1/12 >You're a happy fluffy pony. >You live with daddy in his apartment. >Once, a long time ago, you lived with mummy. >You drank her milk, slept in her warm fluff. >But then the man took you away from mummy. >You were very scared and you cried. >But it was okay because daddy came. >Daddy gave you nummies and a warm bed. >He played with you and gave you huggies. >Daddy explained that babies have to leave their mummies. >So that the mummies can have room for more babies. >Daddy is very smart. >You love to sit in his lap and watch the TV box. >You don't understand the pictures. >They must be for smarties like daddy. >You're happy, because daddy feeds you Skittles while you sit on his lap. >Sometimes you see other fluffies outside the window. >You wave, and sometimes they wave back. >Sometimes they cry and ask you for nummies. >They say their tummies hurt. >Silly fluffies...you should go home and ask your daddies for nummies!   >Now daddy is putting all his toys in boxes. >Even his TV box. >He doesn't put your ball in a box though. >That makes you happy. >One day, some of daddy's friends come. >You're so happy to have new friends to play with you. >Daddy's friends help take away all the boxes. >Now there's more room to play! >Daddy is very smart. >Daddy is funny too. >He keeps asking if his friends will take his fluffy pony. >Silly daddy! You're his fluffy pony! They can't take you. >Daddy seems sad that night. >He gives you sketties. >Not home made...a man brings them to the door. >You love sketties either way.   2/12 >The next morning, daddy brings out one last box. >Oh no! He's putting your ball in the box! "Nuuu! Dun take 'way fluffy bawl! Fwuffy be good!" >It's okay...daddy puts you in the box too. >This is a silly game, but you like it. >You try to play peek-a-boo with daddy. >He writes something on the box with his big marker. >That's a "Daddy only" marker. >Once you played with it. >You tried to draw a picture for daddy. >Daddy got angry and had to paint the wall. >Then daddy gave you spankies. >Since then you have never touched daddy's toys. >Oh boy! Now daddy is taking you outside! >You love outside. >He carries you in your box. >You pretend it's a magic flying fort. >Daddy puts you down near the corner. >He looks very sad. >He scratches you behind the ears and says "Goodbye." "Okay! Goo-bye daddy!" >This is a funny game. >You wonder when daddy will come back.   >You're happy that your ball is in the box. >You play with it. >Some nice humans come and scratch you behind the ears. >You aren't afraid. >You wish daddy would come back and meet them. >You could all play together!   >Now it's getting darker. >Why hasn't daddy come back yet? >This game is getting scary. >No more humans stop to pet you. >Oh no! Water is falling from the sky! >You don't like it...your fluff is getting wet. >You're cold. >You try to huddle in the corner of the box to stay warm. >The box falls apart! >You broke daddy's box...he's going to be angry. >You try to fix the box, but it's too soggy. >All of a sudden, a scary monster with glowing eyes roars past! >It splashes you with dirty water. >Yelping and crying, you run away. >You find a safe place under a big blue box. >It's still wet and cold, but the water can't fall on you here.   3/12 >You open your eyes. >It's morning. >Oh no! Daddy's box is gone! >How will daddy find you now? >Luckily, your ball is still here. >You go get it, and roll it with your nose. >Now it's rolling faster than you can follow it. "Nuuu! Bawl come back!" >You chase it for a long way until it finally stops. >You're very scared. >This is a strange place. >You're hungry and cold. >Oh, good...other fluffies! >Those fluffies will help you. >Maybe they'll have nummies. >Maybe they'll know where daddy is hiding. "Hewwo fwiends!" >The other fluffies don't say hello. >They growl at you and puff up their cheeks. >It's scary! >"Fwuffy gif bawl! Fwuffy go 'way!" >These fluffies are meanie fluffies! "Nu! Dis fwuffy bawl!" >You hop on top of your ball. >The meanie fluffies attack you. >They bite your ears, kick your face. >They give you big owwies. >You cry, but they keep hurting you. "Whaaahhh! Pwease stop huwt fwuffy!" >You run away from the owwies, but they case you. >The meanie fluffies pull your tail...it hurts! >They chase you a long way but you escape. >They took your ball! >Daddy is going to be very angry. >You lost your ball once before and daddy did not give you a new one for a long time. >You hope daddy understands. >It wasn't your fault.   4/12 >Your tummy hurts. >You haven't had nummies in a long time. >Crying, you search for daddy. >You try to ask humans but they are all meanies. >They won't help you find daddy. >Your feet hurt. >You need a place to rest, and some nummies. >There's a pretty place! >There's all sorts of flowers. >You go under the flowers...it's like a little fort. >The flowers smell pretty, you nibble them. >They're not as good as sketties, but they fill your belly. >You see a human. >She has pretty silver-gray fluff on her head. >She is very nice to the other humans. >Maybe she can help you find daddy. "Hewwo, pwease hewp fwuffy?" >Human shrieks and runs inside her house. >Are you scary? >Silly human...fluffies aren't scary! >She comes back outside. >"You filthy little beast! Look what you've done to my chrysanthemums!" >She hits you with a stick! >It hurts! You cry and try to run away! "Nuuu! Dun huwt fwuffy! Am good fwuffy!" >"There's no such thing as a good fluffy!" >This human is very angry. >She holds you down