Ask the BellHunters

Hello, I'm Dawn Hunter-Bellwether...er, formerly Dawn Bellwether if you didn't recognize the added surname. And before you ask, yes 'that' Dawn Bellwether. Ex-Assistant Mayor, Ex-Mayor, Ex-Criminal Mastermind (Reformed thank you very much), City Savior, Controversial Author, and Predator/Prey relationship advocate. I'm also, as you probably guess by the hyphenated last name, married, and happily so to my mate Vernon Hunter, a gray wolf. I'm also a mother to three wonderful pups, something I never thought I'd ever have the chance to be! But, lamb sakes, I've gushed enough about myself here without explaining exactly what this blog is for. You see, after the release of my book “Predator Seeking Prey”, our little family started to get a lot of public attention again, and with it came a lot of question from curious mammals and other pred/prey couples from all over Animalia. My best friend and mate Vernon thought it would be a good idea to deal with these questions directly by opening a sort of blog/forum and taking those questions about our lives directly. Since then, I'd like to say our little blog has been quite successful, with even members of our family and friend circle pitching in and taking a few questions as well. So with all that said., please feel free to Ask Away!


Oh, and also, feel free to check our old location for previous asks until we can get a better archive system in place!


The original Ask Dawn And Vern Tumblr! This blog is a continuation/reboot of the "AskDawnAndVern" tumblr, as I am permanently locked out of the Tumblr at present.

https://askdawnandvern.tumblr.com/


(Blog Author Note: This blog is based on the fanfiction “The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether” as well as it's pseudo-sequel “A Lamb Among Wolves”. If you haven't read them, it'll probably help you better understand what's going on here if you do. I'll link both stories below. Oh Also, I'm open to questions as well. Simply direct “Author” emails to “WastedTime” when composing them. And before I forget, I have a Patreon! Five dollars gets you access to in progress fics, Ask priority, and art previews of both SFW and NSFW art. Of course, even a dollar would help. Seriously, it's how I keep projects like this alive.


The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11999389/1/The-Rehabilitation-of-Dawn-Bellwether

A Lamb Among Wolves:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12364172/1/A-Lamb-Among-Wolves


Wasted Time's Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/wastedtimeee


And Finally, Please Submit your asks to this email address!
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If the link doesn't work for you, send those emails to "Wastedtimeee@Askthebellhunters.com"

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Dawn Pregancy Meme & Update on Posting Schedule!

 


First ask back and I'm already cheating. I'm sorry guys, I just...I really wanted an excuse to do this one. Really any excuse to draw Dawn and Vern being all lovely dovey is...an excuse I'll abuse every time. It's just how I am wired. Anyway, I do hope you enjoy this...

As for...my original announcement of "Monday's and Fridays" well...now I gotta hit you with some bad news. I kinda...overextended myself with a lot of...projects and the intention to study tutorials and commissions. And to top that all off I...after everything that happened this year I really want to spend some holiday time with my Mom. I want to watch spooky movies and stuff...So at least for now, I'll be limiting the asks to just...Mondays. Hopefully, that will change in January, but for now, it's the only way to relieve some of the pressure. That said, I will be upping Monday's ask numbers from 4 to 6 to compensate but not overload. So that'll hopefully make up for it.

Thanks guys, Much Love,
-Wasty


Didn't Ask Yuri: Prank Ideas

 



Yuri: Alright, I got a question myself fer y'all. What has Vern and that little lamb o' his been sayin' about me on this thing that's makin' all these mammals I don't know root fer embarassin' me? Huh? Er' floatin' prank ideas to the rest of my family? Seriously, what did I do to y'all? How much did them say about me in that book o' Dawn's?

Ada: Youse didn't read it?

Yuri: One thing I ain't embarrassed to admit is that I ain't a heavy 'reader'.

Ada: O' come ons, youse love to tease Voin! I woulda' tawt dat book woulda' been a goldmine of material for youse!

