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lillian-nator · 4 years

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Ranch AU

Or, as we all call it, The Cowboy AU

Essentially, this was something that I created, and it’s gonna be purely fluffy, with a small bit of angst here and there. Any of the angst will be hurt/comfort. It’s meant to make us all feel better after those fucking harsh lore streams. I started it, based off of some shit in the Dad!Schlatt AU, and after that I honestly didn’t write most of it. It had really been a project in the discord, because we were all sad and shit, so if you have some fluff to offer, please do! I am happy to make almost anything canon - and we could always use more ideas. :)

I hope you enjoy some mindless farm boi fluff!

BASIC INFO:

It's SBI's Ranch (Phil is Dadza, Tommy, Techno, and Wilbur are his sons)

Phil, sells to the local stores, and manages the crops. He doesn't do too much labor anymore. He hired his boys for that.

Dream, SapNap, Purpled, Tubbo, Callahan, and Punz are all hired farm hands

George, Niki, Ranboo, and Fundy work at the shop where they sell their products; Niki makes all of the dairy products, Fundy and Ranboo stock, label prices, and keeps track of sales, and George works customer service with his Gogy magic.

Wilbur works with the sheep, the goats, and he trains the dogs (Collies - they herd sheep), he also works with the crops a lot

Schlatt isn't hired but he might as well be. He can be found wherever Wilbur is, and is probably drinking a beer he stole from Phil. He doesn't get paid, but he eats all of their food.

Tommy works with the cows, the pigs, the chickens, the horses (sometimes), his goose, and the dogs / cats that they own

Tubbo works with Tommy. Essentially. But he also works on the crops, and the bee farm that they have set up.

Techno works with the horses, and is currently training to be a veterinarian.

Dream works on horses with Techno - they race the horses competitively - but otherwise, is where ever he is needed (usually crops)

Purpled works with Tommy and Tubbo. He mostly works with Tubbo on crops and his bee farm.

Punz and SapNap haul things. As your resident Chads, they are in-charge of moving heavy things and doing manual labor.

Callahan is their repair man. He fixes tractors, and machines on a daily basis.

SOME HEADCANNONS:

HENRY, a saga:

that henry has a matching bandana to the one Tommy has so that everyone knows thats henry. Tommy doesn't like it when people touch henry so henry gets a bandana - Shark -

when Phil first started raising Tommy, he would've never guessed that he would turn out the way he did.

He was loud, and brash, and hit his brothers, and made fun of the neighbor's kids, but then Tubbo became Tommy's best friend, and then Phil introduced Tommy to the cows.

The cows are Tommy's everything.

When a Bred Heifer is due, he sits with them everyday past their due date - he sat with Betty for 5 days when she wouldn't birth a calf. He was so fucking worried.

When one of his cows are sick, he sleeps in the barn until they get better. His last days with Harvey fucked him up.

Tubbo, Tommy, Purpled, and Ranboo spend long nights at the farm, and Tommy always leans against Henry as he stares up at the stars.

Henry who his best girl (all cows are girls and Tommy doesn't give a shit about gendered names). Henry who wears a matching bandana. Henry who is fluffy, and warm, and Tommy's everything. -

Sometimes when Tommy had a bad day, whether it’s stress, or school, or just whatever, Tommy sleeps in the Henry’s stall with her. Phil has so many pictures of Tommy curled up with Henry. From when she was first born to now. - Eye

Tommy hates winter because that’s the one time of year Phil won’t let him sleep in the barn. Even with the layers and heat lamps it’s too unsafe. Tommy always gets up extra early in the winter. Both because he has to check and break ice in the water troughs but also because he misses his girl - Eye -

Henry's mother, Betty, was the first Cow Tommy had helped during birth. He sat with her for 5 days when she hadn't gone into labor past her due date. It took 9 hours for Henry to be born, and Tommy was there through the entire thing -

Well, almost the entire thing. He was at school for the first hour of labor, and was so pissed at Phil when Phil knew and didn't immediately come get Tommy from School.

