yes, but that depends on good parents, and those are in short supply.
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More kids drinking from belts and being beaten with the garden hose! Ironically we’re outsourcing childcare to nonhuman entities, potentially fluffies themselves even.
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So, you meant “vermin” or “pest”.
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No, they’re like rodents rodents. Like the main genetic bases are the Capybara, guinea pig and Chinchilla, if there is any non mammal dna it would probably be either parrot or raven. If they were mostly birds or non mammals then pet dinosaurs and dragons would’ve come first. Especially if you want foals to be “cute”.
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Vocal minorities are a huge waste of air, but my point stays the same. I don’t see brown fluffies being less popular, I see your average person taking it as a point of pride same as owning a mutt is to some people. Going back to if we assume fluffies are priced similarly to dogs or cats, I see the majority of people getting “common” fluffies.
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At most I’d see it the same as how I see cats, I love my orange tabby (the most basic cat ever) I like looking at Egyptian cats, but my tabby was free.
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That foal makes me want to protect it.
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Rat llama.
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In mine, they were based on birds first (crows specifically). Though rats do make more sense, may need to tweak it.
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The difference between hairless mammals and featherless birds is that mammals have more form fitting coats so stuff like Mexican Hairless dogs and sphynxes are still cute in a weird way because they still look like dogs and cats. Birds by contrast have skeletons that look nothing like their normal appearance because so much of their external shape is determined by feathers.
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which of these would you rather pet?
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Yeah I think I’ll change mine to be rat based.
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Thing is, I have chickens, I had one that had a bad molding problem. Hits home for me, but if course the dog.
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Y’know, this argument is already solved by the entire fluffypony phenomena itself… hundreds of thousands of images, comics, and stories, that play out brown fluffies as undesirable. Where browns are accepted a context is established to explain why, “mumma luv aww babbies”, or most often an owner using a brown fluffy as a tool and “object lesson”. There is consistently a plot or theme device indicating why the brown fluffy is being honored.
There is rarely any reasoning applied why vivid, primary, and pastel fluffies are the focus (the accepted norm), but browns get to have a background purpose stated. It has been described at length throughout the years, and right here.
It is the policy through predominance, it is like questioning why the right-or-left side of the road is driven on (not accepting that leads to disaster), why systems still operate on printed paperwork such as printed shopping receipts, why socks are worn with shoes, why one candidate not the other gets voted into office and vocal minorities scream loudly in protest.
And anyway, this is black history month. 
shouldn’t the community be plagued with brown fluffies right now?
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To start, that went places. Secondly, black history month shouldn’t be a thing, in my opinion, black history should be a year-round event. Reducing it to the shortest month is silly to me, not to mention the original reason it was reduced to the shortest month. But back to fluffies, I couldn’t agree more with what you said, it’s a plot device at this point. But nothing was learned from saying whatever.
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But it’s fun to ask why, also the black history month joke is a bit tasteless and that’s coming from a guy whose joke catalogue relies heavily on bestiality, nihilism, cartoon characters dying in gory explosions, totalitarian propaganda and child sacrifice.
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Ad hominem attack, that’s lovely.
The issue with “black history month” is the same as “Justify the Color Hierarchy to me!”.
It is a massively complex argument that only leads to conflict with each party claiming the higher ground with most participants ravenously holding to a tiny singular idea.
This has succeeded in its design as a troll topic.
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Reign it back a little, this is a polite discussion that somehow turned to race (how is beyond my understanding) but the fact is I agree with Mr. Freeman, though I feel it would be best to shift the subject back to its intended purpose. We aren’t trying to change hearts and minds here.
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