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minus-squareParabolicMotion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down3·8 months agoI don’t think those animals would be stitched together with cloth and stuffed with cotton, either.
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·8 months agoI came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-28 months ago they are toy animals, not real ones A couple of them were real animals, and this is reflected in the stories. The two characters are Owl and Rabbit. In one of the stories, one of them says to the other “You and I have brains, the others have fluff”.
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoTrue, but Owl and Rabbit weren’t mentioned. They do complicate things, since Owl and Rabbit shouldn’t get along unless Owl happens to be too small for Rabbit to consider him a threat.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoIn their case, you can’t play the “stuffed animal” card, but you can still play the “anthropomorphized” card that all the others can as well. Animals that are able to reason and talk to one another are less likely to consider each other prey.
I don’t think those animals would be stitched together with cloth and stuffed with cotton, either.
I came here looking to see if anyone would point out that they are toy animals, not real ones.
A couple of them were real animals, and this is reflected in the stories.
The two characters are
Owl and Rabbit.
In one of the stories, one of them says to the other “You and I have brains, the others have fluff”.
True, but Owl and Rabbit weren’t mentioned.
They do complicate things, since Owl and Rabbit shouldn’t get along unless Owl happens to be too small for Rabbit to consider him a threat.
In their case, you can’t play the “stuffed animal” card, but you can still play the “anthropomorphized” card that all the others can as well. Animals that are able to reason and talk to one another are less likely to consider each other prey.