Hi Gator,
I have tried cooking for her. When she first had trouble eating, I tried making all kinds of things, including boiled chicken. She wouldn't touch it. Otherwise I would have already tried your recipe. She is now eating FF and pretty consistently likes the classic beef flavor. She also eats some Friskees and some 9 Lives, altho she seems to do best with ff. Also eats some Wellness. She greatly prefers the jelly or gravy in any of those cans---so often she will eat mostly that part, and tho I mix the food with water, it does not seem to be the liquid that she wants, just the gravy. I wish I knew a lo carb recipe for that kind of gravy.
However, there is definitely something wrong with her---other that the diabetes and the mouth symptoms. She just seems strange. Slow moving, more and more wary of me (of course I am always coming at her with some kind of medicine--insulin, flagyl, phenobarb, or to test her or give fluids), and often just standing there without moving. And she is having some kind of trouble drinking--she bats at the water a lot and sometimes cries a little. She spends most of her time under a blanket on the couch. It is so sad.