Home-Cook Diet for Rossi Gal

For the sake of Rossi gal's health, I have recently switched her to a full home-cook diet. Actually, the home-cook plan has been on the back of my mind for quite a while after reading about the benefits of home made meals. Rossi gal has a sensitive skin condition,which I truly believe, will see significant improvements with a nutritious home-cook diet. In this way, I can also control the quality and type of ingredients to be used in making her meals. (*There was an incident whereby I found tons of wriggly worms in one of her brand new pack of kibbles from a reputable company. Initially, I thought of the possibility of expiry, but the pack's expiry date was dated in year 2011. Gosh!)

The switch was gradual. It began with some occasional boiled veggie treats, followed by some canned tuna in spring water. When she ate the canned tuna, she started a bout of diarrhea that lasted more than 2 weeks. During this time, I gave her only boiled pumpkin, hard boiled eggs and oatmeal. I nearly brought her to the vet and had already fixed the appointment. Then just before her appointment, she got well. (Hubby and I do think it could also be a Detox process, as she had started taking LingZhi pills daily at that time and also,her activeness and appetite were both unaffected.)

As there were still leftover kibbles and Raw Dehydrated food from her Dry food diet, I decide to let her finish up before I go full-flegde into Home-Cook. At the same time, I continued to do my research online and from books on home-cook diet. Since last year, I had been reading up quite abit on home-cook meals as much research is required to make the meals as wholesome as possible. I let Rossi gal finish up her kibbles first, then I transit her to full homecook by mixing it with the Raw Dehydrated.

Till date, she has been having homecook meals for a little over a month. A few marked improvements I see include, lesser hotspots, faster healing of existing hotspots,lesser scratching, higher than before energy level and most of all, she seems much happier than before, always smiling before and after meals. She enjoys her food so much more!

As compared to a dry food diet, home-cook meals require more time and effort on my part. But seeing her so happy with her new diet and for the sake of her health, its worth my effort cooking for her.

Weeks back, she was having a limp in her right leg, which somehow resolved itself after a week or so.Vet diagnosis for the limp was a sprain, but there was another underlying condition in her right leg known as "Luxating Patella", a genetic condition. This condition requires careful attention, as it could develop into Athritis and require surgery if not well cared for.

With Rossi gal's existing condition, I believe that a home-cook diet would be the best for her now. I set out to find out the types of natural foods that contained the required properties which can help improve her condition and incorporate them into her diet. This is something that a commercial diet can never do.

I really want Rossi gal to live a long, happy and healthy life with me and I firmly believe only a nutritious diet can help achieve this.

My Cutesy Home Bakery-Muffins and Biscuits!

Bakery Update:

In the 365 days of a Year, long weekends are so rare. Most of our time is dedicated to work, work and more work, be it at office or home. (Office - Work to Live, Home - Work to Clean.) If I'm not working, the rest of my time is for Rossi gal. Not much time for other stuff...

Then Finally, the much anticipated long weekend is here. Yes, its the Good Friday long weekend. I decide to make use of this time to do what I have been wanting to do, but couldnt find the time to do so and that is...Bake some goodies for Rossi gal and her cutesy buddies, Mocha & Cheezels! Yeah!

Here's it goes! Yum Yum!

 Pumpkin Muffins

(Made with Organic Japanese Pumpkin and Organic Light Cheddar Cheese)

Banana Oatmeal Muffins

(Packed with the goodness of Bananas and Organic Rolled Oats)

Banana Carob Biscuits

In Heart, Car and Fish Shapes

(Baked with Bananas, Organic Rolled Oats and Toasted Carob Powder,a healthy cocoa substitute)

More Biscuits in Star, Bear and Doggy Shapes

Big-Sized Biscuits in Butterfly and Doggy-Bone Shapes

No doubt baking requires much time and effort, but the knowledge that the babies are eating healthy snacks really motivates me to bake more. I feel the joy in baking when I know they enjoy the snacks too. 

Bon Appetti Babies! 

Ramblings..Ramblings...More Ramblings...

I haven't done any update since Rossi Gal's 1st Birthday update. The naughty gal had been making me very busy, but because I love her so much, I am a willing party. It was, in fact,the "stabbings" that I suffered at my workplace that really riled me to the bone and also inadvertently affected my blogging mood.


My office consists of 99% male and I am that "fortunate" 1% female. The workforce is a mere 10 person (including my boss). So, the question is, with such a small workforce (which also means a 'peanut office') and being the only rose among the thorns, why am I having such a bad time? I should be enjoying the so-called "privileges" in being the only female here. But NO! This is not the case.


The males in my office are "Puss-In-Boots" who exhibit traits that are exclusive to women, like gossiping, pettiness and throwing tantrums. Then when workload gets a little bit heavier and a little more stressful or when they feel "neglected" by the boss or when they feel unhappy with a fellow colleague, they forget themselves and transform into a puss. They just can't help it! Grow Up! Live life like a real Man and not some Sissy Puss! Men behaving like a Puss in a Male-Dominated environment is Downright Repulsive, Detestable and Shameless! (And in my opinion, these words are not adequate enough to describe how they really are!)


It doesn't help that some self-righteous fool in a virtual reality preaches on invasion and loathing towards imperfect humans who abhor and dispute about the anguish in the harsh reality! Some Pharisee who deems to live in a fairy-tale perfect world. Arise! Do not see only what one wants to see and hear only what one wants to hear. (And Watch it! Steer Clear of my Territory!)


True Reality is neither Cinderella nor Snow-White's Happily Ever After Forever and Ever. The real world is encased with traps and temptations in various forms. Some appear so subtle that one could not even sense or suspect the underlying peril. It is a place where one could turn against another at any one time, no matter how closely knitted the relations  supposedly seem.


To me, the only one who will never turn against me is my One and Only Purest of Heart, Rossi Gal, Truly.


Below Pictures show the different faces of my Purest Angel...She is my Only Sweetest True Love and very Epitome of Virtue. She gives me renewed hope in this menacing world.


Thus, with her lovely, angelical pictures, my pen stops here and I continue my rigorous trek up on the treacherous mountains of this world...

                                                     

Rossi gal is 1 Year Old !

Rossi is officially 1 Year Old  Today. Looking back at the times when she was still tiny furball when she first came to me, now she is already a big gal. I do feel a little older seeing her grown up like this.

Yesterday, we held a mini birthday celebration for her with her furry buddies, Mocha and Cheezels, as well as their daddy and mummy, David and Shanice.

Sharing some photos below:

I specially baked her a birthday cake, some muffins and biscuits(daddy helped with the biscuits), for her mini party.

   Rossi gal posing for the camera.

 Cake, muffins and biscuits for Rossi and her buddies.

 Rossi and her cutesy buddies, Cheezels and Mocha munching on the birthday snacks.