The Katzke Dog Diary

Carey Jones’ article in Serious Eats about corn products in human food and her experiments with cutting them out has applications to your dog’s health, too: Have you ever read the ingredients on your dog’s bag of kibble? You should consider shying away from corn products for your dog for the same reasons that Ms. Jones gives as applied to humans.

And it’s worse for cats: Even if the carbohydrates from wheat and corn filler products aren’t in a sweetener form, much like enzymes in the human mouth convert the starches to sugars, the same thing happens in a cat’s mouth. But cats walk on all fours, and regularly regurgitate the sugar into their mouth. Which rots their teeth. If you’re feeding Science Diet t/d (the dental prescription diet): Go read the ingredients label on the bag. And then smack yourself in the forehead with the heel of your hand, and go buy your cat a bag of Innova Evo.

In my continuing efforts to get Henry to be comfortable when I leave him in the crate, I’ve been feeding him in the crate, playing with him in the crate, and having him sleep in the crate nightly for over a month now with nothing negative associated with it. Slowly, I’ve been going outside while he’s in the crate — to the mailbox, to water the landscaping, to pick veggies in the garden, so on and so forth.

On Saturday morning, I left him in the crate with his breakfast and walked to the end of the block and back.

He didn’t eat breakfast for three days. I can only imagine that it’s because he was afraid that once he started, I’d leave and not come back. *facepalm*