Just thought I'd mention "standing around for 5-6 hours" like everyone says was obviously not the intention of the developers. They meant for you to come back and feed it whenever you had time, and slowly nurse it back to health. Players just realized it would only accept one per day and chose to be single-minded about it, parking in Jeuno and doing nothing but waiting an hour to feed it.

It's not a very good design, sure, but the game is old and having everyone stand around was not the intention.