{"id":115,"date":"2007-06-11T17:47:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stellaandcupcake.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-12-05T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T07:05:36","slug":"meal-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Meal Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Stella\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite time of day besides when being rewarded with treat(s). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve kept her on Merrick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for several months now and she has responded well to it- no abnormal sensitivities or constipation. Her favorites are their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wingalings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smothered Comfort.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I was really surprised to see actual pieces of chicken e.g. chicken wing in the can!<\/p>\n<p>Neo&#8217;s favorite is Merrick&#8217;s Grammys&#8217; Pot Pie (canned food with the quality of people food) mixed with his favorite dry food.  His coat feels and looks wonderful and he has maintained healthy weight ever since I started him on it.<\/p>\n<p>I used to lug these groceries home so their free shipping is of course greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n<p>Calvin loves his IAMs (nothing else will do for him).  He is not allowed to free-feed on kibbles anymore, as was advised by his vet.  He was 21 lbs. when we met in 2001.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-115 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?attachment_id=146'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/merrick-can-smothered-comfort.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?attachment_id=143'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/merrick-can-wingalings.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?attachment_id=147'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/merrick-grammys-pot-pie-for-cats.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?attachment_id=144'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hills-science-diet-feline-oral-care-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hills-science-diet-feline-oral-care-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hills-science-diet-feline-oral-care.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?attachment_id=145'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/iams-for-cats-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/iams-for-cats-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/iams-for-cats-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/iams-for-cats.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Stella\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite time of day besides when being rewarded with treat(s). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve kept her on Merrick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for several months now and she has responded well to it- no abnormal sensitivities or constipation. Her favorites are their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wingalings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smothered Comfort.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I was really surprised to see actual pieces of chicken e.g. chicken wing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/?p=115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meal Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,3],"tags":[178,19,16,15,21,14,18,17,176,174,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellaandcupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}