As someone with experience with wildlife conservation, once a species is established in an area it is next to impossible to eradicate them. There are also a few things that would prevent the chemicals in the water plan from working, mainly that there are literally millions of water sources that the fluffies could drink from and it would be impossible to dose each source. Second, and most importantly, there is absolutely no way that adding a chemical sterilizing agent to the water would be allowed by government or private institutions, especially by conservation groups due to the possible risks it could pose.
But if we ignore all those factors, it comes down to how long a fluffy lives in your headcanon. If no Fluffies are able to reproduce, then it Is only a matter of waiting for all the fluffies to die.
I think the big thing is if they spread out they’ll eventually find niches throughout. High birth rate would likely keep up with predation. If enough can survive to pass on knowledge then they’ll be harder to actually eradicate.
Places with truly miserable extremes in weather would likely have less problems, heat or cold. Places that aren’t as bad? They’ll linger the most there. For instance, when I lived in Georgia the summers sucked but weren’t the worst, and the winters were very mild. They’d likely have population booms and busts.
The point of the story I’m writing is that a small number actually were mostly immune, with a very small handful of mares only capable of ever producing one offspring in their entire lives. Now that they are classified as extinct, if they are found they are considered rare and valuable to certain people just like other recalled toys.
Also you seem to be putting maybe too much realism into your answers and reasons. It’s a universe where talking horse biotoys are a normal thing
Here in Hawai’i they’d be dangerous I think. We have neither the heat nor the cold, stuff is growing year round, very few native predators, most native plants don’t have many defenses (thorns, poisons, whatever) compared to other plants around the world, etc. Lots of formerly agricultural land, forests, rainforests, etc, for them to hide in.
We’ve got feral chickens and cats all over the place as is.
Ah, gotcha.
If your story is smart and responsible human filled? Within a year is possible provided they commit the resources.
If it’s the usual assortment of fluffy humans? Never. They’d rather harass and massacre them than eradicate them.
I would love such changes in setting. Seeing them in an American neighbourhood/forest have became stale a long time ago. That’s why Muthu and stories from a secret Russian library are so special to me
Legally the extermination is basically a toy recall
That’s actually part of the story, the fluffies that still live need to have somewhere to hide
Where did they manage to hide if not in the middle of American wilderness?
I’m thinking an abandoned building in a dead forest, a place people only go to for ghost sightings or dystopian pictures. Unlike the normal forested places, food is scarce as the forest died long ago and the only trees are dry and brittle. The only real shelter is the dilapidated structure that used to have some use a century ago.
I DON WIKE DEM PUTTIN CWEMICULS IN DA WATER, DA TURN DA FWICKEN FWUFFIES GEY
If you want to have fluffies hidden in an area where they’re not likely to be found, you could always use the limestone caverns. There are thousands of uncharted ones in the north east of the US, and it’s unlikely they would be found if they used one as their shelter
As much I don’t want to be that guy but isn’t that the conceit of the question? Unless you already have an answer in your head and just putting out the question to just fish for interest isn’t it the point that we’re answering the question in a “realistic”/headcanon form?
I suppose, but I want there to be some leeway for creativity considering the things that are canon. I had thought it would be possible at some point for people to be able to use the chemical in the same way rain forms naturally, instead of a piece of dust or other particle for the water vapor to cling/freeze to before growing too heavy and falling. The chemical would spread everywhere the rain landed, and this along with putting it in as many water sources as possible.
I had figured a chemical that caused 99.999999999999999% infertility to fluffies only would be the best way to create a world where these type of fluffies are like finding a living Tasmanian tiger or one of a limited pieces of a super famous recalled product, but you’re welcome to offer suggestions.
i think the only wrong with your plan is that you wouldn’t be able to get a high enough concentraition of the chemical for it to affect the fluffys in any significant way, the chemical would become to diluded over to large an area, especialy if you don’t know exactly were they are, for it to properly work you would need docens if not hundreds of tons of the chemical for it to have a good effect every time a herd is located, and at that point the manufactoring of the chemical it’s transportation and deployment would likely become more expensive than the fluffys themselves.
Well like I said I’m open to suggestions on how to get to the point where I want to be in the story.
What are hasbio and the government able to do to get to where fluffiest could be considered extinct, but there is still a population of literally a dozen left in the world?
My headcannon:
Fluffies can live up to 10 years.
In some rare cases a fluffy has managed lived up to 15 years.
But only if taken good care of.
But In the wild i would say the avaredge age that they die is 4-5 years.
But to teds fluffies, to them applies only cartoon logic, so they can be alive even after 100 years. Because cartoon logic!
In this story normal fluffies live about 10-15 years if taken proper care of, ferals only 3 or 4 at most. However, the replacements will live as long as normal horses.
Yes.
2 days, take it or leave it. 