After taming Archimedes, I found that he was a bit selective about the food he enjoyed eating.  When nothing was around, he would eat the chunks of meat that I provided for him, but he much preferred having live prey that he could stalk and hunt.

I decided that I would get a selection of food for him, and so I travelled to Booty Bay and searched on the auction house for something that would be suitable.  I found a few rabbits for sale and decided that I would purchase them, as they would make excellent prey. 

But Archimedes was still young, and not fully grown, and the rabbits were a bit large for him.  So I decided to bring them back to my camp, and use them for breeding, as I had purchased both a male and a female.  The young rabbits would be fine for Archimedes until he grew larger. 

I’d also heard from Dorio that small prairie dogs were for sale in Thunderbluff and I went and purchased a large number of them for the same reason.  They were much smaller than the rabbits and made excellent prey when they were full grown. 

Now I keep a full supply of live food on hand of Archimedes, and its seemed to help.  He has been much happier as of late and has been even fiercer in combat.  Yesterday, Dorio and I took our pets into battle against two plagues upon the Ghostlands, Knucklerot and Luzran.  These foul, massive abominations were ruthless in combat, but both Archimedes and Carnage kept them busy while Dorio and I littered them with arrows from a distance. 

When they finally fell to the ground, we cheered at our victory and I rewarded both our pets with a fresh prarie dog to chase.  They both enjoyed them very much.