Yodsus as a species tend to live near bodies of water or locations with a variety of food sources, which makes non-livestock creatures pretty rare as they eat into what becomes very thinned out resources in during peak hot and cold months. That being said one of the livestock-turned-pseudo-pet of Yodsu are Looms (along with Klacks but that is a separate post), a mid-sized worm creature that scavenges the large swaths of tall grasses and occasional trees in The Wander.





Raising Looms:

Keeping Looms for livestock is a more involved affair as they require a good sized space for activity, a varied diet, and slow moving water (they can cling to the bottom of rivers well enough but get batted around by currents). This usually means that any Zuu who wants to get into the business tends to live either near the large Woods to the East or further inland, both of which are not known to be very Yodsu friendly.

That being said if you are willing to answer the call for fresh hands and hard workers from the children of ranchers that come down the rivers you’ll never have to worry about wanderlust or lack of food again! Many villages are willing to keep trade going with ranchers due to the stable output of eggs and thread, especially during the winters.

Dangerous living and proper care techniques aside, actually raising Looms is a involved process considering they will not become sexually mature until their third year, and even then can’t reliably take care of a full clowder of kits without direct assistance for protection and feeding well into their fifth year. Not that any Loom from a ranch will let anyone near their kits, resulting in the first hurdle of actually building trust with a murder slinky that can spit netting at you. And then once you -do- actually have their trust you better work on your reaction time and baby-proofing everything, because for some reason they love stealing trinkets and play tackling/smothering of their trusted family.

Ranchers have it so rough man.