It always felt like Tommy and Henry had a special bond because Tommy literally raised Henry from birth. -

They didn't think Henry was gonna make it when she was first born, but Tommy was fucking determined, and bottle fed that cow every single day and night. When she was slowly weened off milk, Tommy got unironically sad that he didn't have to bottle feed her anymore.

He still visited her every morning, and milked her mother at dawn, right after he got eggs from his hens. -

Henry waits for Tommy at the end of their long ass drive way when he gets home from school. She knows that when the bus pulls up that her boy is back and so she’s always there waiting lazily for pets and a nice walk together back to the house. Even when it’s cold and someone is waiting for the kids to get home in an ATV or something Tommy always walks back to the house with Henry - Eye

Thinking about how long these fucking country roads are. And how Tommy and Tubbo have the same bus stop even though Tubbo and Tommy's houses are a couple of miles away. Tommy has to walk a mile to get to the beginning of his driveway, and seeing his favorite girl there is like a reward at the end of a journey. Tommy probably keeps a bag of feed in his backpack, which is just a mixture of grain, hay and corn, and gives Henry a handful to thank her for waiting for him.

Clementine, The Goose:

Tommy has a goose, and names it Clementine.

He found her in the woods one day, when she was very young, and he decided he was going to keep Clementine.

Clementine is only ever nice to Schlatt and Tommy. No one knows why.

Clementine follows Tommy around. Very endearing.

Phil doesn’t question it at this point

NEW MILO, the sequel:

OG Milo is a kitten that Wilbur found on the side of the road, in the rain, and he took the kitten in, trying to save him. Wilbur immediately got attached.

Techno pulled an all nighter, half spent trying to save OG Milo and the other half comforting Wilbur. "You couldn't have helped, he was too starved and out in the rain for too long." Phil adds that if Techno can't save something, it can't be saved. - Ethan

Wilbur's next cat was named New Milo in honor - Ethan

Anyway, New Milo has three kittens. Blood God, Boots (given to Fundy), and Bumbles (given to Tubbo). They're called the Bees and they were born Christmas Eve - Ethan

BLOOD GOD, the pussy:

Blood God is Techno's cat. Its just a ferall little molly that loves techno too much. - M -

After Techno helped New Milo have her litter, he wasn't originally gonna keep any of the kittens, but he saw this tiny thing with the orange muzzle and just: stole her.

He is also nicknamed Blood God, for both his skill in hunting and healing

He originally named her Piglet because the orange spot looked like a pig snout [the main reason he chose her and not her stronger littermates] but called her Blood God teasingly when he first adopted her

Wilbur didn't realize he meant it as a nickname and told everyone her name was Blood God

Techno still calls her Piglet, but everyone else calls her Blood God because that's the name on her collar.

Most of their cats aren't collared, but Phil made her a custom collar because he was worried she'd get lost hunting with Techno and Dream - Ethan -

Blood God is such a batshit cat. She's a runt, really, oddly small compared to her siblings, and she's their best mouser

She's the cat that everyone leaves scraps for, but never tries to pet out of fear

Often she'll climb up people's legs and sit on their shoulders, and it's the only time you can pet her.

She is very, very affectionate with Techno and he loves her very much. He has her very well trained, and she comes with him and Dream when they go hunting sometimes alongside a terrier.

She's a little itty bitty calico molly and she has an orange patch right over her muzzle - Ethan

TOMMY'S HENS, the chicks:

He gets real defensive of his hens. They lay eggs for him. They deserve to be treated well. -

Tommy does in fact have an egg incubator; Sometimes it's just better. Tommy prefers letting his hens care for their own eggs, but he does still use the incubator - Ethan -

Some chickens enjoy being thrown so they can flap and shit. A few days after passing ownership of the hens to Tommy, Phil is going down to the crops and just sees Tommy chucking his hens and watching them rush back to be thrown again

he feels a hint of "what the hell" but he notes the gentleness tommy does it with and how the chickens seem to be enjoying it and he shrugs and keeps walking - Ethan -

Once Wilbur was helping Tommy with the chickens and he dropped an egg

Unfertilized, of course, but Tommy looked like you'd just punted a toddler

Three years later, Wilbur isn't allowed to touch the eggs anymore

Tommy's paranoid he'll hurt a live one

"Get out." "What - Tommy it was an accident, it was just one egg." "If you aren't gonna treat Phoebe's eggs with care; You can get the fuck out." "Tommy -" "Out." -

the quality chicken eggs depends usually on how the chicken feels. While under his care, the eggs the chickens produced were really good.

