I am trying to adjust my outdoor Russian to eat a larger (eventually all) diet of weeds and safe foods.
It's slow going, right now the only "safe" foods she'll eat from me are cactus and squash leaves and blossoms; she'll eat roses, but I don't think she needs any more flowers. She's having a large time eating desert primroses in the yard right now. (I'm sure that's what I'd choose myself; they smell great).
I've tried finely chopping, mixing in a little of one new food only, grating over cucumber, tossing everything in cucumber juice and cactus mash. "NO THANKS," she says, and that's when she's being polite!
Her purchased foods have included turnip greens, dandelions, collards, cress, okra, and various chicories. She's been getting less of these over the last month but it hasn't improved her appetite for weeds.
I have tried a large variety of weeds and safe foods. Occasionally she'll eat thistles. She's sampled a little bindweed; "I only like the kind with the pink flowers, lady!" She won't eat "regular" weedy dandelions.
Her weight gain has slowed but not stopped; she's active and healthy.
She's going to adjust...eventually, right? The vet said she'd be less choosy as the weather gets hotter.
It's slow going, right now the only "safe" foods she'll eat from me are cactus and squash leaves and blossoms; she'll eat roses, but I don't think she needs any more flowers. She's having a large time eating desert primroses in the yard right now. (I'm sure that's what I'd choose myself; they smell great).
I've tried finely chopping, mixing in a little of one new food only, grating over cucumber, tossing everything in cucumber juice and cactus mash. "NO THANKS," she says, and that's when she's being polite!
Her purchased foods have included turnip greens, dandelions, collards, cress, okra, and various chicories. She's been getting less of these over the last month but it hasn't improved her appetite for weeds.
I have tried a large variety of weeds and safe foods. Occasionally she'll eat thistles. She's sampled a little bindweed; "I only like the kind with the pink flowers, lady!" She won't eat "regular" weedy dandelions.
Her weight gain has slowed but not stopped; she's active and healthy.
She's going to adjust...eventually, right? The vet said she'd be less choosy as the weather gets hotter.
