lick...And just as I'm thinking that, there goes one pooping outside the toilet. Looking closely, it's one of the ones who misbehaved earlier. This one is my problem child. Gotta give her another flick on the forehead. When the punishment is over, it's finally SMT (Super Munch-munch Time). But wow, they sure are hyperactive creatures, crying, laughing, and talking as they eat. Yukkuris have the habit of broadcasting a running play-by-play of everything they do. It isn't clearly understood why they do this. They may vocalize everything they think because the bean paste areas that control their thoughts and their speech are adjacent and connected. Another explanation is that to make up for their insensitivity to others' negative feelings, their self-defense mechanism has manifested in announcing everything they do, showing that they have no hidden motives and preventing misunderstandings.plorpPoop's coming out!pootshakeDoing shake-shake!Fweelj good!Making poop!Next, it's SPT (Super Poop Time). Yukkuris fundamentally prefer cleanliness. Since they dislike filth and bad smells, toilet-training them is relatively easy. They excrete in the toilet and wipe their anyarus on the toilet sheet--or have their elders lick them, if they're babies--so yukkuris are seldom dirty. Luckily, I seem to have a nurturing type in my group, so she'll save me the trouble of having to educate the baby.lick lick ploopHAPPINESSSS!!!munchmunch...Or so I thought, but it seems I have two stupid ones. I'm not really sure how much they can take, but I give them each a flick on the forehead. I'm conditioning them to associate disobeying orders with pain. At first they fuss, saying "Id hurdz" and "Can't take it easy," but after they quiet down, I say, "Where's your 'I'm sorry'?" and they apologize, "Reibu'z zorry." With normal yukkuris, this is where they'd be spewing abuse like "shitty old geezer" or "drop dead," but apparently these new and improved models have had their vocabulary dealing with negativity replaced with milder phrases like "can't take it easy" or "take it easy already." Somehow, I feel like their personalities have become gentler, but is it just my imagination?
In any case, we certainly live in amazing times.Before you let your dog eat, you give her a command and make her "wait." You teach her that she can't eat if she doesn't listen to what you say--in other words, she's at the bottom of the pecking order. This situation is very easy with yukkuris, since they understand human language.munch nomId hurrrrdz!Can't take it easy!Yu-!put!Nom!Wait!Incidentally, this yukkuri food has yukkuri bean paste in its ingredients. In other words, pet yukkuris are constantly committing cannibalism without knowing it. It's not that I don't question the logic of it, but maybe the illogical part is trying to apply common sense to mysterious creatures filled with bean paste.
There, my preparations are complete, so now it's mealtime.RAISING YUKKURISFor healthy skin and bean paste!Fine
i.e., small piecesWith 7 Vitamins!YUKKURI MEALshakeTHWACK!Gonna take it easy!flail flailtumble tumblemunshGonna eat a lot!!!Yuuun!After moving the yukkuris to the aquarium, next, I prepare their food. I've bought them Yukkuri Meal, Fine-Grained Type, from Nippon Yukkuri Food (Inc.) You see a lot of TV commercials for it--the one with the trademark-infringement-looking Reimu on the package. I also have orange juice. Supposedly, mixing it into their food improves the shine of their hair and the firmness of their skin. It's not like I'm planning to show them in competition or anything, but since I'm a novice at this, I'd prefer for them to grow up healthy.