Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

"Professor, maybe we can try talking to and reasoning with them. I know that sounds dumb, but I've noticed that it seems to work with other creatures. They may not be able to understand what we are saying but I'm sure they can recognize gestures and the tone of voice. We can even try bribing them. Do something I want you to do and I'll reward you...with lots of boogers,"

...yes the reward system always worked. It applied to both humans and creatures alike.

Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

"You could try using positive reinforcement. Every time the puffskein does something that you want them to do, they get a treat. You would give them something that they really like. Then if they do what you want consistently, you cut back on treats to every other time or every third time.". Alex didn't know if her idea would work with puffskeins, but maybe it would. If that didn't work, you could always try the Confundus charm.

Originally Posted by Cassirin

"My bunny got fat, so I made him a little collar with a carrot that was attached out of reach, and he had to chase it around. He really hated it, but he hates lots of things, but it worked. I used his love of carrots against him." Okay, so maybe it was a one time experiment, and Titus had bitten Mo afterwards, but it had worked... one time.

Originally Posted by Squishy

Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

Originally Posted by Rosa Chispa Princessa

"I think you should reward them with a little treat and punish them for bad behavior, like give them a treat if they do what you say, hit them lightly if they do the wrong thing. Punishment for bad and award for good always worked fore growing up", Oichi replied with a smirk with her hand raised high.

Originally Posted by Grrr..Meow

Bay raised his hand and he hoped that he gave an actual answer this time.. *knocking on his head first* he started to talk "we could always try and get their attention with sparkly and maybe music toys.. and like play fetch with them to get their exercise?" he thought.. why not right.. if those were in front of him right now he would want to play with them for sure. quickly looking around to see if any of those objects were around… he didn't see any… sigh...

Originally Posted by carpediem

"What if you did it like a dog? Taming I mean. Lots of good reinforcement and continue the commands clearly and firmly?" Like a dog. At least that's how Calen thought you trained a dog. She had no clue if that was even right. "Someone else already said something about treats, which might make sense in that scenairo." Woah, she sounded smart. Cue the adjusting of the nerdy glasses and the snorting. Sterotypical nerd.

Originally Posted by Deezerz

Suggestions were bring thrown out faster than she could come up with an answer, and unfortunately one of her ideas was mentioned. Beverly tapped her chin, thinking. If she were a puffskein, how would someone get her to exercise? True, nowadays she was worse than a hibernating bear, but have someone mention dragon-watching she'd be up faster than you could say Chinese Fireball.

Thinking something up, she raised her hand. "Hold a stick with bogeys in front of a puffskein and run with it. I'm sure it'll chase after." OR... "That or put on a dragon mask. M'sure it'll get them running." AND it was legal. A tad on the mean side, but LEGAL.

Originally Posted by Hey Ju

Originally Posted by lemon

"Is there such a thing as puffskein quidditch?" Yeah. It could be a sport, Alice decided. Miniature one, with the little balls on a broomstick held there by like ties and tiny gloves attached to their sides for catching or such. Surely, they'd catch the hang of it soon and would turn into tiny puff-jocks. Mhm. New breed of puffskein, the athletic kind.

... that didn't sound far-fetched, did it?

She would pay to see that, so it couldn't have been.

Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Legit ways of making them work off that extra bigness so they didn't grow the size of a castle? Legit ways? That automatically excluded the imperio curse, didn't it? Gosh this made things harder. Her kneazle was obedient and had a mind of his own. She knew from experience that there was very much a lot of work that would be involved in this and it got her bones aching just thinking about it. Whatever happened to naps? She liked those.

"I say you run a puffskein boot camp, get them on a routine and keep them on it. Though that would be time consuming and honestly a little tedious after awhile." But maybe that was just her. She didn't have patience for the more mundane pets. Granted there was nothing mundane about puffskeins but compared to something like say.......a chimaera, they were tame, boring even.

Could they have a class on chimaeras?

Originally Posted by Destiny

"You could have puffskein races! Get a whole bunch of fatty puffskeins, line them up and make them race." Maybe use that dragon mask that her dorm mate mentioned for motivation. "It'll be like exercise. And if you're the betting type, you might even win a bunch of galleons." It would be a win-win!

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Interesting. Adi had not known that a Puffskein could be stubborn at times. Wanting to eat and relax sounded more like laziness, though. Hehe. He raised his hand to make a wild but yet educated guess.

"There's perhaps some sort of charm we use to get them motivated, Professor,'' he said.

Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah

Cutty's expression brightened when he heard Alice mention puffskein quidditch, but he was not at all imagining anything which even remotely resembled Alice's vision for this. Recalling that his was a fusion class of Care of Magical Creatures and Charms he took a minute whilst the other students answered to deduce that they were looking for a very specific answer and one that was possibly related to charms. Remembering the sound of the rabbits claws from last year as it struggled to get away from him and he Carpe Retracted it back for spell practice, his hand went up again, "You could use charms to provide resistance to motion like."

Originally Posted by SweetPeea

"Professor? Perhaps, maybe you could just play with them all day by doing tricks & reward them with treats. But use a charm to make healthy snacks look/taster like their usual snack per say? That way, not only are they having fun, they're exercising & eating healthier without even realizing it?"

That seemed somewhat reasonable? Right?

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

"Pair them up with a more well behaved puffskein. They'd have someone to play with so they could get lots of exercise, they'd need to share food which means they wouldn't get as fat, and perhaps an older puffskein could be a good influence on the younger, more unruly ones." Yeah, little whippersnappers.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Watching them bounce around the twelve year old actually felt jealous of them and their energy. He missed that energy and the want to run around like crazy. "Aren't they safe just in a cage like this one, then they can't really get to the extra things to eat, they have room to exercise, and you feed them so you know what they are eating?" Though the charms professor was here for a reason so maybe they would be doing a daydream charm on them, make them believe they were eating grass when they weren't or something.

Originally Posted by emjay

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Sophie raised her hand. "Pygmy Puffs supposedly don't object to being thrown about, so maybe all that throwing around keeps them in shape," she suggested. "Either that or they get so nauseated from being thrown around that they don't feel like eating." Made sense to her.

Then about that other question... "Maybe they're raised in different environments, away from other Puffskeins, so they adapt and have different traits over time," she said. "Maybe they develop traits of their own then pass them on to other Pygmy Puffs."

Originally Posted by Cedric

Originally Posted by Meizzner

Puffskeins

So that was what they were. Alright now Nigel knew what these very kick-able creatures were called. Did not change anything. Nigel listened to Professor Awesome beard and hair talk about these things and heard the question asked.

"Kick Them"

Though that might be animal cruelty. Meh. It looked like it would not hurt them anyway.