In the image I was referencing there’s a little orange kitten flat on his back, all four paws straight up in the air nursing away while his sibling sit on him and felt that energy needed to be retained.
Sadly because of the way fluffy mares nurse foals, most chirpies do not get a chance to be as completely lost in the sauce as a puppy or kitten.
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Cat parenting instincts are delightful sometimes. I love when they’re doing things like trying to build a nest for their pregnant humans. Or see a human baby on a mat and start bringing kittens over because obviously the mat is the co-parenting location for the babies. Or when there’s multiple litters of kittens around and they start trying to corral them in a single spot so they can more effectively look after them.
All things that could be amusing to mix with fluffies tbh. I get why people don’t play with it much, but also want to see more people play with it.
I figure because I was directly copying from photos that the photographer did most of the work and I should be clear that I’m not trying to take credit for their work.
Sure, there’s probably a teeny tiny bit of skill in making that look okay, but it would be very disingenuous for me to act like I did most or even just a reasonable part of the work when ultimately most of it originates from the photos used.
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“Welp, guess I’m raising fluffies then” - Owner probably.
I do question where she find those foals and if the mother is still alive?
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Knowing real-world adoption cases, most likely these newborn foals were abandoned or orphaned beforehand, with the cat finding them after.
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Originally my intent was Juniper straight up stole them. Like mum went to get food or ran away because meow-monster and the cat found the nest like “oh sick, free babies!”
But now I’m thinking way too hard about if fluffies have placentas or not and have gone on
a weird biology tangent
about the premise of fluffies being an egg laying animal that develops the eggs internally or, assuming the reason for no placenta is just people not thinking about it, contemplating what if due to being wildly fucked up abominations of science the placenta were basically a hormone bomb to other species that might end up eating it and is the actual reason the cat adopted the babies.
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Very cute, I drew the reverse a while back (mama fluffy with a kitten), I love this idea as a concept.
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Your chirpies are freaky-adorable. More chirpies please.