she been doing this!?! Talk about being a slow learner!
Nico, for a boy, is a fast learner. As much as I would hate to admit this...he took it one step further than me even! He has gotten our Mother to hold the food over his bowl about an inch before he will eat it. She gets her fingers too close to the bowl and he backs off...Way to go Squirt!
Hey, Gigi – you do realize you are telling me your food secrets right?
Yes.
And so now I should just take the food away from you when you don't eat because you will eat at dinner time, right?
I know you too well Mom...you don't have it in you!
This is my life. My name is Gigi.
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Yes.
And so now I should just take the food away from you when you don't eat because you will eat at dinner time, right?
I know you too well Mom...you don't have it in you!
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