Greetings again hope your doing well
Yuppers! Hi there, right back!
Only got a few questions this time but there is a couple heavy hitters in here this time
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What is generally socially accepted normal among Lapdragons, meaning in a room there is four Lapdragons alone together vs. the same Lapdragons out in public in a park.
Can you elaborate? I mean, they don’t wear much of anything, they tend to be friendly and playful… Are you asking questions about their modesty or lack thereof?
Given that Lapdragons are generally kept as pets and viewed this way by the general public is it common or socially acceptable for a keeper to walk there charge on a leash in public, also how do other animals handle a Lapdragons.
Yes. Also, that’s a very good question! Their reactions are somewhat mixed, though most pet dogs end up desensitized to them pretty quickly, to one degree or another. The ways that dragons’ instinctive body language resembles humans’ and dogs’ certainly helps this out. Some dogs tend to defer to dragons, others to see them as equals, but all tend to defer to the way their alpha treats someone. Most wildlife reacts like they would to any other large potential predator; many large predators are territorial with them the same way they are with each other, or - for that matter - with humans.
As most Lapdragons are full time pets do their keepers receive an payment from the government to look after them or does a keeper have to support themselves and their pet alone.?
They’re required to care for themselves and their pet alone - however, there’s a universal basic income scheme known as a “citizenship dividend” in the setting. And that’s one of the reasons people “pursue a career in pethood” - they can save their entire dividend that way, and it’s a widely viewed as a good way for the lower classes to quickly boom their retirement savings. Whether that’s true or wise is an open question, though.
Honestly I’m not sure you will be able to answer this one but lets have a shot. Regarding more the mentality aspect of an Lapdragon do they experience any different instinctual response given their state compared to both an intact dragon and Elves in general . Meaning more urges/instincts others wouldn't have.
No, but. They have most of the same instinctual responses that other dragons have, but indulging in many of those is considered a social faux pas between most - but if one’s job is to ham up the role of playing pet, lapdragons are instead rewarded for indulging some of those instinctual behaviors that others would be teased for. Elves have little desire to get their noses up into something they’re exploring, though dragons do - that may be down to the fact that it’s just easier to get their noses close to the action, and they learn about just how much information they can gather that way… Which is to say, it could be instinct, or it could be conditioning. Even as a designed species, a lot of those little interactions are hard to tease apart!
Another confounding factor is the use of the Lapdragon Drug and the Reindeer Drug. The Lapdragon Drug mostly influences the phenotype, causing the body to change slightly and grow slightly smaller. However, psychological effects cannot be ruled out. The Reindeer Drug, by contrast, is deliberately personality-altering. Like other so-called “training drugs”, their purpose is to alter behavior in the long term, creating the appearance of “desirable” instinctual behaviors.
So - the short answer is no. Unless those instincts were added deliberately, with a syringe.
How binding are the stipulations of the pethood contract?
Only modestly. They have to come with some kind of a bailout clause, in case of unforeseen complications, abuse, or changing circumstances.
Given the natural stance for a dragon is on all fours how comfortably is a dragon able to stand upright on their hinds 
Pretty comfortably, but they have a digitigrade posture, so there’s only two points of contact - not like they have heels and toes, so it requires more active stabilization than in humans - though that tail of theirs provides a useful counterbalance, or a third point of contact.
Thinking more inline with the sketch you did awhile back with a newly gelded dragon was wearing a cone to prevent him biting his stitches. Or at least I think that was the premises for that one its kind of late here.
That was the implication. He could take it off, if he wanted; he knows better than to chew on his stitches. The cone is mostly cosmetic - wordlessly announcing the dragon’s newly acquired state to the world at large. Not sure if it’s intended as some kind of humiliation, or just a playful gesture.
Due to the sturdy nature do Lapdragon's suffer the affect of alcohol both when drinking and the morning after.
Dragon venom - the substance produced to create dragonfire - is high-test ethanol. Their fire gland, located between the lungs, preferentially scavenges alcohol from the bloodstream, since instead of building up lactic acid in the muscles, anaerobic fermentation in dragons produces ethanol as a waste-product, which is discharged into the bloodstream, giving them great stamina and a bit of a “runner’s high” in the process. They can get drunk, but they’re not cheap dates. However, they can also recycle that alcohol when it comes out of their bloodstream. They don’t get hangovers, as part of the metabolic tweaks required to enable this trick.
Alright last couple more aligned with the ‘uses’ of Lapdragons
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Ties in a little with the last one, would a drunk Lapdragon (if possible) loose their inhabitations.
As much as a drunk human might, although they’d need to drink more or stronger stuff to reach the same level of inebriation.
regarding Female/herm dragons how do they experience their reproductive cycles, do they retain those they had as humans or do dragons experience things differently due to laying eggs.
Dragons don’t have periods, if that’s what you mean. By default, they probably mimicked human patterns of fertility, but this was eliminated to eliminate menstruation, and tied to some demand-based egg release scheme like cats and ferrets have; the problem there is how menstruation is then triggered by - and when - you’re having a lot of safe sex. Suboptimal, certainly, if you’re not in the process of starting a family! Birth control implants and hormonal IUDs are probably cheap and plentiful (lots of off-patent generics turned out by automated factories for peanuts) to help with this. I suspect that dragons having visible estrus was initially hidden as an “undocumented feature” that could be triggered by drugs; dragons naturally going into heat really sounds like an aftermarket modification. Given that, though, they would be short-day-breeders; their gestation is about six months, and they’d prefer to deliver in spring or so, putting mating season somewhere in fall. I mean, if you had the option of going into heat, wouldn’t you want to try it sometime? At least once or twice. :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_ovulation_(animals)
I suspect that the original system was induced ovulation in response to spermatozoa, or some component that was closely tied to them - perhaps testosterone, or a component whose supply would also be cut in a vasectomy, or by the use of the “male pill”. This would tend to prevent menstruation except on the off chance that a breeding attempt did not result in pregnancy.
tieing into the last one as well Do Female Lapdragons after being fixed still experience these cycles.
They tend not to, if they experienced them beforehand. Medical intervention can alter that, though.
Got some more questions directed more towards females and herms but will need to hear answers to the questions above first and a few towards ‘uses’ as well
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hope this finds you well and hear from you again soon take care
Thank you! :D