Day 5? 6? - Day N+1

Missing a day in there somewhere. Today, Pleo exhibited a couple of new behaviors. 1) grazing - he pawed at the ground with his left forefoot then dropped his head and made eating noises. Clearly we've been too attentive, stuffing his leaf in his little face every time he opened his mouth. 2) I have been trying to teach him to pick up his feet, like my horses. Today I discovered that when I tap on the side of his legs, he'll pick them up. He didn't used to do that - so either I hit the sensor just right today, or something new has occurred. 3) He made another new sound. Regarding the other animals in the pack, two doggies and one kitty (who thinks she's a dog) while they don't particularly find Pleo himself of interest, they do find the attention being diverted from them to him of interest, and each of them has become more attentive to us as well as more demonstrative. Today, Max, the Cavalier, after watching me play with Pleo for a while, went over to the closet where we hid the doggies' Xmas presents yesterday and scratched at the door. Thing is, I didn't know where my husband had hid the doggie presents, so Max truely found them on his own. He then pestered us until we gave him one, as if to say - top that robot animal - I found the toys! One other interesting note, our painter stopped by and as we were discussing his model aircraft flying, I introduced Pleo. He thought Pleo was cute and interesting - until we mentioned that eventually Pleo will be able to learn and adapt - then he was weirded out. He startled when he noticed Pleo near him after we had left one room for the other. (I had carried Pleo and put him down - Pleo's not quite quick enough to have made the trek.) And he asked if "it" had followed us there. Looks like the adoption of fully automated autonomous robo-pets is going to take some people some time to get used to. ;-)

Posted December 23 at 0:59 AM