A fluffy is somewhere like an attic or an unfinished basement for whatever reason, when it sees what looks like a soft pink blanket or stuffy friend poking out of the walls.
Fluffy gives huggies to said soft pink thing.
Hilarity ensues.
I don’t know if this has already been done before, but I just wanted to share it in case someone likes the idea and gets inspired by it.
From experience handling glass wool, you don’t notice the ultrafine cuts until you get your hands wet later (especially if you get something acidic on your hands like orange juice or something).
A fluffy wouldn’t get anything from giving fibreglass insulation, except for a sore throat/nasal passage, escalating up to bronchitis-like symptoms from long term exposure, which would clear up once removed from the fibreglass.
Now if it were a herd of ferals living in an old abandoned building using asbestos insulation as stuffy friends or nest lining…
Ah, I didn’t know that! I guess I thought it was more dangerous than it is because of my parents warning me as a kid not to touch it. They said it’d make my hands super itchy.
That asbestos idea is something I’d love to see. >:)
Idea - Glass is pulverised into a fine powder and added to a Fluffy’s spaghetti dinner. Over several meals the Fluffy unknowingly shreds its throat, stomach and bowels until it starts shitting blood.
I’m not sure how feasible it is but they did it on Oz and I base all realms of realism on HBO shows.
There was a comic that describes this perfectly but im trying to find it. It involved a mare that ran away from home into the attic with her foals but couldnt find food so she thought the pink fiberglass insulation was food… trying to find it to link it here lol
I remember seeing a mini comic of a mare and her foals getting into a building, the mare thinking the wall padding and basically bled to death and was found dried up from it and her foals dead.
Depends on how finely the glass is ground, but if it’s as fine as sand, it won’t do anything, much like eating a mouthful of sand.
Anything coarser than that, most people/animals would just spit it out as their teeth would mostly likely grind on it.
Looking up some references for this, Sir Thomas Browne recorded in his book, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, that he fed a dram’s worth (~3.6 mL) of ground glass to dogs mixed up in butter and paste, and it didn’t cause them any visible harm.