Ask The BellHunters: Ask the Author; Astrological signs and birthdays

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

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Ask the Author; Astrological signs and birthdays

For the sake of making it easier on myself, I would probably keep the current astrological signs as they are, whilst giving them an animal skew. Like Sagittarius ( Sagittaferus), instead of being a centaur, would be purely a horse. Taurus would be a bull, and Capricorn a goat, and they wouldn't even require a name change. I'd also probably squeeze in the thirteenth official unofficial astrological sign Ophiuchus (Which your's truly's birthday falls under.)

Now as for everyone's birthdays, I don't actually have hard dates for most of them, save for Dawn and Vern. Dawn Evelynn Bellwether was born on March 4th, 1989, making her a Pisces. Her birthdate being March 4th is a nod to the movie release date, but also based on my whole complicated gestation I figured out for wolves, sheeps, and hybrids sholfs in this universe, it plots her conception date to sometime in August which would align with the window for one of the two sheep remnant estrus periods for Clover.

Vernon James Hunter was born on June 14th, 1990, along with his brothers Wade, Trenton, and Ulric. Making them all Gemini's. They were conceived in January, and it wasn't related to any peak sexual hormone period with Auddey.

You're probably noticing that neither of the gestation periods are nine months, as is the standard for humans. But I went and looked up wolf and sheep gestation, then compared them to human gestation, and found the mean number. Wolf gestation is 2 and 1/2 months. So I placed the gestation mean at about 6 months. As for sheep, they have a gestation of about 5 months. So finding the mean there puts sheepfolk at 7 months. For Paige, I found the mean of those two estimates, and put her at 6 1/2 to seven months. Since her birthdate is October 31st, 2022, that puts her conception date in late March, right in line with Dawn's bi-annual remnant estrus. But I've gotten off track.

So yeah, I don't have anyone else's precise dates. I wanna say the first batch of Hunter sons were born the previous August, so 1989. That would make Zach, Yuri and Xavier Leo's. But that's all you're going to get from me for now...I'd have to do some careful time crunching to figure out all the birthdates and make sure they don't cause any story conflicts, and I'm not prepared to do that at the moment. It's something I usually do as the need arises. Thanks for your question!