you can rip their legs off whit your bare hands i think the world is safe from them
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no more dangerous than a bunched up rug
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That was it. It covers that the bodies piled up and blacked a major storm drain which would be damming to the infrastructure. Thanks for finding it.
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They can be like a puppy and under you and trip you up the same, but I wouldnât think they would because they run the risk of being crushed under their owners weight.
Iâd see them as a tripping hazard, especially if you have limited mobility, or are already frail. Their small size, combined with their clinginess would make them dangerous for the elderly. Iâm thinking that thing where cats like to walk between your legs when youâre walking. Old person has a fluffy, the fluffy gets a bit over excited, tries to hug the old personâs legs when theyâre walking, and then they fall. The fall may be made worse if the fluffy has scardy poopies, and now that person is laying in vile shit. Can see them being banned outright from old folks homes, with staff making sure that no fluffy can enter the facilities. Maybe even fences around the grounds.
With urban ferals, dying in the sewers and clogging them with their corpses is a concern. General pest behavior as well, although I donât see them surviving too well in the winters. They were designed for life indoors, and theyâre not panting all the time, so their fluff canât be that insulating. So if you live in a city where below freezing nightly temperatures is common in the winter months, there will probably be a large die off of feral fluffies.
For rural ferals, one thing that hasnât been discussed is predation by regular animals. Assuming animals like eating fluffies in your headcanon. Sight based predators would have a field day with standard fluffies, birds of prey especially. When your eyes are evolved for spotting a rabbit from the air, a hunter orange, or bright purple, slow moving, noisy fluffy would be an easy meal. Would need a big eagle to take out adults, but adolescents and foals would be easy pickings for hawks. The time where a fluffy wishes it was poopie. Could also have feral herds comprised mostly of earth tones and dark green fluffies, natural selection being what it is, assuming they last long enough to breed. I can also see owls snatching foals and adolescents that happen to be out on their own. Or ones sheltering in a barn. This might have unforeseen consequences with a population boom of regular prey animals.
I donât see herds in the wilderness or even rural areas lasting too long. Fluffies are made to be indoor toys, theyâre not going to be doing much digging with their soft leathery hooves. Ferals will have tougher hoof pads than your average pet fluffy for sure, but theyâre not horse hooves. Theyâre also REALLY dumb, so expect deaths from accidents to increase with any group of fluffies not managed by a human, regardless of where they are. Temperature extremes would also do a number on them. I donât see a herd of fluffies lasting long in a hot desert, a day or two tops before they all die of thirst or overheating.
So yeah, watch out for tripping over a fluffy, especially on stairs, donât get one for your 93 year old grandma, and make sure they donât clog your water treatment system.
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I think its more a matter of âthey make a great plot device for unintended consequences!â
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Where Iâm located in Central CA, Ferals, runaways, and lost pet fluffies definitely wouldnât survive in the valley for long. The winter months are cold, wet, rainy (when thereâs a not a drought) theyâd easily freeze at night during December to February, where freeze advisories are common. Not to mention the âTule fogâ that envelopes the valley with itâs low visibility (sometimes the fog is really low visibility like less than 5 feet at times!), Sometimes the fog doesnât lift until noon the following day only to roll back in early afternoon. Fluffies would be easily lost and disoriented if they walking in it, probably in circles around neighborhoods and even worse when they start getting out in the rural areas & farm lands.
In the fog fluffies would being easily ran over because while they can hear the cars but have no idea where a vehicle is coming form until itâs too late. Not to mention this is where all the major farms are; farmers and their workers wouldnât care if a pet fluffy or feral fluffy herd is on their property definitely be shooting and killing fluffies the moment they are on or around the farmers property they wouldnât waste with them.
But the real killer of fluffies would be the summer weather, this is where theyâd die en mass. The summers in the central valley start to get hot around mid to late April and early May (like low 90âs F / 32â C) and really start heating up in mid May to early June where temps start to rise to 100â (37â C) and then thereâs long stretches of high temps up to 105â - 110â ( 40â - 43â C) during the months of June to Mid September, when it starts to cool down back to the 90âs before cooling off in October for a bit only to get cold again.
So if thereâs feral or lost pets roaming in the day time, and walking on the sidewalks or asphalt their soft hooves would practically melt! Not to mention theyâd die of dehydration and exhaustion in the valley heat it would be pretty ugly. It gets worse if the actually make it to the foothills and further up the terrain, predators, people who take their privacy and property very seriously and hate trespassing, and wildfires would wipe them out.
