OutlawedSpirit
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- Apr 12, 2016
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So Aria definitely loves her pellets, since that was what she was primarily eating when I brought her home. I have been offering her a chopped mix, that she seems okay with for the most part, although she prefers pellets.
I have been trying to get her to go more for the fresh stuff she should be eating, but I don't want to completely cut down her pellets, because I don't feel she is eating the fresh stuff well enough to be getting all her nutrients from it yet.
I do limit how much pellet she gets. I give her approx. 1/8 to 1/4 cup of pellets a day, and once that's gone, she is out of luck until the next day. I put her veg chop in first thing in the morning, and add a fresh fruit or two to it, depending on what we have in the house. I have even tried to make her pellets a little harder to get to, I added some large cleaned and sanitized river rocks to her pellet bowl, so she has to "find" her pellets. I figure it makes her work for them if she really wants them, and it gives her something to do.
I wonder, though, if I would be better off taking the separate pellet cup out of her cage, and just mixing the pellets in with her chop. I just don't know if it would encourage her to eat more of the chop, or if she would just pick the pellets out anyway. The only thing I like about having the pellets in a separate cup, is that if she doesn't eat all of them, they don't have to be thrown away at night like they would be if they were in with her fresh food.
I have been trying to get her to go more for the fresh stuff she should be eating, but I don't want to completely cut down her pellets, because I don't feel she is eating the fresh stuff well enough to be getting all her nutrients from it yet.
I do limit how much pellet she gets. I give her approx. 1/8 to 1/4 cup of pellets a day, and once that's gone, she is out of luck until the next day. I put her veg chop in first thing in the morning, and add a fresh fruit or two to it, depending on what we have in the house. I have even tried to make her pellets a little harder to get to, I added some large cleaned and sanitized river rocks to her pellet bowl, so she has to "find" her pellets. I figure it makes her work for them if she really wants them, and it gives her something to do.
I wonder, though, if I would be better off taking the separate pellet cup out of her cage, and just mixing the pellets in with her chop. I just don't know if it would encourage her to eat more of the chop, or if she would just pick the pellets out anyway. The only thing I like about having the pellets in a separate cup, is that if she doesn't eat all of them, they don't have to be thrown away at night like they would be if they were in with her fresh food.