and gives you spankies with her stick. >You scream and cry, but she doesn't care that it hurts. >Finally, she kicks you away. >"Wretched vermin! I'd skin you alive if your hide was worth a penny!" >Yelping and crying, you run as far away as you can. >You finally find a safe place. >It's dark and doesn't smell pretty. >Your little body hurts all over. >You curl up and cry. >"Huh? Why fwuffy cwy? Fwuffy sad?"   5/12 >You yelp in fear. >It's another fluffy pony. >You cry and hide under a box. "Pwease dun huwt fwuffy!" >The other fluffy looks confused. >"Fwuffy no gif owwies." "Not meanie fwuffy?" >"Nuu. Am good fwuffy." >She gives you huggies. >It feels so good...it's the first kindness you've had in ages. >Your tummy rumbles. >She giggles. >"Dummy fwuffy not know whewe get nummies?" >You get a little angry...you're not a dummy. >But you'd really like some nummies. "Pwease hewp fwuffy get nummies?" >New friend shows you a garbage can. >"Good nummies!" >You're very scared. >You tipped over daddy's garbage once. >Daddy got very angry and put you in the sorry box. "Nuuu! Fwuffy not awwowed! Fwuffy scawed!" >New friend giggles. >"Fwuffy siwly...hewp fwuffy get nummies." >She jumps on your back so she can reach the gargage can. >She drops things down to you. >They're yucky...not good nummies. >You don't want to eat them. >Your new friend eats them though. >Oh no! She's eating all the nummies! >You scramble to get a share before they're all gone. >They don't taste pretty, but they fill your tummy. >"Pway?" she asks. >That makes you sad. "Nu can pway. Meanie fwuffies took 'way bawl." >She looks confused. >"Pway?"  She tackles you. >You squeal in fear, but she doesn't give you owwies. >You like this kind of playing. >You like your new friend.   6/12 >Your new friend isn't much help finding daddy. >But she knows where to find nummies. >She knows where safe places to sleep are. >She knows how to avoid meanie fluffies and bad humans. >You hope that when you find daddy she can come live with you too. >She always calls you silly, and "dummy fwuffy." >You don't mind because she's your friend. >At night you sleep together and keep each other warm. >You give each-other huggies when you get hurt or scared. >In time, you sniff her bottom. >It smells really good. >You give her special huggies. >She cries and gets angry at you, but you can't stop. >Later, you say you're sorry and try to give her normal huggies. >She's still angry, but she does not leave you.   >Soon she begins to get bigger. >Your friend is always hungry...she wants more and more nummies. >You help her get them, you give her some of your nummies. >It's hard for her to walk. >She has to stay in safe places, but there's very little food there. >You bring her nummies to her. >Sometimes it's not enough, and she cries. >"Hungwy! Need nummies! Babees coming!" >Babies? >How is babby formed? >You believe your friend though...she's a very smart fluffy. >One day the safe place is not good enough. >"Babees coming...need safe pwace fow babees." >You two go looking for a good place for her babies.   7/12 >You and your friend walk all day. >She's very slow because her babies are coming soon. >You stop to drink water from puddles. >While she rests you bring her nummies that you find. >At last, you turn a corner. >"Wook! Wook!" your friend says. >It's a beautiful place. >There's trees and grass. >There's a pond with fresh water. >There must be lots of good places for the babies here! >But it's scary... >You have to cross the monster place. >They run fast and make loud scary noise. >You've seen them catch fluffies and crush them. >Their insides come out. >You don't like it. "Nuuu...find bettew pwace fo' babbees..." >Your friend disagrees. >"Dis bestest pwace fow babees." >She walks out into the monster place. >You have to follow her, she can't go alone. >The monsters make horrible scary noises at you. >They have humans inside them. >Do the monsters eat humans? >You're confused...the humans are alive and seem angry. >Crying, you both hurry across the monster place. "Pwease fastew!" >You push your friend to help her along. >One makes an awful screeching sound that terrifies you. >You bolt away, running as fast as you can. >Success! You crossed the monster place! >You're safe and it feels so good. >The new place for the babies is wonderful. >Wait...where is your friend? >She's still in the monster place! >Why is she laying down in the monster place? >This is no time for nappies!   8/12 >You run back into the monster place. >Your friend is laying down taking nappies. "Dummy fwuffy! Go! No sweep now! Scawy!" >You poke her with your nose. >She rolls over. >The sight makes you throw up your nummies. >Her insides have come out. >There's red juice all over her fluff. "Pwease move! Pwease come!" >You're crying and shoving her with your hooves, but she won't move. >The monsters are stopping and making scary bellowing sounds. >The humans inside are yelling bad words at you. >But you just can't leave your friend like this. >She's hurt...you can't let the monsters get her. >Your friend moves a little. >No wait...it's not her. >It's a little thing. >It squirms around in her inside parts...which are now outside. >It squeaks. >You know it needs your help. >There's another one. >You can only pick up one in your mouth. >It tastes yucky, but that's okay, it's not nummies. >You carefully carry it to a safe place. >Under some bushes where the monsters can't hurt it. >The thing squeaks louder when you put it down, but you have to