So I'm slowly taking Lizzy through all her growing up stages and getting her into a feeding routine - which mostly means training myself to present her feeding leaf to her in such a way that she actually recognises it. I guess you could say she's programming me.
I'm still not quite sure I've got things down properly though. On two occasions I've given her the leaf, but instead of enjoying it for a while and then releasing it, she's held on to it for a long time, shaking it around in her mouth playfully. Once I took it off her because I was concerned that she'd been turning her head only to one side the whole time (in what looked like a refusal gesture) and she carried on as normal. Today when she was holding on to it but moving her head more normally, I took it off her a couple of times but she immediately opened her mouth wide to take it again. Eventually she did drop it on her own!
This playing-with-food behaviour is cute no matter what the reason, but I am curious about whether it's an intentional behaviour or something I'm causing by incorrectly feeding her.
