[That's a lot of questions. However, he can manage to answer all of them.]

You should try to let it out whenever you want to bond with it or during meal time. And they usually eat some berries back in my world, though they are also attracted to human food such as sweets.

And I don't think you can leave it around small children due to it's typing, but if stays with you very long, it might be able to get along with them without any problem.