Mon, 09 Feb 2026

Single Blind

Panzer is not really food focused.

While Sarah was in New York late last month, she talked with some of the pet professionals in that orbit of friends and came home with a recommendation for a different cat food.

Panzer did not seem to immediately take to the new food. So we conducted an experiment. Realizing he can’t read, we didn’t need to hide the labels :)

flavor	ounces eaten
beef *	1.3
turkey *	1.2
chicken *	0.65
chicken in broth	0.3
chicken salmon	0.15
tuna mackeral	0.0

So now we know. Well… we know what he preferred for the two meals when we tested three flavors. He does seem to shift his preferences around over time. But we have no strong evidence to shift the food we buy: the top three (with *) are all the Fancy Feast we’ve been feeding him all his life — which could influence the results.

Doting pet parent? Maybe!

3 comments

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SZapolsky wrote

Panzer likes what he likes I guess.

Robert wrote

To account for familiarity why not test the three new only and then the three he's used to, then compare the highest ranked new with the lowest ranked old, I wonder if that would show anything

David wrote

hmmm.....
While I'm retired, I do have things I'd rather do than further bother Panzer with tests on what food he really likes :) But your suggestion is a good one, should we really need to know more.

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