((Side note: Tix is an herbivore. This means she canāt digest meat-based products. She could try and eat meat - but it would most likely upset her stomach a lot. She eats a largely plant-based diet; fruits, berries, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, spicies, sugars and everything else that can be made from these kinds of raw ingredients. She likes a good cooked meal and also enjoys sweets made from non-animal ingredients. She usually swallows her food whole, unless she is eating for the sake of enjoyment. In these cases she will use cutlery to dish out smaller āportionsā for herself to taste. Then she swallows it. Tix has no teeth and therefore donāt require any chewing of the food. The āchewingā happens once the food enters her digestive system. Here, much like birds, enzymes and bacteria in her first āstomachā will soften the material. Then the softened food will enter her second āstomachā, where itāll get crushed and mashed up by stomach-muscle-retractions and grinded by small rocks that are inside the stomach - in Tixās case itās gemstones because she feels like it makes her much more fancy than she actually is. Food continues to the intestines where nutriens enter the blood. Any waste will leave through the cloaca. Thanks for reading the tiny āAnatomy of Tixā section :> And thank you so much for the question! :D ))
