Returning to the Andur dreamscape. In a recent posting I had mentioned that at  Tom_Clowder villa one of essential members of the household was the Matriarch. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2978566 Since she is a widower who has lost all her children, she has sort of adopted the fennecs who work at Tom's villa as her new children.

Now fennecs are simple folks who don't demand much of the world around them, but one thing they seem to have a universal craving, desire, passion for is dates. This makes them handy rewards/ treats to give hard working fennecs for a job well done. But how many should you give them? Left to their own devices many fennecs will eat dates until they sick to their stomachs! The Matriarch came up with a simple solution. You give them a ear length of dates.

Now fennecs are not very big but they do have large ears for their size. So an "ear length" of dates makes for a fine treat! Of course if they eat them all at once you have a fennec bouncing off the walls but nothing is perfect. Now if the fennecs had their way the dates would placed side by side, but the Matriarch has decided they should be placed end to end. Therefore you often have fennecs measuring their ears to see if one is longer than the other so they can get the most dates for a job well done!