Ask the Guys; No Nut November

 

Vernon: I guess we're a little late on this one. Granted I don't think any of us have given' that a try. I mean in regards to my brothers anyway. I dunno about maybe...Gus, er' Broomie?

Gus: Yeah, Mellie made sure that was completely impossible. If I even wanted to try it, she'd go out of her way to foil it.

Broomie: Wait, what? Like how?

Gus: I mean, I don't do it. Like I've never done No Nut, but if I ever told Mellie “I think I'm gonna go all Novemeber without rutting”, she would absolutely find a way to make me break that personal bet. It'd be like a challenge for her, and you know how she loves challenges.

Joel: I used to do No Nut November.

Gus: You can't count the years you didn't have a mate, that's just rutting celibacy.

Joel: Uh, hello, I still took care of myself. Geeze, it's like you guys think you can only get off with the help of a Dam. But I mean, taking a month off isn't hard.

Broomie: Considering the games you play, I find that hard to believe dude.

Joel: *Snort* I play other games. It's not strictly Animalme Hentail games.

Vernon: OH wait, Ully might have done No Nut November too...granted I think he purty much did 'No Nut Never' fer the majority of his life...at least till Honey came along.

Gus: *Chuckles* Now there's a daunting and pointless challenge, bedding you mess of a brother.

Found AU; Dorian on Mr. Dice

 

Dorian: Y'all want my honest opinion? I don't like the mammal. Every time I'm even near him my Hunter's intuition starts screamin' at me like there's a five alarm fire brewin' up around me. I can tell he's up to somethin' bad, but fer the life of me I haven't been able to pin the mammal down fer anythin' I've been suspectin' him of. And, as a mammal of the law...I do things by the book, regardless of my...personal feelin's. So until I can get real, hard evidence on the guy, I'm just gonna have to keep as far away from him as possible. And that goes fer my family too...and any mammal I feel might be the kind he'd prey upon. Maybe that last bit y'all could argue is oversteppin' considerin' what I just said, but...I know these folks in the Meadowlands. They're good folks, and I swore an oath to look out fer 'em all. And even if I can't see the full scale of whatever operation he's got goin' on, I owe it to my neighbors to give 'em a heads up.

The way he smiles....*Shudders* It's like...It's a mask...and iffin' y'all look close enough, you can just barely make out all the sins tryin' to crawl out from behind it. Leakin' through the seams. A man hiden' that kinda darkness in him always sees his sins come to bare, one way or another. Mammal's that live like that...well...things don't end well for 'em. Just ask ol' Aster Bellwether...

Ask Gideon; Popular Yule Baked Goods

 

Gideon: might seem kinda straight forward, but our most popular item durin' the whole Yule season would be the classic 'Yule Log'. That's generally a chocolate cake with a sweet cream cheese sorta fillin' and different type o' gnash' on top. O'course we do other flavors, but I mean, most mammals don't celebrate Yule without a classic Yule Log.

Sharla: Coming up second is our peppermint chocolate forest cake. It's your classic dark forest cake with sort of a peppermint bark twist. It's proven very popular around Yule, and a lot of mammals tend to get it as a secondary cake for big family gatherings.

Gideon: Well It'd probably be awkward if everyone in the family brought the exact same Yule log to the get together.

Sharla: After that it's some of the traditional holiday staples, like chocolate chip and sugar cookies.

Gideon: And o'course classic Peppermint Bark. Granted that's barely a baked good. Aside from my 'special' ingredients, y'all just melt white and milk chocolate, miz the white chocolate with peppermint bits, and layer the chocolate together.

Sharla: Simple, but tasty.

Gideon: My lil' Black Forest Cake here is a big fan o' peppermint. She was kinda the inspiration fer the peppermint chocolate forest cake. She suggested it, and it really took off.

Sharla: I wish I was still a big a fan of the idea as I was before we started making it officially. By now I've had so much Peppermint and chocolate my tongue is probably red and white striped. *Giggles*

Ask Audrey: Snarllör Pack

 

  

Audrey: Well, that's cause the last few years my Ma and Pa have been spendin' their retirement years travelin' around Animalia in an ol' RV. It was somethin' my Pa always wanted to do before he kicked the bucket, and my Ma well, she never could say no to my Pa's crazy adventure plans.

Dorian: I imagine she's mostly along for the ride to patch him up then? *Chuckles*

Audrey: Last I talked with 'em on the phone they were up in Nun-a-Vulp trackin' down our roots on the native side of our family.

Dorian: Ain't that mostly arctic mammals there?

Audrey: We got arctic blood in our families veins iffin' y'all go back far enough.

Dorian: That'd explain why Trenny's such a snow dog.

Audrey: As fer the family Ranch in Alpine Glade, my...er brother is currently livin' there. And well, me and Garret never exactly got along very well. Y'all could say we well....we got along a lot like Yuri and Vern used to growin' up.

Dorian: Doesn't help the fella kinda leans more into native wolf beliefs than the rest of the Snarllör pack.

Audrey: Aw now he ain't that bad. He ain't Callin' other wolves Beta's and Omega's and the like.

Dorian: I thought y'all didn't get along! Now yer defendin' him?

Audrey: I'm only gonna call out my kin fer the unforgivable stuff. Like that time he mashes a mudcake into my hair when we was pups!

Dorian: Unbelievable...

Audrey: There were worms in it Dori! WORMS!

Ask Val; The Dunes

 

 

 

Ask Val; Cutest Cookie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask The BellHunters; Hybrid Climate Complications

 

Dawn: Well, to be honest we don't really know yet.

Vernon: Paige is sorta the first...well, first in a long time in terms of really dramatic cross-species hybrids. And considerin' she's just a little over a year old, we're kinda...learnin's stuff as we go.