Under Tommy's care? Phil's eggs tasted like horseshit in comparison - Ethan -

They have their like, main barn and to the side of it is a little pond. The chicken coops are a little beside it, with the singular duck coop (he only has four ducks) closest. He calls the area the Business Bay

AGES:

Tommy - 16 Tubbo - 16 Purpled - 17 Ranboo - 17

Techno - 19 Wilbur - 21 Schlatt - 19 Phil - idk like 45 or some dad shit

Fundy - 18 Niki - 19

SapNap - 18 Dream - 19 George - 20 Punz - 19 Callahan - 20

RANDOM HC’S:

Tubbo, Niki, Ranboo, and Fundy are siblings. -

Whenever they eat meat they talk about who they're eating.

They tell stories about their day and such but they always start dinner, when its meat, saying "rip lmao" and telling stories about them

...they don’t do it when they eat beef

Everyone sitting down with their plates of ham Wilbur: so who was it? Phil: Fern Tommy, already eating: rest in peace fern Techno: he shat on my boots once -

Each of the boys get a few animals that aren't allowed to be butchered.

Wilbur has Friend, Enemy, and Skit the Bull. (Wilbur wanted to name a Bull "Shit", but Phil said no because Tommy was 11 and already swearing too much for his liking)

Techno has none of the livestock. He only cares about Blood God, and his horses.

Tommy has a pig [currently unnamed], his Hens (6 or 7 of them, that lay eggs), and his dairy cows -

Phil is ALWAYS chewing on straw. -

Tommy, Techno, and Wilbur all call Phil "Pops" or "Pop". They all used to call him "Papa" though. It's like a coming of age thing for the three of them, when they stop calling him "Papa" and start calling him "Pop".

Phil may or may not have cried when Tommy started calling him "Pop" at the age of 12.

ALTHOUGH, all 3 boys know that if you want anything, you call Phil "Papa". Phil can't resist it. -

Techno and Tommy with starry eyes: pops Phil: no Wilbur: Papa Phil, with slightly less confidence: n-no - Ethan -

Tommy holding a baby calf in his hands that he walls to bring inside for the night because hes in love with her: papa please!! Phil, practically in tears: fine. - M

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cutshawsnidowoa · 5 years

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Felines at Work

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People are obsessed with the idea of cats, and other pets, going to work. We’re not talking about Mittens heading to a financial firm, but more doing a job other than being cute and begging for treats. Working cats are popular on social media, from the pages of CatsWithJobs on Reddit, and Instagram accounts like @CatsOnTap or the hashtag #WorkingCatsofInstagram. It’s pretty adorable to see a cat in a barn or strolling amongst the vines of a vineyard. As an indoor cat owner, I smile as I scroll through images of working cats, wondering if my own feline would actually be able to capture a single mouse if on her own.

But working cats are a serious matter. Cats on the job take care of pests like rats, mice and gophers. Owning a working cat is viewed as eco-friendly pest control. It’s better for the environment and people around, as well as the product, like growing grapes or grain for wine or beer. These cats have a very important job for use in rural farms and ranches, barns, vineyards and breweries.

Second chance

While some of these cats may look snuggleworthy, they typically aren’t friendly to humans. Working cats are usually not social with humans or ready to live an indoor life.

These cats may be feral cats taken in by organizations, evaluated and deemed not suitable for standard adoptions. They might also be cats with medical needs that would likely not be adopted, like senior cats or FeLV+ cats. Also, working cats are a great alternative for those cats that have been returned to a cat colony after TNR but now face dangerous living situations or habitat destruction.

