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fandomhigh2018-08-30 07:22 am
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Fur, Feathers, and Scales: The Biology of Domestication, Thursday, Period 2
Class this week had been told to meet in one of the classrooms, which, like several other classes this year, had been stripped of desks and chairs in order to haul in a large assortment of cushions. And a couch. You better believe Zack moved that couch in all on his own, too.
It also had a playpen in the middle of the room, occupied with about a dozen wrestling, wriggling, happy little puppies.
The much larger puppy at the front of the room wasn't wrestling or doing much wriggling, but he certainly seemed pretty happy about the situation. Even if he had been told to leave his sword at home today.
"Hey, guys!" Zack grinned at the students as they made their way into the room. "I'm Zack Fair, and this is Biology!"
It was so not biology.
"This semester I'm going to pick a new animal every week that people have brought into their lives on the regular, either as companion animals, working animals, or food animals, and we're going to spend some time getting to know them! This week I figured I'd start with the pretty straightforward one. Probably the first thing anyone thinks of when someone says the word 'domestication' is dogs, right?" He moved his hand to the side, his palm resting lightly on the head of a sheltie-type breed who was sitting very politely beside him. "At some point in time, people took a look at an apex predator and said, 'hey, I want to have that wolf as part of the family.' And so... dogs!"
There you go, kids. That was your history lesson. Zack gestured with his free hand toward the playpen.
"We're going to take things pretty easy today," and every other day, "so let's do introductions. Your name, any animal allergies if you have them, why you took this class. And if you aren't allergic to dogs, you can totally introduce yourself while playing with them. They don't get nearly enough love or affection, really."
They got so, so much.
[OOC: Open!]
It also had a playpen in the middle of the room, occupied with about a dozen wrestling, wriggling, happy little puppies.
The much larger puppy at the front of the room wasn't wrestling or doing much wriggling, but he certainly seemed pretty happy about the situation. Even if he had been told to leave his sword at home today.
"Hey, guys!" Zack grinned at the students as they made their way into the room. "I'm Zack Fair, and this is Biology!"
It was so not biology.
"This semester I'm going to pick a new animal every week that people have brought into their lives on the regular, either as companion animals, working animals, or food animals, and we're going to spend some time getting to know them! This week I figured I'd start with the pretty straightforward one. Probably the first thing anyone thinks of when someone says the word 'domestication' is dogs, right?" He moved his hand to the side, his palm resting lightly on the head of a sheltie-type breed who was sitting very politely beside him. "At some point in time, people took a look at an apex predator and said, 'hey, I want to have that wolf as part of the family.' And so... dogs!"
There you go, kids. That was your history lesson. Zack gestured with his free hand toward the playpen.
"We're going to take things pretty easy today," and every other day, "so let's do introductions. Your name, any animal allergies if you have them, why you took this class. And if you aren't allergic to dogs, you can totally introduce yourself while playing with them. They don't get nearly enough love or affection, really."
They got so, so much.
[OOC: Open!]
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"It was terrifying," Tip said. "It was starving and really pretty sure I was dinner. There's a reason why lions haven't been domesticated."
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Given their back half being leonine, and all.
"For what it's worth, I'm glad you weren't eaten. We definitely won't be having any lions in this class. Just much smaller cats."
Tiny house tigers.
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"Those I can handle." Even when there hundreds and hundreds of them all at once.
Or hundreds and hundreds of one cat in particular, anyway.
"I've heard baby goats are really cute, too."
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He had so many chickens at the shelter.
So many.
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"Chickens!" Tip said, though she was more bemused than excited.
She wasn't much of a bird girl. But maybe that would change if she actually met one?
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He shrugged.
"At least we're never running low on eggs, though?"
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". . . People are really stupid, aren't they," Tip said with a sigh.
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Tip thought of how many people had wondered to her over the years if J.Lo was a pet. Never mind that his species was sapient enough to have successfully taken over the planet.
"Yeah," she said. "I bet."