[Dailydrool] Food

[rebecca lando]

Humphrey is 15 months old and I'd guess he weighs between 45-50 lbs (haven't
weighed him in a while, so it's a guesstimate - he's very fit with good
bone/muscle definition so we don't worry about weighing him very often). He
gets two meals a day, each consisting of 1 heaping cup of Eagle Pack's
Holistic Select Duck & Oatmeal. This is supplemented a couple times a week
with whatever veggies I get at the farmer's market: green beans and spinach
in the spring and summer, carrots, squash and pumpkin in fall and winter. A
few times a week he gets about 1/3 of a cup of cooked, preferably sauceless
pulled pork, rib meat (we pull off as much of the fat as possible) or pulled
chicken from the BBQ restaurant on our block, or 1/2 a (boneless, skinless)
roasted chicken breast if the boyfriend slave has Peruvian chicken for
lunch. He gets a few Happy Hips treats a day for his joints (the banana
chips wrapped in chicken breast, supplemented with glucosamine/chondritin)
and as many Old Mother Hubbard treats as they'll give him at daycare.

Humphrey loves the Eagle Pack, but he'd prefer to live off of apple bran
muffins, bananas, BBQ, carrots, and Elvis cupcakes from Crumbs (vanilla
cupcake, banana pudding frosting, peanut butter chips).

Professor Bix, who has advanced pancreatitis, gets 3 meals a day, each
consisting of 2/3 a cup of a dry Iams prescription kibble, 1/3 a cup of wet
Iams prescription food, 1/3 a cup of boiled boneless/skinless chicken
breast, and 2 tablespoons of pancreazymes so he can digest it all. He
sometimes gets one piece of steamed broccoli, which is the only vegetable
he'll deign to eat. He is a very svelte 86-lb, 12 year old St. Bernard/Akita
mix. Ideally, he'd weigh around 100 lbs, but his pancreatitis, old age, and
bad knees keep him thin.

Drool to all who need it.

-Rebecca, Kit, Humphrey, and Professor Bix (who is always hungry)
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