Sadly, without programs that adopt working cats, these cats might be euthanized or kept in a shelter for their life span. These cats get a second chance at life as a working cat. For example, Barn Cat Programs like the one created by Austin Pets Alive! found homes for almost 300 working cats in 2018.

Disney adventure

I recently visited Disneyland, not to ride rides, but to check out its working cats. Disneyland has many working cats on its expansive property in California. These cats spend their days hunting for rodents (not Mickey Mouse, of course!) that might be unsightly for guests.

One of Disneyland’s working cats in Anaheim, California.

I only managed to spot a few on my visit, but I did run into two regular guests at California Adventure Park. These cats (Snickers and Francisco) even have fans on Instagram (@disneylandcats). A cast member spilled the kibble to me about these two. While the others have earned their keep, these two prefer napping all day instead of mousing.

While they do come up to the fencing for head scratches, it’s advised by the park to not pet or feed working cats, as they are still considered feral cats with a job to do. I heard that the Disneyland cats are very well taken care of behind the scenes.

Vineyards and breweries

You might even find a cat amongst the vines at vineyards. Wine Cats, the 2013 book, highlights vineyard cats throughout the United States and abroad. After visiting wineries from around the globe for their previous book Wine Dogs, authors Craig McGill and Susan Elliott were struck by how many cats they met on the job. They decided to take portraits of them and find out more about their personalities. They were shocked at how expressive they were — as well as how difficult they were to shoot. As you may have guessed, cats don’t like being told to look at the camera, cannot be bribed and generally don’t show up to photo shoots on time. Even if the cats are difficult on camera, vineyard owners appreciate them for just being themselves.

For example, Australia’s Bent Road Winery winemakers is proud of its excellent mouser vineyard cat named Vicky. It claims it has no problems with mice, in comparison to its neighbors who complain about pests during the winter months, when vermin tend to move indoors. Vicky is head of the Vermin Control Department and is rewarded with venison, her favorite treat.

Many vineyards and breweries use cats as eco-friendly vermin control, like Calusa Brewing in Sarasota, Florida

Similar to winery cats, brewery cats protect the brewery and its grain from pests. The CatsOnTap website allows readers to connect with local breweries that feature working cats and tap room and brewery cats. CatsonTap creators Caroline and Nick say their obsession with cats and beer all started with a feral named Rosie. Rosie’s curiosity around beer helped her to become a coveted #beercat. They claim that every time they pour beer into a glass, Rosie is right there waiting to sniff and inspect the aromas. (Don’t worry, Rosie never takes a drink.) Since then, they’ve created a community of cat-loving craft brewery fans across the United States. Caroline loves it when a reader tags her in a post from a brewery featuring a working cat. “I always get that jolt of joy when I see our followers discovering or visiting with brewery cats.”

Transition to working cat

If you have a barn, small farm or brewery that needs protection, connect with a local shelter about its working-cat program. If you receive a working cat from a shelter, he should be current on all vaccinations and tested for any feline diseases. All you have to provide a working cat is food, water, a litter box and shelter, like a barn, to keep the cat protected from predators or the elements. As with any pet, you also have to make sure the cat is well taken care of, like paying for any necessary vaccinations and vet bills should the cat become sick.

Arizona Humane Society’s Working Cats Program gives cats not suited for indoor living a second chance as pest control workers.

During the first few weeks, the cat needs to be confined for a relocation period, for his own safety. The cat should be kept in a barn, garage or large crate for a few weeks while he adapts to the new surroundings.

New working cats must get used to the 3 S’s, according to Napa Valley’s Forgotten Felines — sights, sounds and smells. They need to be close enough to observe anything, but far enough away to stay safe in the enclosure. After that, they are ready for release! They’ll be at home and ready to hunt.

There is never a guarantee that the cat will hunt or that he’ll be good at it — but it’s an opportunity to use cats as eco-friendly pest control. If you’re interested in helping community cats but don’t have anywhere for them to work, donate to a local no-kill shelter with a community working cat program in place.

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