Food is Winston’s ultimate obsession, and he will stop at nothing to get his hands on it. His family believes it is a habit he picked up while he was a stray living on the streets since he even attempts to eat items that aren’t food. His family has come to terms with the fact that he is still fixated on food despite the fact that he now has access to enough of it.
Winston’s mother, Emily Tan, told The Dodo that her son “would practically devour his toys (not joking), especially the soft ones,” since he is “crazy with food, and just eating in general.”
Because of this habit, it’s often hard to find Winston-safe toys that his parents don’t eventually have to take away from him.
One day, Winton’s parents had just finished a bottle of cinnamon and left the empty bottle on the windowsill to be brought out to the recycling bin later. Instead, Winston found it, knocked it into his box and decided that it was officially his new favorite toy.
At first, his parents were definitely a bit confused. They couldn’t figure out why he loved the cinnamon bottle so much. He would spend all day cuddling with it, and if they tried to take it away, he immediately complained — and so it seemed the cinnamon bottle was there to stay.
He has a very powerful grab-and-pull reflex, so Tan explained that if he is cuddling with the bottle, he is highly resistant to having it taken away. He’ll embrace it with both of his arms close to his chest. It’s adorable.
Funny enough, Winston the toy destroyer really prefers the cinnamon bottle as a plaything over his other toys. He can play and cuddle with it for as long as he likes because he can’t chew it up as he can other toys.
Since it’s made of hard plastic and he can’t wrap his jaws around it, his cinnamon bottle is a more safer alternative for him, according to Tan. Therefore, we haven’t had to take this one away from him because of that.
Winston now enjoys curling up with his cinnamon bottle whenever he gets the chance. Infrequently, he’ll accidentally knock it out of his box and chase it about, but mostly, he just enjoys holding it. It has become his new best buddy, and he isn’t shy about saying so.
For a few months now, he has been hanging around with cinnamon, Tan said. He embraces it constantly and it just sort of lives in his box.
