Pookamama
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Pepper just isn't that into her pellets. I asked her owner and specifically got the same exact food she already ate (one size up by accident. She was on Zupreem small-medium and I got medium). I asked her how much to feed a day and she said 1/4 of a cup.
Pepper is obsessed with our people food and we oblige by giving her it. I give her veggies like carrots and spinach, fruits like grapes and apple, and beans, and occasionally an almond (usually I have a kid feed her an almond as a treat). She attacks all of that with gusto-but she's hadly eating any pellets! I put a tablespoon in her bowl inside her cage and a half teaspoon more with her fresh food whenever I feed her that (twice a day) and she never even eats half of her pellets. Furthermore, when it's morning, she will ignore the pellets in her bowl and act super hungry when I'm making the kids breakfast. If it was her main food at her other house, why doesn't she want to eat it when she's actually hungry?
Am I being whacko to be concerned about her preferring fresh food, should I just go with it and try to keep her balanced? Maybe make a birdie mash and mix in the pellets with that?
Pepper is obsessed with our people food and we oblige by giving her it. I give her veggies like carrots and spinach, fruits like grapes and apple, and beans, and occasionally an almond (usually I have a kid feed her an almond as a treat). She attacks all of that with gusto-but she's hadly eating any pellets! I put a tablespoon in her bowl inside her cage and a half teaspoon more with her fresh food whenever I feed her that (twice a day) and she never even eats half of her pellets. Furthermore, when it's morning, she will ignore the pellets in her bowl and act super hungry when I'm making the kids breakfast. If it was her main food at her other house, why doesn't she want to eat it when she's actually hungry?
Am I being whacko to be concerned about her preferring fresh food, should I just go with it and try to keep her balanced? Maybe make a birdie mash and mix in the pellets with that?