Well, you gotta consider. The beasts and hounds here, they're carnivorous, too. The plant's intelligent enough to respond to its owners and passerbys. So the owner has an obligation to be responsible for it.

Part of the orders of takin' care of it are to not feed it red meat, and I'm bettin' that's one of the things he's been doing. [Just a hunch, and not a far fetched one. It is a butcher's shop, after all.] It's a little mobile. It can't get out of its pot.