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I hope Matthew parents are ashamed of themselves.
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My cousin was born like that, unfortunately- his mother has and may always be a slave to the heroin needle. Fortunately, my uncle was eventually able to get and stay clean of drugs and has stepped up to be a good dad to my cousin. But its still rough to know your mom would rather go to jail for armed robbery than get clean so she could at least visit you, I am sure.
I’ll also say that very few stories about fluffies used in medical testing ever utilize the fact that fluffies tend to almost uncontrollably talk about how they feel as a way to figure out what the various medications/pesticides/etc are doing to them. Its a pretty good idea!
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I wish everything good to your family or relatives expect his mom, till she jumps from the needle.
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This is so sweet, good lil fluffs
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Depends on the type of testing in my opinion.
In toxicological studies, they could tell you where it hurts but wouldn’t be able to tell you how much it hurts (pain doesn’t exist on an objective scale), plus the fluffy would still have to be dissected/autopsied and their tissues tested in order to figure out how the drug/chemical affected them, even if the testing didn’t kill them (long term tox as opposed to acute tox).
Also most regulatory bodies require testing on two animal species, one non-rodent, before it can be let anywhere near a first in man clinical trial, so at best, it only halves the amount of non-fluffy deaths.
If anything, the suffering would be worse - it’s one thing to watch a mouse undergo stress behaviours as it suffers either from the study or as it’s euthanised, it’s entirely another to hear a subject with a child-like voice beg you to help it as it’s in pain, or hear it crying out in panic as it dies.
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Wonderful work,I’m a big fan of the “fluffies aren’t hellgremlins,actually” genre. If fluffies were real,I definitely think they would be revolutionary to the mental health field.
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Fair points.
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Fluffy subspecies could be a viable addition as test subjects if variety is needed. Hell, in a universe where fluffies’ existence is even possible in the first place, there’s nothing that says some other artificial creation couldn’t be created and used.
I’d much rather a living toy suffer than a natural animal. Doesn’t matter if it can talk. Unlike real animals, fluffies would actually exist for humans to do whatever with because they’re 100% unnatural. Even domestic animals are still natural because they have natural, wild ancestors and were bred from those animals rather than grown in a toy company’s lab.
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This whole thing is incredibly sweet and cute.
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It really is, I hope it’s something more people explore.
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This warmed my heart
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While I agree with you, the more fanatical parts of the animal rights activist community and the fluffy hugboxers wouldn’t.
Even if data from fluffies was ruled as insufficient due to their chimeric genome, they’d still be useful as a fast screening test before it goes into real animals.
This is all for drug and chemical testing though - there’s plenty of other testing involving animals that aren’t fatal for them, for which fluffies would be ideal as test subjects since they can communicate with the researchers.
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