Some times Smokey Joe eats the wet food too fast, then regurgitates it back up. I started researching for a way to slow him down. There were a lot of ideas, but it seemed like the easiest one to implement would be a lick mat. (It has grooves designed to hold the wet food. Instead of inhaling it, Kitty has to lick up.)
Instead of immediately heading to the pet store, I figured out we already had something in the house that might work. From the far back of the plastic container cabinet I pulled out a shallow plastic bowl originally designed to hold leftovers. It had ridges to allow air to circulate underneath things when they were reheated in the microwave.
Smokey Joe's portion of wet food covers almost the entire bottom of the container, and it has really slowed him down. His lunch now takes five minutes instead of 30 seconds, and there has been no need to deal with upchuck.
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How clever! Both the concept of a lick mat (which I've never heard of before) and the fact you didn't have to buy one!
ReplyDeleteYou do come up with good ideas. Susie is a nibbled except for the wet food. She mostly likes the gravy. She's going through a " thing" with her meals. Food she used to like, she now won't touch but in a few days, she'll be eating it again.
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