Badger badger.

I'm guessing Shaggy never gave his mate any pups.

Actually he did, a couple of times -- but they've all grown up and moved away. You could say that Puffball is suffering from "empty sett" syndrome.

Man. o.O This is a LONG series you did. Been a very good read from beginning to here so far. Was this ever published or posted anywhere in the past?

Yes, it was serialized in five issues of the funny animal APA "Rowrbrazzle" from 1988-89. I also used to sell the complete story in digest form at conventions for $2.00 per copy, but that was long ago. This will most likely be the final "edition" of the story.

Hmm. What kind of badgers are these, exactly? Know enough to know about the North American badger (solitary) and honey badgers of Europe (much more social). These look like North American badgers, but I wouldn't think of them as Good Samaritans! :)

Ah, I was wondering when someone would inquire about them!

Shaggymane is designed like a European badger, the type familiar to anyone living in Great Britain. To make them easy to tell apart, I gave Puffball the markings of a North American badger.

Who says N.A. badgers can't be Good Samaritans? I take it then, you have never heard of "Incident at Hawk's Hill," the story of how a North American she-badger adopted a six-year-old human boy who had gotten lost in the woods. The book has been called "the fictionalized account of an incident that actually occurred near Winnipeg about 1870."

Actually, I didn't know about the Incident at Hawk's Hill book!

I may be a molecular virologist iRL, but I started out a naturalist and amateur ornithologist (i.e. birder), that did alot of volunteer scientific survey work. I've always loved studying animal habits and behavior, and you just taught me something new about badgers. Thank you! :)

You have a very huuuuge fantasy! You are very talented.

oh wow to bad he left