After taking him to the vet they told me his lumps had become infected and had to be neutered to prevent the infection spreading. They also managed to repair the damage to his asshole after the feral tore it open but will need to have a bandage soaked in medicine taped to his butt for a day or two while it fully heals.
When I picked him up he was still completely messed up from the anesthetics, babbling about whatever popped into his head and trying to fly, insisting that his wingies might be small but he could do it if he tried hard enough. He didn’t seem to hear me when I said he wasn’t a pegasus.
Also, does anyone know the best way to let a fluffy know they’re lumps are gone? I know they get quite distraught if you neuter them when they’re older.
You don’t need the balls to produce seed but it will be harder however. Still be straight to the point on telling him and use the opportunity to assert that it was his fault that his lumps became nuggies
Tell him they are gone because he was a bad, misbehaving fluffy. Say that when a fluffy is a meanie and doesn’t listen to their owner their wumps shrivel up and disappear. This honestly wouldn’t be all that far off from the truth really. To keep his spirits up, and keep him in line, tell him that if he is good he can get his wumps back; and if you are feeling generous, if he is good, get him some neuticles. That way he behaves and you’ll always have an extra thing to threaten him with in addition to not having a home.
Just tell him that you will tell him when it is “time for wumps” but add that only bad fluffies keep asking for wumps and being a bad fluffy is what makes wumps go away.
it will create a paradox for him in which even if he is good the wumps won’t come back. it’s better to just tell him the truth. that way he will forget about them in time. but if you give him hope, he will bug you about them forever
I guess it really all comes down to how smart we think the little guy is. He did come to the conclusion that “babies use the litterbox so when he a grown fluffy he didn’t have to use the litter box.” So we know he got “rules layering” down. So we really just need to get it in his head that “good fluffy = wumps and bad fluffy = no wumps” something real simple like that without any loopholes.
Neuticles as a reward sounds like a good idea. Let him squirm without them for a while so he’ll really know to appreciate you for “restoring” them.
I like the idea of nuticals as a reward BUT i worry it’ll end up with him thinking nutered fluffies are bad fluffies, like how some fluffies who are threatened with getting pillowed if they misbehave then think all amputees are evil.
Why tell him about his lumps? Go back to the vet, get ´em replaced by two small squeak balls and enjoy the show every-time he tries to hump something.
