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Dudstoffy Elfdog Species Reference

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Dudstoffy Elfdogs [Quattuor auriculare]
Dudstoffy Elfdogs are a medium-sized prey animal that live in the foresty areas of mountain ranges. They are most comfortable deep in the woods, but have been known to chase smaller prey pretty far up mountains. Although they are prey animals themselves, they are omnivorous in the sense that they WILL take down a rabbit, cat, or large rat if edible plants are scarce, or when a female is pregnant or still producing milk for her pups.  They are diurnal, meaning they are most active during the day and sleep during the night. They also usually do not make their own dens, preferring to make a cave or hollowed out tree or a pile of boulders their home. For this reason, and the fact they are very much wild animals that are basically untamable, they are a huge nuisance to farms and nearby homesteads where they find shelter in sheds, barns, and underneath houses and porches.

Elfdogs are most known for their ears -- they have two sets of somewhat independently-moving ears. The smaller set is lower and further toward the outside of their face, and moves about as independently from the larger set as a person's toes [as in, they CAN, just not very much.].  They also have two horns that somewhat resemble antlers on their foreheads. Horns can come in all shapes and sizes. However, they usually have only one or two “branches/brackets” coming from the main horn. Horns with many of these, resembling deer antlers, are rare. Females usually have smaller horns. Horn development usually begins when a pup is a year old and ends at age three. Horns are the best way to tell an elfdog’s age. New and slightly fuzzy horns are usually a sign of a young elfdog, where jagged, chipped, or broken horn are usually of an older elfdog.

Their heads are usually short, somewhat wide, and square. They somewhat resemble a dog, and somewhat resemble a deer, but they are not related to either. They have a large nose, which can either be black, brown-grey [is this what's called liver?], or pink, depending on their skintone [their skin tone will also be reflected in their inner ears, which only has a small amount of fur on it]. Their tongues can be anywhere from a pink color, to a lavender-grey, to blue-black, and occasionally can be spotted with any of these colors. Their teeth are almost all flat, besides their small sharp canines. Their eyes range from yellow to gold, to deep orange, to dark brown. Green is rare, and any other colors do not show up, except "pink" in albino elfdogs.

Elfdogs have four “paws”, which have small, rock hard, horse-like hooves on each toe.  Unlike their horns, their hooves are always growing and need constant wearing down on rocks and trees. Usually, their constant climbing up and down cliffs does the trick. Hooves and horns are USUALLY the same color, but there are exceptions. At the back of each ankle/paw
is a small, sharp dewclaw the same color as their hooves. Colors hooves and antlers may be -- White, [though usually scuffed up and dirty if this is the case], black, tan, brown, yellowish, and occasionally grey. Antlers may also have two colors that fade into each other rather than showing up as two distinct colors.

Coat color ranges from white to to tan to brown, lavender-grey, "blue" [bluish-tinged dark grey], silver, grey-brown, golden, and yellow. Mostly-black elfdogs are rare, but black markings are more common [but not as common as the other colors]. Markings are typically simple, with only a small amount of more detailed markings such as stripes, spots, 'ticking' [tips of the hairs are a different color than the rest], and brindle. Otherwise, the elfdog has patches of various color on them. Patterns that do NOT show up, however, are rosettes, a LOT of striping, a LOT of spots, geometric shapes [such as perfect circles, triangles, squares, hearts, etc. ... their markings are more "organic" in shape.], and no markings [with the exception of albino and melanistic elfdogs.] They also have a lot of thick, fluffy fur on their chest extending to their stomach. This usually does not have any markings on it, [which a few exceptions] and is almost always a different color than the rest of them. [In albino and melanistic elfdogs, because this fur is more dense, the color is more "pure" as opposed to the other areas of the body which has thinner fur (so in melanistic, the fluff may appear pure black while the rest APPEARS to be slightly grey-ish or brown-ish, and in albino, the fluff would be pure right, and in albino, the fluff would be pure snowy white, and the rest of the fur may APPEAR pinkish at first, due to the thin white fur covering the light light pink skin.).] Fur colors that will NOT show up are basically anything not realistic [like pink (albino might seem slightly pink at first glance), blue, green, orange (with the exception of orangey-brown), yellow (outside of the realistic level), green, purple, etc.], no matter if it's neon, dark, or pastel.

A mother elfdog will usually give birth to up to three pups at a time. The average litter is two. Newborn elfdogs are born with undeveloped ears, soft, pliable hooves, and closed eyes. Their eyes open after about 3-4 hours. Their ears stand
up after about 2 months, and their hooves harden after about 2 weeks, when they begin to stand. Pups are born all one color, but develop their adult markings around the time their horns begin to pop up. They are fully mature around a year
and a half. Elfdogs stop mating and having pups around the age of 18.

Elfdogs have 4 stages of life:
1. Pup: Newborn to 6 months [Baby]
2. Scrap: 6 - 11 months [Adolescent]
3. Prime: 1 - 20 years [Adult]
4. King: 21 - 30 years [Senior]

They live in small [up to 10 members] herds led by the oldest king female in the herd [all old elfdogs, regardless of sex, are called kings. It's like how all human children...are called children no matter if they're a boy or a girl.]. Once the king dies, she is replaced by the next oldest female in the herd. Herds of elfdogs usually do not live directly together, but instead leave specific marks and scents in trees unique to a herd. Marks and scents are usually left if food is found or if danger is present. If members of a herd live in too close of living arrangements, they may become aggressive and attack each other. The only exception to this is when a female gives birth to pups -- the other members of the herd take turns watching over the new little family while the mother is able to get some sleep or some food. Once pups grow into scraps, most leave the herd to learn how to fend for themselves and prepare for their future of starting a new herd as primes. It is rare for a scrap to stay in the herd...but it does happen.

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I think that's everything.
You may have to 'download' to see the details best, but I'm pretty sure I included all the text in the above novel. lol.

So, you all MIGHT remember this kid:
Baby Trezzy by Floofychu
Trezzy. What you MIGHT not know is that ever since I made him, I've been wanting to create a species based off of him. After two previous attempts [and an ENTIRE name change...]...
Super long process is LONGGGGG by Floofychu
...
I finally made a ref sheet for these guys!
Dudstoffy Elfdogs!
Dudstoffy = Fuddy Soft scrambled up
Fuddy Soft = the "county" that :icontelefang: 's character Little Girl lives in.
Elfdogs = It just sounds right.

This species is closed, but i will definitely have adopts and possible MYO events!
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RedStars7's avatar
Huge and informative reference. I love how original you are ;w;