Ask Dori and Auddey; 20 years later

Welp, I took a stab at it, and here's the results. I went with the 'Tiger-Cheetah” combo with this one and ended up crafting a pretty mean looking business woman that I couldn't really come up with a name for. I figure she spent a lot of time as a kitten being made fun of and teased mercilessly for being a hybrid. Maybe even some family drama due to her being born as well. As an adult, she tries as best as she can to cover her tiger stripes up to obscure her hybrid parentage, even going so far to sport 'tail covers', which haven't been in fashion since the 80s. She's also bi-sexual. She doesn't care what parts you have, as long as you can make her feel as good in the bedroom as when she closes a deal at her office.

I'm probably never going to use her for my fic stuff, but hey...I'm still open to names.

 -WT

Ask Gazelle; Bubblegum Pop Garbage

 

Ask Dawn And Vern; Zootopia's Train Lines

 

Dawn: Oh, well this is something I can help with, as I used to have a pretty intimate knowledge of the Zootopian transit system. The bulk of the transit system is largely subway based. However, the line coming in from Bunny Burrow is a bullet train. It was actually designed by a Japandese company so that it was in-line with the same standards used for the ones in their home country. We intended to do the same to the Rainbow falls line into the North Meadowlands and Canidea, but a combination of funding issues, as well as a surprising amount of public outcry, led to the Rainbow line remaining more of a classic locomotive style train line. It's significantly slower than the 'Bunny Bullet', but the locals prefer the classic charm and....if we're being honest there are more places to stop on the Rainbow line than the Bunny Burrow line.

Vernon: I imagine it's gotta be a pain fer them mammal's lookin' to get over the Canidean mountain ridge quick, but there's something real cozy about a leisurely train trip. O'course, that may just be the “North Meadowland's Pup” in me talking.

Dawn: Last I heard, they are talking about establishing a subterranean bullet line that will connect in Canidea, sort of a way to meet in the middle, but I don't think they've been able to raise enough funds to set aside for it.

Vernon: Takin' a page out of the Trans-Afrikat line?

Dawn: *Chuckles* Although not nearly as vast. Seriously, that's one of Animalia's modern wonders.

Vernon: Along with Zootopia in the number one spot. As fer that lil' incident y'all are talkin' about, yes it's true, accordin' to my Pa anyway.

Dawn: Lamb sakes!? Was anyone hurt?

Vernon: Nah, they got out in time. This was the previous sheriff it happened to. And he didn't waste any time tryin' to dislodge the thing, he just bailed.

Dawn: That was a smart move.

Vernon: It was. Although my Pa believes the old sheriff bailed so quickly was because it made fer a good excuse to get fundin' fer a more modern vehicle. *Chuckles*

Ask Dawn and Vern; Platipi

 

Dawn: Platipi are yet another mammal that find themselves squarely on that rather slim list of non-sentient mammals. Not only that, but they are critically endangered.

Vernon: So, you can imagine we've never had the pleasure of meetin' one. Have seen one at the aquarium though.

Dawn: As for why they are endangered, well that's due to civilized mammalian encroachment on their natural habitat in Austailia. I mean, most mammalian societies have tried to design their cities and communities so that they blend with the local ecosystem to some degree. This is done both for the comfort of the mammal species living there, as well as to allow the non-sentient wildlife to continue to live relatively undisturbed.

Vernon: But that whole sentiment stops when the wildlife poses a threat to the rest of us.

Dawn: Right, so species like the Platipus have been kind of...pushed aside when it came to land development, out of fear that other mammals and their offspring would get hurt. And while not as threatening as some of the species of carnivorous ostrich, reptile or therapsid, it was still a danger the Austalian government felt needed to be restricted from entering civilian areas, which led to loss of habitat and endangerment.

Vernon: as fer egg layin' mammals, I suppose iffin' you want a take on that, you'd be askin' an echidna.

Dawn: I've never met one personally. I think the last time I got a chance to look over census records for Zootopia, there was exactly one echidna in Zootopia, and a male at that.

Vernon: Still got his information?

Dawn: *Chuckles* Of course not Puppy, why?

