How freaked out and disgusted is someone going to be by a rather eccentric girl keeping a pet rat? My setting is kinda like Jane Austen/the Brontë sisters, but stuck in time. Therefore, mid/late Victorian, England, rural ( Read more... )

Hello! Since y'all have always been such great . . . answerers . . . I have a question ( Read more... )

Context: Unbeknownst to them, a group of students adopt a sniffer-dog trained to search out human remains and/or human blood. He's never allowed in the living room, but when he is permitted entry, he always pauses at a particular spot ( Read more... )

Setting: medieval England (1193 to be precise ( Read more... )

That's right. You read correctly. I'm looking for a good dog breed for herding small children around.

Research thus far:Wiki'd collies and looked through the sub-types ( Read more... )

Question: When did people start castrating/neutering male cats? I don't need to know the exact year or anything, but rather a rough estimate in centuries.

Setting: A fairy tale-ish world. Since that includes magic and such I suppose I could wing the whole castration issue (I swear to God this isn't as dodgy as it might sound), but since the world ( Read more... )

Is it possible for someone to tell me the breed of the dog in the following pictures? I have no idea if she's purebred or mixed, but if someone can even tell me a possible ancestry for her (like "she may be part x breed" or something), that'd be great! :)

If it helps, the setting is modern-day Japan.

( Doggy pictures underneath the cut )

What pets and working animals (not so interested in livestock) would be common in Romania, or similar parts of Europe, around the turn of the 20th century ( Read more... )

Where: East St Louis, IL
When: Present
Who: 13 year old African American boy
What: Stray dog of mixed breed and male gender. Looks something like this

I've found plenty of information on what the different American ethnic groups name their kids, but nothing on what they name their dogs.

(I'm probably over thinking this, but the names I've come up ( Read more... )

A character in one of my fics has been left with a severe, permanent limp after a riding accident. Assuming that she can still manage to ride, what kinds of adjustments might she have to make ( Read more... )