Scala Generics & Reflection Issue

I noticed some gap around reflection and generics and I wonder is anybody can help here.

Let say I have the following abstract class:

abstract class Animal[T : Eatable: ClassTag] {

     def eat(food: T) : Unit
}

And here is one implementation of it:

class Dog[DogFood] {

    def eat (food: DogFood) : Unit = ???
}

class DogFood extends Eatable

And here i had some method that given an animal, feeds it

def feed[T <: Eatable](animal: Animal[T]) : Unit = {
    val isAvailable = Storage.isAvailable[T]
    ???
}

Now let say I want to instantiate the implementation class using reflection as it is part of my system configuration:

val config = ....
val animalCls = config.getString("animal.type")
val animalInstance = animalCls = Class.forName(animalCls).newInstance

// Issue is here - I can't call this method as it uses classTags!
feed(animalInstance)

A solution might be :

 val animalCls = config.getString("animal.type").asIsntanceOf[Animal[_]]

But then the following call inside feed will fail as it doesn't bind the right type:

Storage.isAvailable[T]

Any ideas here?

Thanks!