Vernon: I was just curious about that other thang I heard about echidnas...

Dawn: You mean...?

Vernon: I mean, four heads...what do you even do with that kinda junk? It's like he got one of them Mewdusa's heads below his beltline.

Dawn: *Giggling*

(WT: I actually forgot if I ever said Platipi were sentient or not, but it feels more appropriate for them not to be. Hey, I called this blog 'soft cannon' for a reason.)

Ask Judy; Largest Rabbit Family

 

Judy: Well, there aren't really any 'official' numbers in terms of historical rabbit family sizes. By that I mean, 'official' numbers tend to ball-park the exact number, usually being off by a few.

Nick: Unsurprising, especially the further you go back.

Judy: The largest rabbit family that has been recorded in modern history would be one 'Welsker' family in the more rural areas of Great Kitten. Historians estimate they had around one-thousand-two-hundred and ten-ish total living kits at one time, and close to fourteen-hundred total births. The town of Welsker is actually named after the family, and up until 1346-ish it was solely occupied by the Welsker brood.

Nick: So what happened to them?

Judy: Plague happened. Specifically the black rodent plague. Wiped out the entire township, and left it abandoned for three decades or so, that was until some cousins and other relatives who had survived the plague came back to resettle the land. But had the plague not happened, historians think the heads of the family could have had at least another two hundred kits before they would have been too old to keep it up.

Nick: Oof, that's rough...

Judy: Of course, there's said to have been bigger rabbit broods in the past, the most famous being the Gilrades brood, which depending on which rabbits you ask, were said to have had nearly ten-thousand kits. *Chuckles* Although that's taking into account that the sire of those kits wasn't exactly a 'loyal' mate, and spread the 'joy' around a good portion of Roarope.

Nick: A rabbit who can't keep it in his pants, why am I not surprised?

Judy: At the rate he supposedly popped out kits, I don't think he ever wore pants. *Laughs* Still, there is a nugget of truth to the tale, in that a good portion of European descended rabbits are genetically related to the Gilrades brood, specifically one “Jack” Gilrades.

Nick: OH! So that's where-!

Judy: Horny as a Jack Rabbit comes from? Yes. *Chuckles*

Ask Dawn And Vern; Doug at the Door

 

Dawn: Slam the door. Call the police. I mean....what else could I do?

Vernon: Fella's got a life sentence. Iffin' he showed up at the door, there ain't nothin' good that could come from it.

Dawn: And the gods can only hope I could close the door fast enough. What if he had a gun? Or a bomb? Lamb sakes! The last time he 'dropped by' where I was living, he set it on fire!

Vernon: Dawn's got a taser, and me o'course iffin' I'm home, but we ain't got much stronger than that in terms of home defense. The bigger districts don't like licensing folks out personal tranq weapons out of fear they'll accidentally overdose a mammal by misjudgin' the size needed to take 'em down. And ownin' live-fire weapons only flies in districts like the North Meadowlands and Alpine Glade.

Dawn: And there are the lambs to worry about now, and...gods *Shudders* I'm shaking just thinking about him trying to grab them on their way to the bus at school...

Vernon: At least we got eyes in the ZPD lookin' out fer us, and our pups.

Dawn: Thankfully...and with all the corruption 'hopefully' cleaned out of Outback Island's prison system, Doug should never be able to get out again.

Vernon: Iffin' he does, the full force of the ZPD will be waitin' for him should he come anywhere near the city.

Ask Vernon; Paige 'Experiments'

 

Vernon: Zero times. Of course, that's probably cause y'all meant to say Ulric instead O' Yuri.

Yuri: How anyone could confuse me for that loose lug-nut of a wolf is practically insultin'.

Vernon: As fer tryin' to experiment on Paige, he did try once. Only once.

Yuri: Was that when he was tryin' to take police-style paw printin's of her back at Ma and Pa's?

Vernon: Yessir. That's how we ended up with that half print of Ully's face we had Ma hang on the fridge remember?

Yuri: *Chuckling* Aw yeah, how could I ferget. Y'know Vern, fer a mammal who ain't in the line of work that calls fer practicin' yer still purty good at them take down maneuvers Pa taught us.