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BanaBatGirl
"Yes, Bellchant," WWW repeated as he picked up his clipboard. He was barely containing his joy at finding students to scoop poop for him. He'd missed this, ya know? In the field, he only had a handful of interns to assign tasks to. Now he was seeing punishable offenses left and right. "We'll discuss this in the barn, after class, after you help with the evening tasks for the stable." And Maleficent could watch, heh heh heh.
He watched as she started by using treats to incentivize the kneazle to complete the jump, and marked something down on his clipboard. "Her name's Maleficent, not Merlin," he reminded the Slytherin with a smirk. "Keep going!"
As Isla rounded up her kneazle and gripped the end of the harness in her hand, she turned to face WWW.
"Evening tasks," she halfheartedly repeated.
"Looking forward to it, Sir." It was like looking forward to a needle in the eye or a fish hook to the foot.
"You got anymore of those treats? I'm using them as a training tool." PUH-LEASSSSSSE?! Also, she'd heard that comment about her pet's name. We're on to you, WWW.
She turned back to the obstacle course. Her plan was to use the treat as a sort of training tool, just like she'd explained to the professor. She'd heard about pets being trained that way, so why not kneazles? The next part of the obstacle course was some winding pathway that was anything
but straight. Maleficent eyed her owner, or the treat her owner had, that is. Isla picked up the same little ball she'd used before and rubbed the treat on it to give it a scent. She then tossed the ball into the pathway and began to nudge it along with her foot.
Maleficent seemed to watch curiously as Isla rubbed the treat along the ball. As the ball was tossed to the side, the scent followed it. Maleficent wanted the treat that had caused that scent, and so she scurried along after the ball much in the same way she would had the ball been a live mouse. When she reached the end of the winding pathway, she sniffed at the ball just as a piece of the treat landed beside it. The kneazle gobbled up the treat.
Isla watched as the treat landed on the ground and her kneazle devoured it. Was her training methods really working, or was the kneazle just wanting to eat? This was proving to be interesting...