[Astrid snaps her fingers at Fuzzball twists around and bounds back to her, leaping on her hand and running up to sit on her shoulder.]

I don't know. I wouldn't want them to have to spend their whole lives being something they don't want to be. [She shrugs again.] If people were going to do that, force them...that's pretty terrible.

I mostly just...let them train. They seem to enjoy that. [She did, anyway. And they didn't complain. Well, except for her Pidgeotto, but that one was a bit lazy.]