Fine Dining

We started Nero with a Cerelac (baby food) with warm water mixture. 3-4 days into the week and we felt he was looking thin. So we called the Vet and she recommended Complan, though she did say it makes them put on weight fast. Nero's previous owner also called up to check what he was doing and suggested we start him on vegetables as soon as possible along with dalia (porridge). We also discovered that he likes Marie biscuits, we used to soak them first, but he's started eating them solid too!

At the moment Nero eats,

• Breakfast (8-9am): Complan/Cerelac mixed in lukewarm water with soggy Marie biscuit pieces
• Lunch(1-2pm): Complan/Cerelac mix, boiled dalia with vegetables (small pieces of cabbage, carrots and tomatoes) all made into a stew-like mix at room temperature
• Tea(5:30-6:30pm): Same as breakfast with a little bit of boiled dalia with vegetables to get him used to the taste. Sometimes followed up with a solid Marie biscuit or two
• Dinner(8:30-9:30pm): Same as lunch

* We tried to add small pieces of soft home-made cottage cheese into the dalia-vegetable mix today. So far he hasnt complained.

We've discovered

• He is hungriest at breakfast and least hungry for dinner
• He doesnt really like dalia with vegetables unless he is hungry
• He tends to waste dalia and vegetable in tea and dinner

Thus, we're planning to shuffle things a bit and make breakfast a fuller meal and dinner a lighter meal. We've also been advised by his earlier owner to give him some curd for lunch. But no milk
as per the vet, as it would give him diarrhoea.

He surprised us by lapping on the very first day. We thought we would be feeding him! He's well on his way to solid foods but that will wait till the vet's go-ahead!