Meet Maynard.
One of the most picky-finnicky eaters I have ever had the pleasure to own and breed. Maynard doesn't like any type of food more than once. He will take 8 hours to eat one meal. He fasts for 3 days then eats a bit then fasts again especially if he knows the shows are coming up. He has been on 3 different kinds of kibble in his 2 years of life. I have cooked for him, given different canned foods, mixed cheese into his food, sprinkled Romano cheese on his food, made him eggs, given him table scraps added energel and anything else you could think of to get him to eat. I've also put his food down for 20 minutes then taken it away and given it back to him at dinner - he just sits there and looks at you as if to say - "yea I know that was breakfast - you think I'm going to eat it now your nuts" then he'll lay down and stare at you.
I met the folks who own Stella and Chewy's at the Atlantic City Pet Supply Trade Show. I spoke with them for a while and took away some samples and the literature about the food. Then I bought some - since I won't sell anything I don't try on my own dogs first, I figured Maynard would be a prime candidate to try this food on.
Well much to my surprise and GREAT pleasure - Mr Maynard has eaten for the past 5 days (experiment started on Friday, April 29, 2005 - it is now Wednesday, May 3, and Maynard has eaten every meal we have given him with the dried beef patties in it.
If this isn't a testimonial to a great product I don't know what is.
I will update this experiment over the next few weeks to ensure it's validity.