Hm. Have you noticed any fleas or ticks on any of them?
[The leather gloves he traded some simple first aid work for don't allow him as much dexterity as the latex ones he'd prefer, but they're adequate for working with things he doesn't have to worry about contaminating. Things that are already dead.]
Given that even the deer here drink blood, I want to identify any zoonotic diseases before they can start spreading to the population. Especially when you've got unreliable long-term food storage options...
[He does occasionally look up from the rat he's switched his attention to to look back up at Alec, though he seems to be putting effort in to only doing it as often as he would for a non-plant-based sentient creature. Even one he's so very curious about. Is that some sort of symbiotic plant growth, like manatees and their algae sunscreen? A distant, distant relative of the swamp bromeliead?
But he's been raised better than to just ask someone those sort of potentially invasive questions. So he focuses on the dead rat, combing through the fur to look for marks of disease or flea infestation.]
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[The leather gloves he traded some simple first aid work for don't allow him as much dexterity as the latex ones he'd prefer, but they're adequate for working with things he doesn't have to worry about contaminating. Things that are already dead.]
Given that even the deer here drink blood, I want to identify any zoonotic diseases before they can start spreading to the population. Especially when you've got unreliable long-term food storage options...
[He does occasionally look up from the rat he's switched his attention to to look back up at Alec, though he seems to be putting effort in to only doing it as often as he would for a non-plant-based sentient creature. Even one he's so very curious about. Is that some sort of symbiotic plant growth, like manatees and their algae sunscreen? A distant, distant relative of the swamp bromeliead?
But he's been raised better than to just ask someone those sort of potentially invasive questions. So he focuses on the dead rat, combing through the fur to look for marks of disease or flea infestation.]