Yuri: First off, there purty much ain't one thang, embarasin' 'er otherwise, that I don't know about Vernon. That goes fer the rest of my brothers too. That's what happens when y'all live seven to one bedroom from puphood to college. Secondly...from what I heard y'all and the other gals chatterin' and gigglin' over, I'd prefer not to know the details. Last thing I want is the mental image of what my brother looks like mid-rut.

Ada: *Cackles* Dat's funny, from what your brudders tell me, dey feel da same way about youse. But dat ain't enough to stop youse from talkin' up your's bedroom game in graphic detail to 'em.

Yuri: Talkin' up!? I'm merely spittin' facts.

Ada: *Shakes her head* Youse are lucky youse are cute.

Yuri:*flashes Ada a skeptical glare* Hmm?

Ada: *Loll's her head* Ehh...you ain't too bad in da bedroom eader...

Yuri: HA! Let the records show that Yuri Hunter knows how to give a damn good rut! *Chuckles* Not that anyone should be surprised, I practically wrote the book on ruttin'...

Ada: Nah, dat would be ya sista' in-law...*Cackles* And honestly, it wouldn't kill yas to give it a skim...youse might loin a ting or two...

Yuri: Pft, I don't need no lesson's on good lovin' from Vermin thank y'all very much, not to mention what I said earlier bout' that runt and his 'o' face bein' etched into my brain...

Ada: All I'm sayin' is youse are doin' yaself a disservice.

Yuri: Y'all really tryin' to imply I'm some limp Omega?

Ada: Nah Babe. I'm only sayin'...I mean...I picked up some tricks from Dawn myself...Like dat thing I tried out on youse a month ago...dat thing you liked so much?

Yuri: Wait, y'all got that from...?

Ada: *Chuckles* She called it da “Lazy Susan” I tink...o' course it wasn't so much her move as Vernon's tanks to her size accordin' to hers. I like to call my voision 'Breakdancin'”.

Yuri: *Staring at her in mild shock*

Ada: Hey, sometimes it's fun to trade notes wit da goils, try out some new stuff...see what woiks and what doesn't...

Yuri: W-well damn...*chuckles* I don't think I'm ever gonna look at Dawn the same way again...Although remind me to thank her for teachin' y'all how to er...'breakdance'.

Ada:*Laughs* Shoire ting Babe...

Yuri: *Ahem* Anyway...er...right, back to the topic at paw here. While I don't have any real obligation to indulge y'all....masochists that apparently flock to my brother and sisters blog or...podcast, er whatever...if y'all must know, neither of them pranks would fly...

Ada: A dissolvable police uniform while hilarious, ain't exactly easy to foind, or cheep for dat matter. Needer one of us is made o' money. *Chuckles* I tink Dawn is da big money maker of da family, and even dat is like...uppa middle class. Plus, I'd be doin' my Mookie a dissoivice by not admittin' dat he's a good cop wit a sharp eye.

Yuri: The kind of eye that would spot a phony duplicate uniform a mile away.

Ada: Unless It was da spittin' image.

Yuri: As fer the whole “Male Otter Stripper Prank”...I mean, it's flawed from stage one.

Ada: Yeahs, as much as I hate how open my little Mookie is about his feelin's on otterfolk...I mean, he wouldn't stand for any otters at his stag party, boys or goils.

Yuri: A mammal can have a preference! I just don't find rodent folk attractive! Plus, y'all try keepin' yer head cool about certain species when ninety percent o' yer job involves dealin' with the worst them wet rats have to offer...

Ada: Geeze, would you cool it already! Youse are gonna get Voin and Dawn in trouble talkin' like dat...

Yuri: It serves 'em right. Maybe they'll stop encouragin' strangers to suggest ways to prank me.

Ada: Oh c'mon, if Voin would have had a stag party, youse woulda figured out a ways to slip a male stripper in there.