This is just a reference for walking dogs, so for fluffies theyâd be so much worse off.
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Yeah, I can see ferals wandering onto asphalt, and especially recently escaped/dumped domestics getting severe burns on their feet. Maybe on their bodies too, when they fall over. I donât imagine the fluff being that thick or protective. If you have a pet fluffy and it needs surgery or something as simple as having something really sticky like gum or maltose syrup stuck in its fluff and needs a shave, theyâre going to have a bad time in the summer. Can only imagine how quickly their bare skin would burn.
Speaking of fog, I can imagine mirages affecting fluffies like theyâre in an old Loony Tunes. Simple highway mirage of water would encourage a thirsty herd to run to the water, only to not understand why itâs not there. Of course, will suffer attrition from vehicles if they are doing it on an actual highway. Even without getting hit by a car, the increased activity of running in the heat would probably knock out a few of the thirstier members of the herd, or at least ensure that they wonât make it to the next day.
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its a bit tied in with the poop but personally i think litterpals could be fair dangerous seeing as basicly only eating feces along with being not only surronded but covered in feces could lead to a super virus or bacteria or something along those line do to the fact they most likly dont have a very good immune system. and depending on the headcannon how they stablised the dna or if human dna was used new plagues could pop up leading to whole issues around that.
those this is more around the humans in the fluffy world the amount of serial killers and domestic abusers r probly fairly high
Depends on the canon. Early Fluffy canon is they have super immune systems, and you can literally press the limb from another Fluffy into a stump once scar tissue is removed and it will slowly attach regardless of blood type or age.
Later canon keeps this without really outright stated it by virtue of mentioning the instant clotting or immunity from infections.
Like most Fluffy biology, they are immune until they arenât.
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yes it can depend on the headcannon but atleast most of the stuff ive read and seen litterpals often atleast it seems that way tend 2 be fluffys with issues already, ie runts, deformed, ext. which could have just as many issues on the inside as they do the outside
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But those are some of the most dangerous things!
Lead paint, radioactive materials, jumping boots that can cripple you, throwing knives, handheld firecrackers, printed full-body plastic bags for costumes, a boat with small print that it cannot float for long, capguns that catch fire in your pocket, and so on.
A LOT of it releases by Hasbro. Including the original Flubber goo, which was mysteriously toxic and caused severe skin lesions and vascular issues and the recalled product her to be buried because whatever the fuck was in it was illegal to burn or dump in the ocean in the 60âs, suggesting it also had radioactive compounds or mercury.
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Except a fluffy is none of those things,
A Fluffy is a satirical take on Hasbro marketing MLP merchandise by combining it with the robotic toy trends like Furbies and Dinkies. Mostly Dinkies.
What it originated as is just someoneâs AU about the cast of MLP but they are all pets.
So it only makes sense Fluffies have potential as an organic Grey Goo scenario.
Oh, I mean, richer cities will just upgrade everything in order to make it âFluffyproofâ at some degree at least. That and some quality exterminators in part of public cleanings and you got a normal human city.
Where it can be worse though, may be in the poor cities of developing countries. Where infrastructure and money is a problem and âfluffyproofingâ everything is almost impossible. In some rural areas, people might make a system to get rid of fluffys. But thanks to their stupidity, I highly doubt they will survive in the real world. Guaranteed there will be herds in some rural, less human dense areas where Abusers and predators may be scarce or non-existent ( and plenty of food).
Also, since theyâre an unfinished product, it will be interesting to see how they interact with climates over the world ( very hot or very cold places being almost uninhabitable for them, making fluffys a rich people pet, due to the cost of keeping the sucker alive) and how different cultures may react to them (like latinoamerica, some communities may just ban them altogether)
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it really doesnât they have been shown consistently to be organic and not very good at living let alone defying the laws of thermal dynamics to become a run away self replicating fantasy
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Despite being too weak to harm humans, a few stories from the booru have fluffies intentionally killing / seriously injuring humans. These involve either weaving through the legs of old people on stairs in order to trip them over, or clogging up a road to make someone swerve to avoid and crashing. If the victim survived they were incapacitated, and the herd would swarm them to beat them (still doing nothing), shit on them (infecting wounds), or smother them.
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I can hear Foxhoarder cringing from this rn
Fuck. I may take this fora horror story.
A Smarty realizing a car can only plow through so many Fluffies, or swerves to avoid debris, with Fluffies eating crash victims.
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In the story they were after the womanâs groceries not her. Story ends with her widower husband turning full abuser, and when they tried the same stunt with him he plows straight through them.
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