Due to her teeth, Sushi has problems eating very hard food, such as lab blocks. She has a lot of other food options and gets enough to eat, and usually only eats lab blocks immediately after her teeth are trimmed.
Last night I noticed that Sushi was hanging out in the area of the cage by the water bottle and there were a couple of lab blocks laying underneath the bottle. As I watched, she used her shoulder to repeatedly bump into the end of the water bottle, causing drops of water to fall out. The water fell out onto her perfectly aligned lab block laying below it. She wasn't playing or moving around during this time, causing her to hit the bottle inadvertently. She was staying still and just repeatedly touching the end of it.
Once the lab block was fairly soaked, she very carefully scraped off the top half or so, which was completely saturated. She ate this while sitting there, and then carried the remaining damp but not soaked lab block to her nest. She ate the rest of the wet block at that point.
I might be crazy. Or, I might have watched Sushi soften her food so that she could eat it.
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