I always wondered if the eeveelutions are considered omnivores what specifically do their diets consist of? And does it differ on the specific eeveelution?

Eevee and its evolutions lean more toward (for the most part) carnivorous lifestyles, actually. While, like most pokémon, they can eat nuts, berries, grains, root vegetables, and so forth, much of their diet should be meat and protein of some kind.

That having been said, the answer to your second question depends. In captivity, the eevee family can actually be fed the exact same diet, regardless of what evolution each individual takes, with no real consequences so long as their trainer keeps in mind that they should be fed a balance of foods.

In the wild however, absolutely, it depends on the evolution.

Eevee tend to have the most balanced diet (as one would expect) and will eat whatever it can find in its immediate environment.

Flareon often stick to slower animals and pokémon, and its favored food sources tend to be small mammals. It will also display the unusual behavior of roasting their food with the intention of cooking it before eating. (Trainers should be aware that tamed flareon also display this behavior and should only be fed in fireproof environments.)

Vaporeon, being aquatic pokémon, will eat mostly seafood, including fish, amphibians, turtles, jellyfish, and aquatic mammals (such as seals). It tends to avoid shellfish, likely due to the difficulty in getting them open, but it will also hunt for larger meat sources (such as walruses, dolphins, and even sharks) in packs.

Jolteon, being faster and gifted with electrical attacks, often hunt for birds and forage for eggs. It’s also the one eeveelution that prefers pokémon meat over animal meat, as bird pokémon tend to be larger targets than their animal “counterparts.”

Espeon and Leafeon both tend to eat more of a herbivorous diet than their cousins. This does not mean that they are strictly herbivorous; simply that they forage more often than the others. Espeon tends to hunt for insects and other animals with lesser cognitive functions thanks to its psychic abilities. Leafeon, meanwhile, avoids insects (due to its plant biology) and consumes largely rodents, rabbits, frogs, and anything else it can find in its forest habitat. (Leafeon also photosynthesizes whenever a food source isn’t readily available.)

Umbreon, meanwhile, is much more of a carnivore than its cousins in that its diet consists almost entirely of meat. As a nocturnal, forest-dwelling pokémon in nature, it will often hunt for small, ground-dwelling pokémon and animals, particularly diurnal ones. It has no qualms raiding the nests of sleeping prey, in other words.

Glaceon will often consume whatever it can find in its colder, more arctic environment—usually seafood (for polar glaceon) or rabbits (for mountainous). Glaceon may also share territory with vaporeon, sometimes even hunting alongside them to take down larger prey (such as seals and even walruses).

Finally, Sylveon, like eevee, will eat whatever it can find in its environment but typically chooses prey it can lure into dark corners of its habitat and then devour.

I have an espeon and a umbreon, they are both male and they really like each other and is looking after this egg I received from the professor. I think they are telling me they want a egg on their own but how can I tell them that it’s biologically impossible?

You might not need to tell them at all, anonymous, especially if their problem is less about the fact that they don’t know they can’t procreate and more about the fact that they want young and are willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill that need. That having been said, if letting them take care of your professor’s egg and resulting hatchling over a longer period of time is out of the question, then oftentimes, breeders end up with abandoned eggs, or a trainer decides they can’t take care of a hatchling. Either would be perfectly acceptable avenues for securing the egg or hatchling your pokémon want. Ideally, you may want to adopt an egg in order to give your espeon and umbreon the full experience of pokémon parenthood (short of laying the egg, of course), but if that’s not an option, allowing them to raise a hatchling together after it’s born works just as well.

Alternatively, you could use a surrogate ditto lay an egg or few for them so that the hatchling will at least be biologically one of the parents. Some trainers opt for that option, as it’s easier for the parents to bond with the egg, which is really the important thing. Your espeon and umbreon may not see the egg as theirs because it’s technically yours, as far as they’re concerned. If you, quite literally, give them an egg of their own, that should be sufficient to fulfill their wishes to be parents.

If, however, you’re referring to the possibility that they are mating with extreme vigor because they don’t understand that neither of them can lay an egg, then I would suggest explaining it to espeon first. Espeon, due to their psychic elemental, are more likely to understand human conversation than a dark-type umbreon, and in any case, it would be much easier to deal with the telepathic backlash from your espeon’s shock sooner, rather than later.

Best of luck, anonymous!

I have a skitty and an espeon as pets and my skitty keeps jumping on espeon! He follows him around the house, as if waiting for him to relax and the pounces. Whenever I’m in a room, seemingly alone with espeon, skitty suddenly appears! Is this normal behavior?

Strangely enough, yes! Skitty are notoriously playful pokémon, and they seem most attracted to other creatures they perceive as cat-like beings. While you are essentially a very large cat to your skitty, your espeon has a generally cat-like shape that’s larger than your skitty’s, so therefore, your espeon is a much more ideal target. Usually, this behavior subsides upon evolution, but that’s not really a guarantee, unfortunately. Either way, if you’ve chosen not to evolve your skitty, I’m afraid that your espeon has many, many days of being pounced on ahead of him.

Hey Bill! Is there anyway that emotional based eeveelutions could transform into two different forms at the same time? What if say- during the night, your eevee has max friendship and love ? Could it turn into a Sylbreon?

As exciting as that might be, anonymous, unfortunately no. Evolution is a full-on transformation into a set form: there is no such thing as a hybrid evolution (in this sense, anyway—some people argue that slowbro and slowking are hybrid evolutions, but that’s another story) for the same reason hybrid hatchlings don’t exist. They’re two separate genetic entities, in other words, defined by very specific criteria. Think of it like a light switch, in other words, wherein the conditions for the state of being “on” are completely different from those of being “off.”

That having been said, an eevee in this scenario would evolve based on which emotion is stronger. If they feel generally happier, they’ll evolve into either espeon or umbreon, depending on the time of day. (Eevee will evolve into espeon if they’re exposed to any form of sunlight, including the little amount they get at sunrise and sunset, incidentally.) If they feel a stronger sense of belonging and physical comfort, they’ll be sylveon instead. Usually, one emotion is stronger than the other (either happiness for their trainer or pack or the feeling of being loved by their trainer or pack), but if the feeling is exactly equal, they’ll remain as eevee until one emotion outweighs the other.

Unless, of course, the eevee has chosen its particular form. If an eevee at equilibrium actually wants to be an umbreon instead of a sylveon or vice-versa, then they’ll will themselves towards that form.

This is, of course, also not taking into consideration environmental factors (such as proximity to a moss-covered rock), but seeing as you’ve specified emotion-based evolutions for eevee, I’ll keep it at this.