Dawn: While the door is sort of open now for hybrid lambs and pups and what have you, it's still quite hard to achieve depending on the genetic gap between the parent species. Granted, Paige being born has led to an...*ahem* uptick in mammals trying the old fashioned way more aggressively...at least, if some of the fan slash advice mail is anything to go on. But medical science has just really gotten started figuring things out in terms of hybrids, and I imagine it will take some time for them to create and offer medical procedures that can help with cross-species fertility and viability. I kind of imagine this is the kind of question we'll have more concrete answers for thirty to fifty years from now, when we actually have a number of examples to go by.

Vernon: That said, Paige seems fine...o' course both me and Dawn come from species that basically...share similar climates. Now iffin' Giselle and Wade somehow manage to have a pup...er' cow, er' whatever y'alld call it, maybe there'd be something to worry about.

Dawn: Goodness, can you imagine a ...Girolf? Waffe? It would be so tall...!

Vernon: Or, it'd be real short for somethin' that looked like a giraffe... *Chuckles*

Ask The Group; Heterochromia Iridium

 

 

 

Vernon: I can't say I know anyone with that condition...that's the one when y'all have two different eye colors right? Like one eye is blue and the other is green?

Joel: That's right, you see a lot of characters in Animalme with Heterochromia Iridium.

Gus: Yeah, cause it makes them 'more mysterious' or 'special' right?

Joel: I...would be lying if I said that was untrue. Depending on the anime clichés in place in a series, you can usually figure out if that's going to be a frequent design decision.

Nick: I'm pretty sure I know a mammal who works at the ZFD that has that condition.

Judy: Really?

Nick: It was either him or his mate...I can't entirely recall. It's not like I really enjoy hanging around the ZFD for obvious reasons.

Judy: We still have some pretty bad blood between us and the ZPD after the chili tasting contest fiasco a few months back. There was some...cross division sabotage on both sides and it made tensions between both sides higher than it's ever been.

Nick: And I know what your thinking, and no, I wasn't the ZPD's saboteur.

Judy: I'm kinda surprised Wolford would pull a trick like that. It was so out of left field...

Nick: I guess that rivalry between the ZFD and ZPD ran deeper than even we were aware of. Still, considering there was no telling who would be tasting who's chili, mixing in laxatives into the ZFD's dishes didn't go well for either side. I think it took a day tof hosing down the park just to clear out the stink...

Ask Ulric; Precious Bodily Fluids

 

Honey: Ully is...sort of past that now. I say sort of because he's...well...he's 'solved' the problem in his own 'unique way'.

Ulric: See, I know Honey is on my side. So I know she doesn't mean to steal my essence...

Honey: Uh-huh...

Ulric: It's just an unfortunate side effect of her attempts to properly mind meld with me...mind meld, geeze you guys probably don't understand.

Honey: Ever see Star Trot? The Volkcan mind meld thing? He thinks it's like that.

Ulric: I know it's like that! Except instead of a psychic connection, it's a physical one...that...feels...really...like really really good.

Honey: *Chuckles* I'll say...

Ulric: So while it give us the power to share memories and ideas through rut-melding, it still has the side effect of draining my vitality.

Honey: And calming him down significantly.

Ulric: Exactly! It' dulls my edge! Like those meds work forces me to take! But thankfully with the help of online supplements and caffeine I've been able to counteract the drain, making me even more of a force to be reckoned with.

Honey: It's mostly coffee and some sort of...weird Pandese 'vitamins' that...I'm not entirely trustworthy of. I mean, it says ground up dinosaur bones are a key ingredient in it, and-.”

Ulric: Exactly! It has the essence of the most powerful and vital creatures to ever walk Animalia! It makes me a sexual tyrannosaur!

Honey: Not that he needed help in that department anyway *Giggles* Ully's got stamina for days...

Ulric: The lizard creatures would never expect me to use the DNA of their very own ancestors against them. Clever, clever Ully...

Honey: Clever indeed...

Ask Vernon; Dreadful Company

 

Vernon: Well, first off, when it comes to actually goin' out to the work sites where mammal's er' puttin' my designs to use, I try to avoid goin' as much as possible. Usually I try to send Moira in my place, er' another one of my rodent co-workers. It ain't cause I'm afraid of takin' criticism personally, but I mean...it's a wolf thang. It took me well long enough to get the mammals around the office to look down their muzzle at me as little as they do now. But Goin' out to a work site? It's almost always new mammals, er' ones hired fer this specific job by the company that paid out fer the buildin'. Once they see I'm a wolf, I have to spend the first half hour reassurin' them I am the mammal that designed the buildin', and wait fer 'em to call the office and confirm. After that, it's all the more criticism, more so than they had even called about in the first place. At that point they start diggin' fer stuff to pick at just because I'm a wolf, and they're doublin' up their scrutiny cause they no longer trust the handiwork.

Oh course, in terms of mammals that are a consistent thorn in my side, I suppose I'd have to levy that title at one of the construction managers who gets called to a bulk of my design jobs named Bruce. That badger's been called to enough of my projects that we've come to recognize each other well enough, and while I don't get the impression he's got any species bias against me, the mammal is a damn stickler fer detail. We're talkin' about the kind of mammal who will look at a blueprint, and tell ya that all the molding installation is a eight of an inch too far into the room, and that it needs to be revised with less bulky molding to meet regulatory standards. Or that the slant of the roof is a millimeter above or below safety regulations. He seems like a nice enough fella casually. But whenever I turn up to a worksite and see him standin' there, I know I'm gonna be stress sheddin' like I'm losin' my winter coat by the end of the day.