White Dog is reserving judgment. She and Steve reviewed the ingredients for the Satin Balls recipe; a meal designed by rescuers and show dog professionals to maximize weight gain and muscle development. Now that Our Girl has completed her PRP Therapy (for now) the task at hand is to get her eating more and encouraging muscle mass. This high-calorie, high-fat mixture is planned to supplement her continued baby food, heavy cream, ensure+ slurry.
In reviewing our idea with Dr. Julia and several expert friends, they agreed with our discomfort in feeding our compromised girl raw...so we are going to use the recipe but bake the balls before we freeze them for future use.
The recipe calls for ground beef. Eskies are prone to pancreatitis and White Dog has a pancreatic cyst; beef is something we avoid for ALL of the White Dog Army. Pancreatitis is not fun for a pup... or for the human who must deal with a sick dog. For our trial run we are going to substitute ground lamb; still rich and marbled but with less of a hit to the pancreas. We will try ground beef or a mix if the lamb itself, which is a WD favorite, fails to entice.
The little meatballs attracted attention before they came out of the oven; once they were on the rack cooling Steve had to close and lock the gate to the kitchen lest samples promised for afternoon treat time get "disappeared" before then.
The chef took White Dog the first taste. Will she like it? Will she like it enough to make it a regular part of her diet? Will she turn her nose away with a look of incredulous disdain?
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