It can eat out of a bowl on its own, is what I mean.

[He figured that he had to do this once and after that, he could leave the bowl on the floor or if Gabe was going to insist on hand feeding, the older man could do it himself. This wouldn't be the first animal that he had to hand feed, but it had been a long time.

Soon the bowl was empty and he sighed heavily.]

Yeah, I can look and see if its male or female. There are a few ways. Posture method doesn't work on them.