Introducing Alice and Joan Rabbitfangs, the (nearly) identical twin daughters of Jess and Liane. At the tender age of six, these mouse/weasel/rabbit hybrid girls are already quite the handful, and ready to take on the whole world! Right after a few cartoons...
I think my last reply was a little snippy. Sorry! So I thought I'd start again.
The girls do look a bit like dormice, I know. So does there mother, as has been pointed out. But as far as genetics go, their rodent ancestors were domestic mice so they're actually rather different. The reason they have fur all over is that, as they are a third weasel and a third rabbit, it only seemed natural that they would have fur all over instead of having bare tails, ears, hands and feet as a regular mouse would.
I think my last reply was a little snippy. Sorry! So I thought I'd start again. The girls do look a
I never saw the original reply, so I can't say one way or the other about how it came out, so....
Anyhoo, mice are often seen with a singular type, though most have no idea just how diverse the mouse family is, both in size and degree of fur! For example, the chinchilla, cavy and springhare are all members of the mouse family. All of them are large (the cavy is the largest species of mouse in the world!), and quite well-furred (the springhare is covered in long, shaggy fur, and because of the fur and size, was mistaken for being a long-tailed hare, hence its name). The dormouse is also a species of mouse, and is also completely furred. (Keep in mind I had pet mice IRL, so I have some experience, here.)
I'm not going to correct you as for how you caracterise their mixed-species heritage- My only point was to say that they resembled more like dormice with the furred & tufted tails. (Disney made the mistake of having the Dormouse in the animated Alice in Wonderland drawn simply as a common brown mouse, rather than a proper dormouse from the book- The distinction being that dormice don't have bare paws or tails!)
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I never saw the original reply, so I can't say one way or the other about how it came out, so.... A
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