i have to say, if i was going to keep a pet yukkkuri one of the first things I'd teach it is that not everything is alive or thinks. This would probably take the better part of my free time for the first week, unfortunately.
Hell, I know _people_ who can't get that through their heads, though. You know the type-- people who refuse to maintain their computer properly, click every link that pops up in their browser, then have fits about their "cheap piece of crap" system when it starts to run sluggishly.