Ask Dawn and Vern; Experiments on Mammalkind

 

Vernon: No trouble at all, in fact it's encouraged...

Dawn: Joking aside...is this a serious question? Honestly? If so, I think you can probably guess what most of Animalia's nations have to say about that sort of thing. Probably several densely worded legal documents in fact, peppered with words like 'un-mammalian', 'war crimes', and 'death penalty'.

Vernon: Yeah, aside from what Ully might tell ya, that sort of stuff has been very, very illegal since after the great rodent migration in the late 1940's to early 50's, after all them horror stories and documents came out about what certain nations did to solve their perceived 'rodent problem'. There's still sanctions placed on some of them places to this day.

Dawn: Maybe if you lived in a really bad third world country you could get away with that...or were a super-villian with your own private island in international waters to perform such experiments on.

Val: She probably knows what she's talking about, as an ex-super villian and all...

Vernon: HEY! VAL!?

Dawn: Who LET you in the house!?

Val: I copied your Mom's spare key. Y'know, in case I needed it...

Vernon: To steal out of our fridge again?

Val: Well, what's a few cold pizza slices and Mountain Dog's between family, eh sis?

Dawn: I TOLD YOU NOT TO CALL ME THAT!

 

Gus: Amplify. *shakes head* definitely amplify.

Vernon: Yeah, them two seem to draw out the worst aspects of one another when set in the same room.

Gus: I always took Ulric for a harmless goof, right?

Vernon: He is.

Gus: I know, but when he had the three of us up on the school's roof that night, I mean...I was already nervous. It was the most drastic thing he'd ever done. So I was...less certain I had him pegged right. But Joel being Joel...he just couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Broomie: Joel started egging him on, and playing into his delusions and just...amping him up to the point where he was raving like a mad dog.

Gus: Started raving? He was raving like a mad dog when he got us up there.

Broomie: Okay, fine. A madder dog then.

Gus: I remember when Joel started egging him to throw him off the roof. Remember that Broomie?

Broomie: How could I forget? Sweet Sawgrass...He was daring him. Telling him he wouldn't do it. Even called him a pussy.

Vernon: Didn't y'all tell me that Joel said once Ully threw him, he'd fly? Somethin' like that?

Gus: Apparently the type of alien your brother thought he was could fly somehow? Something about fake wool hiding air sacks in his neck? It was hard to understand, by that point Joel had him worked up to the point where all his words were bleeding together. But Joel said that once he flew back up, he would melt Ulric's brain with his laser vision.

Vernon:*Shakes Head* Lamb Sakes...

Gus: *Chuckles* Lamb Sakes?

Vernon: Sorry, the misses vocabulary is startin' to bleed into mine. *Chuckles*

Broomie: At least you had the brilliant idea of convincing Ulric to chloroform Joel again. For his own protection of course...I was too busy freaking out to manage to keep my cool like that.

Gus: Yeah, Joel still act like that was some sort of great betrayl on my part. *Snorts* It's like 'Dude, you were toying with a mentally unstable persons already fragile psyche!” It's like, did he want him to kill us?

Vernon: Ully would never do that.

Gus: Under normal circumstances, sure. But... I mean you didn't see the look in his eyes that night Vern. While Joel was teasing him. There was a moment there...I was sure we were going off the roof, one after the other.

Vernon:...Have I mentioned lately how grateful my family was that y'all didn't press charges?

Gus: Not enough times.

Ask Dawn; South Ursa Relations

 

Dawn: Generally speaking, Zootopia relation with the rest of the world powers are....well they are more positive than negative. There has always been a bit more tension between us, and Grussia, or us and Mainland Panda, but that has largely been a bleed over from the North Mammalian Nations own relationship with those countries. Granted, I am aware my book has only...furthered such tensions. I know for a fact it was banned in Panda and Grrussian, as well as numerous Northern Afrikat and South Mammalian countries for promoting a 'deviant lifestyle.' You've said it yourself, a great deal of the...less western Animalian aligned countries are...to them interspecies relationships are a symptom of social decay. Of course, that sort of accusation has been levied at Zootopia more than once for significantly lesser 'social' crimes.

In terms of my book, well, it's more of a....its largely in it's own bottle. I'm not the Assistant Mayor or Mayor anymore, merely a citizen. So in terms of my book souring relations between Zootopia and other countries anymore than they already were, the impact was minimal. Zootopia has largely had a decent relationship with the nations of South Ursa, and Singapurr, and I don't see that being severely strained due to my works. Although I know my book is pointed to by some as yet more proof at how immoral the 'Zootopian' way of life is. But as I said, it was merely something to add to the list some mammals were already keeping as to why Zootopia was a bad place. It wasn't going to change the hearts of mammals with that sort of outlook on the city at large.

I'm glad to hear there has been little protest in your area due to my book, and I do hope your country does move forward with providing benefits to mixed species families. While I don't know if you are in an interspecies relationship yourself, I can imagine you will at least agree that those of us in such relationships aren't hurting anyone. We just love who we love, and all we want is to be allowed that. I personally believe marriage, tithing, whatever name anyone else myight have for it, between two consenting mammals is an Animalian right, and I hope as the years go on, more countries will arrive at the same conclusion.

Ask Dawn; Zootopia Census Follow-up

 

Dawn: Right, right, Little Rodentia. I did inadvertently include Rodentia's population as part of Savannah Central's total. I apologize for that. It's a bad habit I picked up from my time working under Leodore. He would always forget about Little Rodentia as he didn't really consider it a 'real' district behind closed doors, and since I couldn't...well he wouldn't accept my corrections, so it eventually just became easier to tell him what he wanted to hear. Anyway, so...right. Little Rodentia makes up a whopping 1.5million of the residents of Savannah Central. Not counting them leaves the population at 5.5 million in Savannah Square.

As for the islands, such as Animalia's World Fair and Outback Island, as I said the population is negligible. We're talking 1-5,000 in terms of Animalia's world fair, and maybe less that 20,000 mammals living on Outback Island, if you count inmates and employees, as it's only real purpose is to house a prison. So both of those population measures, while notable, are comparatively small.

 Oh, and Animalia Fair Island is sort of hard to explain. It's an amusement park, as well as an international market and presentation space. You can get food and goods from all over Animalia there, which is why they call it 'The Animalia Fair'. It's also home to the yearly Animalian Science and Technology Expo, where they show off all sorts of inventions and cutting edge technology from all over Animalia. The first Expo ever in Zootopia was actually where they first demonstrated the rudimentary framework for what would become our City's greatest technological marvel, the climate control systems. Thus, it made the Expo a landmark in and of itself, and put Zootopia on the map in terms of being considered 'ahead of the curve' technology wise.