Yuri: *Snorts* Maybe...O'course even iffin' he didn't went and get tithed so quick, y'all know Vern woulda' been too...sensitive....fur a real stag party. I don't think that pup's ever even stepped foot inside a strip club. When it comes to that stuff, he's always been the biggest stick in the mud. Why do y'all think he took off so quick when the boys we're throwin' my 'make-up' stag party?

Ada: Probably because he was afraid you'd figure out dat he slipped in a cross dressin' wolf in wit da other strippa's you ordered, and didn't wanna be around for the fallout...

Yuri: Wait? WHAT!? Which one!?

Ada: Da one wit da brown fur and da native wolf feadas in his hair.

Yuri:...

Ada: Youse okay dere Mookie?

Yuri: Well Damn. *Chuckles*  Hat's off to that fella...I really couldn't tell. So much for havin' a sharp eye.

Ada: Aww Mookie, he fooled me too...*Cackles*

Ask Kodi and Yukon: Denali and the Divorce


 Kodi: My Dad was always...I mean...

Yukon: Dad was definitely the softy of the family, just like Shackles over here...

Kodi: Hey cut it with the nicknames on this thing! I don't need anyone calling me Shackles on base...unless you want the world to know just why you got the nickname “Dipper”...

Yukon: Shut up dingus! Geeze...alright fine...truce for this question?

Kodi: *Sighs* Truce.

Yukon: Good.

Kodi: Dad's always been a surprisingly warm mammal. I mean, you take one look at him in his full military regalia and you'd probably cross the street just to avoid passing too close to him. But despite his training and discipline, he was always a warm, cuddly Dad.

Yukon: Always made time to read us bedtime stories. Always was the one to pick us up and kiss our boo-boos.

Kodi: And he was always there to talk to about...well, anything. At least when he wasn't at work, and he did everything within his power to give us the best puphood he possibly could.

Yukon: At least when it came to what he could control...

Kodi: Dad was in the North Mammalian Alliance military for pretty much our entire puphood. *sighs* And when they had to move him, he had to go....which meant...we had to go too...

Yukon: It always hurt him when he had to force us all to move... every time.

Kodi: Sometimes he'd cry. Sometimes we'd cry...most of the time we'd all cry. But we really couldn't do anything about it. I mean...Dad had an important job, and he had to keep food on the table...but it still didn't make it any easier...especially during our early teenage years...when Mom left.

Yukon: I suppose that's the one, good thing about us moving around so much. We never stuck in one place long enough for too many of the local wolf families to catch wind of what Mom did to Dad.

Kodi: We're half-blood pups. We tend to lean more into our Norwolff heritage cause it's the more forgiving culture, but neither Native Wolves nor Norwulves have a very...high view of breaking a tithe. And naturally when local families found out about us...they'd usually tell their pups not to hang around with us. That we were...'tainted'.

Yukon: That was the only time I'd ever seen Dad be...really stoic. Really cold. Not to us...but...just generally. You could always see the pain behind his eyes, especially when anyone talked about Aluetia.

Kodi: Yewk, c'mon...at least call her Mom.

Yukon: If she had actually been a mom to us, I would.

Kodi: *Sigh*

Yukon: It took Dad a few years to thaw after she left, but eventually he got back to his old self...well, for the most part.

Kodi: I'm ashamed to admit I didn't make things any easier on Dad during that time...While he was holding everything in about Mom, I was lashing out a lot. *Shakes head* Getting into fights at school, fights with Yewk, even a few fights with Dad. I just remember...telling him how much I hated him for making us move around so much, and how it was his fault Mom left...and he just...he just took it.

Yukon: I remember that fight...Gods...what a nightmare.

Kodi: He just listened. Never raised a paw to slap some respect into me...by the end of it...I was...we both just broke down huggin' and cryin'...I guess he knew I needed to vent, and he just...let me. Even then I knew better. Mom didn't leave because of Dad, or his job. She left because...she wasn't...she didn't know how to be a Mom.

