Haha…if only Gerald could be “trained”!
Anyway, I’m hoping to train Gerald to eat some Coco&Joe’s and Cubgrub (for convenience, I’ll call this processed raw food) so that his meals are more balanced. Otherwise, he’s mostly on raw chicken gizzards and breast meat.
But with Gerald, you can get it terribly wrong. Sometimes, he will gobble up the processed raw food. Sometimes, the moment I add the processed raw food, he stops eating and walks off. Then, he will yowl till no end. And I can almost hear him saying, “I didn’t want the Coco&Joe’s and Cubgrub today, but you added it in and I’m not happy so I refuse to eat my food and now I’m hungry and it’s all your fault!!”
Try pacifying him by quickly removing the processed raw food or even giving him a clean bowl of his gizzards and he would still refuse to eat because “I’m already angry that you failed to read my mind, so I’m punishing you now. Hear my yowl and yowl and yowl and yowl now….”
And that’s what happened this evening. Now, he is yowling till no end.
There’s nothing I can do about it or to pacify him even if the intention is just to stop him from disturbing everyone.
Creamy, on the other hand, is so in touch with his primal instincts and he knows what foods are biologically appropriate for him. He’s easy and a pleasure to feed.
The Blondies, now they are on the other polar opposite. They are totally out of whack with their primal instincts. One wonders why…is it because they were born in the house? Brought up on raw food since they were young and yet, so out of whack. They are in touch with Nature too because they have a garden where there is grass, soil, rocks, sand and sunshine. And they do hunt cockroaches too.
The Monsters were also born in the house, brought up on raw food, but they lived in the catio, roughly the same environment as the Blondies. They are in touch with their primal instincts and know what food is good for them.
Conclusion: The Blondies’ primal instincts are out of whack.
Well, many humans are also out of whack with their primal instincts when it comes to food. They go for junk food when it is so unhealthy for them!