Elephant in the Room 
Derek’s previously ejected a wooden tomato toy from their house (see post here) and has now taken to ejecting their soft toy elephant!
Watch the video below.
Derek’s previously ejected a wooden tomato toy from their house (see post here) and has now taken to ejecting their soft toy elephant!
Watch the video below.
Ronnie and Derek love eating sweetcorn and I gave them some to eat from a cob. They enjoyed it a lot, as shown in the video below, but shortly afterwards the ‘sweet turned to sour’ as they started wrestling over the cob!
I now cut the corn off and place it in their mini-buckets for them to avoid any wrangling.
Listen out for the loud noise they make when eating the sweetcorn!
Watch below a video of Ronnie and Derek enjoying tucking into the remains of a cooked piece of chicken. They weren’t allowed to eat the whole thing – just a small bit!
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Ronnie and Derek are occasionally allowed to lick up the remains of food, such as from the bottom of yoghurt pots – see video below. They’re not allowed to do it too much otherwise they’d become overweight and risk ingesting too much sugar!
Ronnie and Derek love sniffing intently when they know there’s food about – they’d surely love to wear a perfume that was the smell of food (possibly branded ‘Odour Food’). Watch the video below to see them getting over-excited about sniffing out a meal that was nearby!
Watch Ronnie and Derek giving a plate a good lick and clean!
Ronnie and Derek eating mini pumpkins at Halloween! See the full post (including photos) here.
Watch Ronnie and Derek enjoying a dried corn-on-the-cob – and look out for Derek managing to pull the whole thing into the cage, plus Ronnie fighting Derek for some corn he had!
Ronnie and Derek recently enjoyed climbing around in the mint plant and eating bits of it! Watch a clip of this below.
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