"An animal can choose to starve." Lil' typo there. I love this comic. Never stop. <3

Ah, but what happens when prey kill? They don't eat the meat, they just kill it, skin it, wear it. ;3

that rabbit looks so fucking smug, it pisses me off.

You mean the squirrel?

Shit, I thought it was a rabbit too for some reason, but the ears clearly give it away. Huh, wonder how many people thought it was a rabbit?

Don't forget the giant floofy tail.

Granted, it does say in a couple of earlier pages that he's a squirrel, not to mention the tags/keywords. But there are rabbits with the short little ears and if you miss the other clues, it's easy to mistake the body type and face for a rabbit.

and....this comic will become such an amazing drama so fast....many hearts and some souls will shatter.....expect some serious tears here, folks. this is officially farthingwood animals territory....and i like the idea.

Oh geez, that show. All I know of that cartoon is what I've seen in a few clips on youtube, but good lord that show doesn't pull any punches. As bad as Watership Down. Both stories show the true gritty brutality of the world, but that's what makes them more gripping and spectacular. When you, the reader, become so attached to the characters that their trials, tribulations, and ultimate fates actually affect you on an emotional level, it's a sign that the writer has succeeded in creating a good story.

yep. it's anime's ALL ANTHROS MUST DIE trope, done right. farthingwood animals was really sad at times, but, very well written.

as for this comic...i already have a list of three characters i know will die. wont give names...but.....they have leomon written all over them. i just will read the story and see how it happens. cus, so far. it's a good story.

I hated how Leomon always died! For that matter, I loved Wolf's Rain until everybody died at the end. Then I swore off anime for an entire year, I was so pissed off and heartbroken.

yep. i quited on anime for good after crap like digimon tri or hunter x hunter.....i want anthro characters, not cannon fodder, so, american animation is doing a great job on that, zootopia, mao mao, regular show and others...there's crap like final space...but....that thing is over. so i dont care.

but, again, on the case of this story, yeah, a bodycount is to be expected, and that bodycount will hurt us all, cus we care about these guys.....i am very sure which characters will die....based on anime tropes......i am sure all of you know who will go first. so...we better wait for it...and enjoy his presence the best we can.

I don't watch a lot of anime and I don't know the tropes, so I'm not sure how the "final body count" will fit into your final calculations-- but we'll see! ;]

yep.
and again. unlike most anime with anthros today, the writer of this story already made it clear that there will be casualties. i mean, the tragedy is announced. this is not a comedy, this is a drama, and i respect that. unlike boy and the beast's stupid death of kumatetsu, out of nowhere and without any actual logic besides the crappy "death is a part of life, so kumatetsu had to die" bs. in this story....yeah, death is meant to happen. and man......if the character i think will die, actually does....DEAR LORD, RIVERS WILL BE CRIED. have the kleenex ready, folks....just saying

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#IfEggDiesWeRiot

yeah a sick animal might choose to starve itself. best pitch to all those vegans and anorexia people out there.

Don't be a dick Squirrel.

I am actually hoping Rask marries the squirrel. :D

Yeah, everyone wants Rask and Egg to be an item, but I'm gunnin' for him and Sprig. =}

Thirded! But is the squirrel a boy?

I believe so, but I'm going by everyone's comments, and also, the line on this page here: https://www.furaffinity.net/full/32295340/ - "He is very smart, not like the wolves." Though, she could have meant Oren.

lol, Sprig looks too old :D

Small mistake, the title says PG109, but this is PG110.

I really like this comic and your art style :3

Whups--Got that fixed! Thanks! :]

Considering squirrels will eat the flesh off the dead (including their own kind) there’s enough blame to go around.

That food talks a lot.

Loving the dilema, it's the food chain, ignoring it could mean death

What a hypocrite, if you stand back and look at it, the herbivores are hypocrites through and through, they kill plants, insectivores kill bugs, they all kill something to live, this is why I have problems with vegetarians and vegans.

That's moving the goalposts a lil'.

Is it? Sometimes I honestly can't tell.

Well they aren't objecting to the act of eating meat so much as they are the act of eating sapient beings, specifically other herbivores.

In much the same way I imagine we'd dislike being around cannibals.

It's not the meat eating itself that's the issue, as seen with the Squirrel being entirely chill about the idea of Rask eating fish and even congratulating him on what he sees as a clever strategy in using bugs to bait fish to the surface.

Hm I suppose so, but they way some of them are treating creatures is going to bite them in the backside eventually, for instance when they need the support of those creatures they've mutilated by ripping their teeth out, they likely won't find it. Or They may find Rask has more support, they where will that leave them? Either way it's going to be interesting to find out.

On the flip-side being too trusting of the creatures that literally want to kill and eat them could quite literally bite them in the rear.~

For most of them they've no reason to trust Rask and every reason to be deeply suspicious.

Yes, but treating them as they do is not good either, they need to find a middle ground and realise that as that rabbit said nature is as nature is, however even an old dog can learn new tricks, also they need to stop underestimating the intelligence of wolves and other carnivores, seriously you can stay ahead of your hunters if you don't know their intelligence.

ok, tbh this narrative went stupid. Rask suddenly (being a predator) thinks he is mindless just because he eats. thats some existeentisl schizophrenia.
lol, will this become a vegan advocate comic at the end?

It's a morality tale about the leap from "feral"/primitive patterns to what might evolve into a functioning society of multiple sapient species. I think existential crisis would be par for the course when you start to realize you've been essentially eating people your whole life-- unless you were a psychopath, I guess, or less evolved.

There isn't an analogous comparison on earth (we can't talk to pigs, for instance, and our ancestors probably killed all the nethanderals rather than form cooperative bonds), which is why I thought it was interesting to explore in an anthropomorphic world where the end goal was not a monoculture. At some point, somewhere, animals (especially predators) would need to have self reflection beyond what is excusable as "natural" and make a shift. The concept of morality is born.

It certainly wont be vegan friendly if that's what you're worried about.

Yikes my spelling *neanderthal

Am loving this conversation.

Funny enough, squirrels have been shown to eat other animals. Whether this is if they're starving enough or just simply do, is beyond me.