*bleaaattt, bleaaattt.* Kittensitting? That's the greatest idea ever! Why would the claw bother you if your feeding them? With my cats they stick their head in the bowl if you try to put something in it.
You could follow the roman way of volunteers, they would sacrifice a goat to appease their gods but the goat had to volunteer to be sacrificed. So they would place a carrot in front of it and if it stretched its neck out to eat it then it volunteered.
I've just done the singe mission- Eagle Day, solo. Having to face 29 He111 with a few AI partners in a Hurricane is quite a challenge but then I had to land with the damaged aircraft. The engine damage was on black but I thought that meant the engine was broken but it worked to get back across the channel and land.
That happens sometimes to me but I power down my engine so much I can't pull up from the strafing run and I crash into the ground. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love the damage models in the gaem.