Thanks for your interest in participating in Palate Pro pet food trials. The next step required is for your pet to undertake two ‘validation trials’ to ensure your pet has an appropriate level of discrimination between different food products. You will be rewarded with a $50 gift voucher (per pet) irrespective of whether your pet passes or not (as long as you complete both trials).
Things required for this next step include (please await further instruction for when you can pick these up):
• Signing a consent form
• Visiting your local VetLove clinic (Goonellabah, Ballina or Billinudgel) to pick up:
o Food bowls
o Pet food
o Electronic scales to weigh food
If your pet does not pass validation trials, you will still receive your $50 gift voucher (per pet) upon return of the bowls and scales. If your pet is suitable for further trials, you will retain the bowls and scales. For these upcoming validation trials, dogs will be fed dry food and cats will be fed wet food.
Trials
For the first validation trial, food will be offered in a single bowl. This trial will be conducted over 4 days and a different product will be offered each day. You will enter results into a Google form (similar to how you originally registered your details), so I can access and analyse the data.
The second trial will be a two-bowl trial, where your pet will be given different food products in each bowl, but I will go over the details of this another time.
Owners of both dogs AND cats, please respond to BOTH google forms below.
Dog owners
Please visit here to review the dates for each trial and sign up for one of the options. You will need to select one option for both SINGLE and TWO bowl validation.
Cat owners
Please visit here to review the dates for each trial and sign up for one of the options. You will need to select an option for both SINGLE and TWO bowl validation.
Kind regards,
Dr Steve
Palate Pro