Yup, and then they realize why the fluffy cost five bucks.
Would you make that mistake twice?
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Possibly, I guess it depends on how one views fluffies. If you get 5 years our of a Fluffy you purchased for 30$ but a breeder fluffy of the same grade costs 800$ to get 8 years out of it; the economic choice is to go with the cheaper one. Parent’s who may be buying for their children, will be more inclined to spend the 30$ and reuse the previous fluffy’s toys, than go for the super premium breeder fluffy. We make decisions based on opportunity cost with nearly every action, so I suspect when it comes to fluffies it is no different.
Honestly the best bet would be to adopt a Shelter Fluffy (like in real life). But Pet stores are a more pleasant experience usually, without having to deal with the sad fluffies that need a home (when you can only take one, and the clock is ticking). Its a broken system, but alas as long as someone is willing to pay for the service, it will exist.
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How long do you think a $5 fluffy lasts?
Odds are, the cheaper a fluffy is, the more likely there’s something wrong with it, and there’s a good chance you won’t notice until you’ve already bought the fluffy.
It’s practically a scam.
Plus, there’s also the possibility that they don’t bother to train the cheaper fluffies, so there’s also that to deal with.
30 bucks for a fluffy who shits on the rug because you won’t give him sketties is a bad deal. I’d rather just pay more for a fluffy who is less likely to shit all over the place to spite me.
And how much does it cost to get the rug cleaned? See, you gotta take the expenses of the fluffy’s misbehaviour into account, too.
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You never know how long something can last, we don’t have a baseline to know as there is no confirmed tier list. All we have to go on is our own head canon in that regards.
Though that is true and the cheaper the fluffy the more likely it is a scam, but that’s sort of the point of Industrial Abuse works isn’t it? Its not a good situation for the fluffies, because they’re ultimately being viewed as a commodity, than they are a living thing.
I assume any foal you get will need to be trained, because they’ve only been alive for so long. They would probably be easier than an older fluffy, which has had more time to develop bad habits and traits. Most likely, the cheaper fluffy the more training it may need. Which isn’t always a bad thing, considering you may also buy from a certified breeder but end up with a complete dud. Personality is not always something you can control in a pet.
To be brutally honest, I think that’s a bit beyond the scope. Yes, a fluffy may shit and ruin a carpet, but this is assuming the person also hasn’t made them a saferoom or if they’ve been taught how to use the litterbox. Misbehavior is hard to quantify or assign an expense too, its a huge variable.
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Is that a stomped alicorn in pen with her?
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None are stomped, just deformed or stillborn.
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On the other hand, a foal might be harder to raise, especially for a first time owner, and especially if they’re still unweaned. The smart thing for a new owner to do is to get a well-behaved adult fluffy, and then maybe later breed them when they’re more experienced.
And the best way to get a well-behaved fluffy is buying them from a reputable store, and not a mill. I’d say that brain development plays a big role in whether or not the fluffy will behave or not, just look at the correlation between low IQ and crime. And yanking an unweaned/barely weaned foal from his mummah will definitely do some damage. Plus, do you think the mills care about proper nutrition? I think they’d just plop down a bowl of cheap kibble and say “shut up and eat or go hungry”. Nutrition plays a role in brain development, as well.
Of course, some people do just fine starting off with a weaned foal.
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Holy shit that’s bleak. My theory was she killed them out of some sort of institutionalization related craziness where she is trying to stop from having her babies taken. But your take is even grimmer.
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They aren’t very tall.
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Look at how happy she isn’t.
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Makes sense to me that breeders would do it, given the general explanation of why they spoil a baby and why they abuse or kill others is programming to simplify the job of Hasbio breeders.
Keep them in a state of depression but not misery, and the attention given to the Bestest would just be standard attention and not likely produce a Hellgremlin. She’ll starve or cull the lesser colors herself.
Sure, they may cull Alicorns. But the mill may find it a better investment to just let that happen rather than go through the effort of hiring inspectors, keeping staff to raise Alicorns with Milkbags, and so on. If they find a mother who got one to survive to collection day it would be a bonus in profit, but I doubt she would be rewarded in any way. I also doubt they’re going to go through the effort in tracking how many of what color is produced either, finding it more efficient to just let them produce whatever they choose to spare and sell what they make. With a purely efficient breeding operation you’re mostly just paying for water and the process of recycling their shit back into food, which could be cheap as fuck. The biggest cost is labor and rent, the former being why you keep as few workers as possible and the latter being not too expensive since you could operate just about anywhere that you can ship Foals from.
This image to me just looks like abuse purely through neglect. No pain or screaming, just depression, ennui, and scheduled heartbreak.
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The foals must flow
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That actually makes sense. Could lead to foal-stealing if a mare has “too few” foals or lost all of hers. Or yet another biological impulse driving her to having babbehs.
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Cry for your bestesh, cry when they’re gone , cry no more when your gone.
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They way I have it worked out, is it was a deliberate choice by Hasbio when making the fluffies for this to work in such a way. Fluffies after all have child like intelligence, so it was an extra step in ensuring mares would actually take care of their foals (in addition to specific pheromones). The more I explore the concept of fluffies, the more I tend to write them as a creature designed for extreme dependency in one way, shape, or form.
I figure it would explain why some “Poopie Babbehs” are even kept alive as long as they are. A Few drops of milk, for another hit of serotonin. Once they don’t need to nurse, they’re one their own. I’m still working the idea out, (though it seems people are generally not enjoying my concepts or ideas throughout the fandom, lol).
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Its on the harsher, colder side of plausible reality. I think as such its real-worldness is (understandably) upsetting. I quite like it, but much like cyberpunk or post-apocalyptic fiction? I wouldn’t want to actually live there. But I’m a hug-boxer when I’m happiest. You get my gears turning, which isn’t bad at all. I quite like that, actually.
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I’m glad you enjoy. I go for sad box personally myself (with some hug and abuse sprinkled in). I can understand your point of view on it, but its why I take the approach that I do when writing the content that I do.
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When you get into abuse, industrial, etc., it tends to get intellectual. Abuse for the sake of abuse doesn’t do it for me. If its saying something or poses an interesting situation that’s something else. Some of the things I’ve made were “answers” to “problems” others have come up with, after all.
And certainly, it got me wondering how much of our own parenting instincts depend on chemical reinforcement. Then you can ask “what can interfere with that” or “what can distort that”? Hell, I’ve been on paxil for… 12 years now? Brain chemistry is powerful stuff. Having it not quite right? EGAD.
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