"Oh! I can kind of feel it! but you'll have to do better than that!"

I couldn't resist

kaen would do pretty well here plus he likes trying out spicy human food (to him and others like him, our spicy food to them is like elves in LOTR drinking human alcohol, just a tingle.)

also to explain why he's a bit small here is because dragon dogs have the ability to make themselves smaller (German shepherd sized or other sizes of large dogs).