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Tasty Thursday: Wysong Dream Treats

Our friends at Chewy.com offered us the opportunity to review Dream Treats from Wysong, and we never say no to trying treats!

These treats have no starches, and are made from 95% raw quail meat using their proprietary no-heat manufacturing process. We aren’t sure how you can make something like this without heat, but we like the idea of them being species-appropriate.

We were surprised to see how large they were when we opened them. These are for dogs, cats, or ferrets, so they must have decided to go with dog size. When we looked down into the bag, they were big disks instead of regular cat-sized treats. (What, you don’t gaze down into your cat treat bags?)

Well, let’s just get a better look at one of these disks.

Ashton: Mine!

Pierre: How rude.

This might be the point at which the review went off the rails a little bit. Ashton growled and made off with her stolen treat, with Pierre and Newton in anxious pursuit.

Ashton: Mine!

Some of the oversized freeze-dried treats we have tried in the past would have been choking hazards at this size, but the Wysong treat disks break fairly easy. Ashton managed to snap hers roughly in half and leave some behind as a decoy.

Pierre: *sighs* I don’t understand why her poor manners get rewarded like this. I was good, and I’m getting leftovers.

Ashton: Mine!

Newton: Hey, Ashton! Whatcha got? Pierre had some. Can I have some, too?

Ashton: Mine!

The disks are easy to crumble into more reasonable cat bite-sized pieces.

Newton: It’s about time!

Ashton: Hey, that’s–

Newton: Yeah, we know, Ash. Mine!

As you can see, these were a huge hit. All three cats loved them, especially Ashton. The only drawback to them is that they aren’t bite-sized, and they crumble into a bit of a powdery mess when you break them up. This isn’t a deal-breaker, but they aren’t the kind of thing you can keep on hand in a canister for immediate sharing. But other than that, they’re great, tasty treats, and we give them six paws up!

FTC Disclosure: We received these treats for free from Chewy.com, but our opinions are our own.

Ashton’s Update

Ashton: When I least expected it, the head peep grabbed me and put me on the floor. Then Aunt Orvis helped hold me upside down so they could examine my tummy. I sang a song of my people in embarrassment.

Then the head peep said that my tummy looked much better. I could have told you that! I bathe my tummy all the time, and I know exactly what it looks like. It looks NOT FOR YOUR EYES, peeps! There’s no privacy around here at all.

The good news is that this means I don’t have to go to the vet or have any more medicine. I’m very thankful for that. And I’m also thankful for all of your purrs and good wishes while we didn’t know what was wrong with me. We still don’t, though we think maybe I was bitten by a spider. Either way, I am mostly better now.

What do you mean, you may want to look again in another week, just to be sure? I’m going to be under the bed that week, sorry.

Easy like Cat Bed Sunday

Ashton: I love this cat bed. We never had cat beds that we used before last holiday season, but this is the best seat in the house!

I heard a rumor that the head peep wanted to look at my tummy today, so I’m staying right here. My tummy is not for public view!

Ashton finished her antibiotics on Wednesday, and we haven’t had the right mix of people in the house to try to turn her over and take a look at her tummy since then. It is a multi-person job, and she is deathly afraid of the manpeep, which means we have to wait for Aunt Orvis to lend a helping hand. Hopefully tonight we’ll be able to see some progress against her mystery skin ailment so that she’ll be excused from another trip back to the vet.