Yukon: *Giggles* I remember peeking into the kitchen after you guys started crying and just...running over and joining the cry huddle.

Kodi: *Chuckles* I can still remember your mascara getting' all over my fur thanks to that. Couldn't get that stain out for a month. Pft, you and your goth phase.

Yukon: Hey! You had your way of coping, and I had mine. Mine was just more...fashionable.


Ask the Foxes: Outfoxing the foxes

 

Nick: It honestly depends on the fox. There are some of us who take...an almost obsessive amount of pride in always being on top of things and ahead of the curve. To outwit a fox like that...eh...it's not a pretty sight.

Val: I take it you've seen a few.

Nick: Once or twice...you meet a lot of foxes in my line of work...unfortunately...You know what gets a fox like that's dander up the most though? Getting outfoxed by a fellow fox. *Laughs* It's the difference between upsetting and absolutely devastating.

Val: So...have you ever been 'outfoxed' then?

Nick: *Laughs* As much as I hate to admit it...yes. By a bunny of all mammals.

Val: Ahh...so that's how Officer Fluffbutt got you huh?

Nick: Completely trounced me...still does it too. Almost daily...I'd be embarrassed if I didn't love her so much.

Val: Jeeze...sounds like that rabbit has your tail in her purse.

Nick: Very funny, but I'll have you know Carrots doesn't have a purse.

Val: Ugh...

Nick: It's a tod's weakness I'm afraid, it doesn't matter what pelt they wear. The one you love is always two steps ahead of your heart. That's just nature...*Chuckles* I imagine it's the same for vixens too...

Val: Yeah, you'd be wrong bucko...

Kodi: Hey S'more, are you still down for the Sam Hain double feature later? They got “The Thing” and “The Shearing” back to back!

Val: Er...yeah, uh..sure...

Kodi: I got some of those chocolates you like too, the cherry cordials?

Val: O-okay, thanks! Can you like, go already dude. We'll meet up later, alright?

Kodi: Okay, Love you...

Val: Uh-huh, great.

Kodi: *Slithers up behind Val, nuzzling under her neckline with his muzzle as he hugs her.*

Val: W-What are you do-!? Stahp!

Kodi: I'm not leaving till I get an “I love you” or-.

Val: Dude, j-just...let go-, not in front of-!

Kodi: *Nuzzles deeper* Say it...

Val: B-Back off or I'll-! I'll bite you! I mean it Ko-!

Kodi: *Snuggles*

Val: *A purr slips out of Val's muzzle before she quickly clasps her paws to her lips in horror.*

Kodi: *Releases his grip, a smug smile crawling across his muzzle as he hastily retreats.* That'll do, see ya S'more.

Nick: *Flashes Val a half-lidded gaze.*

Val: Don't, don't say it...

Nick: What did I say? Two steps ahead of your heart...

Ask the Foxes: Magnetic Fields


 Nick: In my personal experience, it's not so much...'seeing' as it is a feeling.

Val: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say!

Qali: It's like...you can feel directions. And the stuff that kinda, pushes directions around...like other mammals and wildlife.

Nick: It's kind of harder to make sense of as a kit...but as you get older you start to get your bearings for it, and eventually it sort of becomes a...I don't know how to put it? An involuntary compass fixed in your mind. It's always keeping you subconsciously aware of your surroundings, even when you think you aren't paying attention.

Qali: I think the only time I've ever actually 'seen' the magnetic field was the few times me and Trenny visited Wade up in Tundra Town. The aurora borealis is the magnetic field, right?

Val: Pft...yeah...they teach us that in like...fifth grade.

Nick: You know, we foxes get called a lot of things. Thieves, liars, sneaks, cheats...but the one thing you can't call us at any time is lost. We foxes always know where we are. Hell, the Norwulves usually put the foxes among them in charge of navigation.

Val: So if you ever ask a fox for directions and they don't pan out, know that they didn't get it wrong, they just lied to you for fun. *Chuckles*