Cheese Dragons are not actually alive. They are enchanted items of food that act almost identically to dragons. They have no need to eat, but they must “live” in humid environments or they will dry out and harden.

Picandou was animated by a bored wizard with very exquisite taste and a love for exotic food. His egg was wrapped in chestnut leaves and drained in prune brandy for weeks. The wizard really looked forward to eat his little artwork once it was hatched.

Luckily enough, he wasn't in the room when Picandou finally hatched and the little creature fled the tower at once.

After days and weeks on the run from cheese-eating monsters, Picandou finally found refuge with the caretaker of a dragon clan. Since Herk doesn't eat cheese at all and her clan adopted Picandou as one of their own, he feels perfectly safe now and enjoys his life.