Science in action

Yesterday was a sleepy day for Duncan. Megan and I took him for a walk in Nelson park in the afternoon, and he watched the kids at PJ playing at recess. Today, though, he was feeling more energetic so we went to Paletta to see the ducks. No luck! It was the first time that I have ever seen the creek at Paletta duckless. There were a few on the lake, but we pretty much had to settle for interesting smells.

The other half of today's outing was a quest for more dog food. He had been eating Nutro puppy food, a fairly good brand, at the breeder. But the supply that came with him is nearly gone. I had changed him over to Acana, which is an excellent Canadian-made food. Its only drawback is that Duncan doesn't like it. So we went to the Global store thinking we'd better pick up some more Nutro. After all, a guy needs comfort food when he's under the weather. Unfortunately, they didn't have any of the Nutro puppy food in stock, but there was a very nice young woman working there who gave him lots of sympathy and suggested we try a sample package of a brand I'd never heard of - Precise Holistic Complete. So we picked it up, and Duncan conducted his first Official Science Experiment - a blind taste test. Here's the sample plate - Nutro at 10 o'clock, Acana at 6, Precise at 2.

Scientist in action

And the winner is - Precise. Duncan is a very systematic eater. He gobbled down all the Precise, then moved to the Nutro. He ate nearly all of that, and completely ignored the Acana. I even replenished the Nutro and repositioned the plate. Nope. Dad has gone off to buy more, along with some Nutro to phase it in with.

Science has spoken.