Maddy lead her Hippogriff over to the containers, one with Ferrets and the other with flies. She dug into her bag to reach for her ever useful dragon hide gloves. To her surpise, they weren't there! I must have left them in the student garden Maddy thought. She turned to her Hippogriff "I'll let you choose", she said as she gestured to the barrals. She guided her Hippogriff infront and it paused, and sniffed at the barrals one at a time.

It chose the flies, it started eating mouthfulls of them out of the barral! Stop! Maddy instructed. And she pulled on it to get it to listen, careful not to insult it. But it got insulted anyway and rose up on it's hind legs and went **brak brak**. Maddy looked arround for the teacher but she couldn't see him from where she was standing. calm down she told the Hippogriff it's ok. And she took a handful of flies out of the bin and held it out for it while making eye contact. It snapped at her, Maddy jumped with fright. But she diddn't loose her cool, come have some more flies...and a ferret she said and grabbed a dead ferret out of the other container. This time the Hippogriff obeyed.

Good boy she said and stroked it's feathers (without pulling them this time).