Just a few of the things Alli has decided to eat today....

Fish Meal, Corn Flour, Wheat Flour, Soy Flour, Oat Meal, Squid Meal, Fish Liver Meal (mmmm!), Wheat Gluten Meal, Squid Liver Meal (double mmmm!), Fish Oil, Dried Yeast, Shrimp Meal (and many more!)

and, of course, my personal favorite...

Pre-Digested Plankton, fresh from the ocean, rich in pigment and prepared using a patented bio-process!

i'm sure that the lovely people at the Illinois Poison Center (which i happened to notice from their website is located about a block from my office) get odder phone calls, but i still couldn't shake the feeling that they're going to be staring out the window and laughing at me as i walk past their building tomorrow on my way to work...

the good news is that the only real problem we could expect is some diarrhea...which, i'm expecting to be rich in pigment and prepared using alli's very own bio-process! they suggested having her drink a decent amount of water in order to dilute the flakes in her stomach...which got me thinking...why wait for digestion and the possible ensuing results of her bio-processing, when i could attack the problem sooner? and then that whole vegetarian mindset got the better of me again and i decided not to scoop out one her goldfish and have her swallow it whole so that it could eat the food before alli bio-processed it figuring, of course, that she'd have an easier time digesting a fish than the flakes....

in the end, though, my 'vegetarian mindset' got the better of me and i just put her down again for her nap and let the fish live for a while...or at least until alli decides to try sushi in her room during nap time....