leave it. >You have to help your friend. >When you come back, several more monsters have attacked her. >Sadly, you realize she can't get up again. >She's flat...she doesn't have leggies or a face anymore. >The other squirmy thing is dead too. >You understand now...those are the babies. >Oh no! You left the other baby under the bush!   9/12 >The baby cries and squeaks. >You clean it with your tongue and give it huggies. >You keep it warm in your fluff. >The baby cries constantly. >You remember...when you were a baby your mummy gave you milk. >But you have no milk. >Your friend was this baby's mummy. >Now she's gone so she can't give her baby milk. >You try to give the baby some flower nummies. >The baby can't eat those...it's too little. >Crying in helplessness, you try to keep the baby warm. >That night, it stops crying. >By morning, it's not moving anymore. >You sit under the bush and bawl. >You made it to the safe place, but it doesn't matter. >Your friend is dead...now the baby is dead too. >You don't care if the monsters find you. >All you can do is cry out loud.   >Humans find you. >You try to run, but they catch you with a scary snare. >They're bringing you to a monster! "Nuuu! Nuuu! Dun feed fwuffy to musta! Whhhaaahh! Wan daddy!" >They open up the side of the monster and toss you into his belly. >It's hot and dark, but it's noisy. >There are other things in here. >Doggies and cat monsters. >Other fluffies too. >The other fluffies are scared and crying like you. >Is this what it's like to be eaten?   10/12 >You are inside the monster for a long time. >Suddenly, it's bright again. >You can't see...and something grabs your fluff. >You scream and try to run away, but your little legs don't touch the ground. >A big human thwacks you on the nose. >"Behave yourself! If you bite I'm gonna drown you myself!" >You don't understand what he means, but you behave like he tells you. >He puts you in a cage with other scared fluffies. >You all hug and cry. >Are the humans going to eat you? >Are they going to feed you to monsters? >A man in a white coat reaches into the cage and plucks fluffies out. >They scream and cry...scared to be separated from the others. >He does things to them...it looks like he's hurting them. >Sometimes he says "good."  A man takes those fluffies away. >Sometimes he shakes his head and says "sick." >A different man takes those fluffies to a big metal box. >He puts them in the box for a few minutes. >When he takes them out they're wet and they don't move anymore. >Then he throws them away. >Oh no...the man in white is reaching for you! >"Nuuu! Dun huwt fwuffy! Am good!" >He picks you up and puts you on a table. >He puts a yucky wooden thing in your mouth and looks inside. >He shines a light in your eyes. >He grabs your private place. >He shoves a thing in your poopies hole.  It hurts. >"This one is good." >Another man picks you up. >He takes you to another table and picks up a strange stick. >You cry even harder...you don't want a beating. >He passes the stick over you, but doesn't hit you. >"Well damn Doc...this one is micro-chipped." >"Huh?" asks the man in the white coat. >"I'm picking up a radio frequency identification tag." >"This one has an owner."   11/12 >The men put you in a cold steel cage all by yourself. >"Owners have these implanted in case their pet gets lost." >"Yeah, but I've never seen anyone waste one on a fluffy pony." >"Well, we can search the online database and find his owner." >You don't understand what's going on. >You've heard the word "microchip" before. >Daddy took you to the vet. >The vet hurt you with a needle, but daddy said it was to keep you safe. >"We're gonna find your owner, boy." "Hewp fwuffy find daddy?" >It's too good to be true. >You're so happy! >These humans are going to find daddy for you! >It's been so long...so many horrible things have happened. >Soon you'll be home, sitting on daddy's lap, eating Skittles. >You can't wait to give him huggies.   >You are in the cage a long time. >You wonder...will these men bring you to daddy? >Or will daddy come to get you. "Whewe daddy? When fwuffy see daddy?" >"Soon boy. There was nobody at the address on record, so we're asking the Post Office for a change of address record." >You don't know what that means. >You just hope daddy comes to get you soon.   12/12 >You are getting lonely inside the cage. >It's been a long time. >You have nummies and water, but the cage is small. >There are no other fluffies to play with. >It's cold at night. >One day the nice man comes in. >He looks sad. >Maybe he's going to miss you when daddy takes you home. "Daddy come today, get fwuffy?" >"No, I'm sorry boy." >"Your owner moved to a new city. We called him, but he says he can't have a fluffy pony in his new home." >You don't understand. "Daddy no come today?" >"Your daddy is never coming, boy.  Sorry." >Daddy is never coming? >Your eyes well up with tears. >You wish the nice man would give you huggies to make you feel better. >He does not. >He takes you out of your cage and puts you in a bigger one. >There's other fluffies in this cage. >They are not nice to you though. >Meanie fluffies give you owwies. >They make you wait until last to eat nummies. >They never let you sleep in their fluff pile. >Sometimes humans come and pick a fluffy to take home. >You never get picked. >You aren't pretty anymore. >Your ears are torn, your fluff is worn out and stained. >No human wants to take you home. >You never leave the cold steel cage again for the rest of your life.