Shelter Applicationusername: Mic
name of leopard: Strawberry
leopard gender: Female
what are they like as a parent?: 373 words | 1 extra (art)
Strawberry is a strict parent to her young kittens and a loving partner to her mate. She has always been more on the elegant and more so unfair side of parental justice. She loves her kittens and her mate unconditionally, but Strawberry feels there must be control for there to be maintained order. So there are rules within Strawberry’s cave.
Strawberry and her family live inside a large cave near a large lake. There are many strict but fair rules to accompany their living conditions. For one, Strawberry wants neither her kittens nor even her mate to go out alone (though she is more lenient when it comes to her mate traveling outside of the cave alone). Everyone must be accompanied by someone within the family. If you go out by yourself, you will be grounded.
When you are grounded in her household, there is not very much to do other than sit in your corner of the cave. Strawberry does not like to ground her children, but she does not appreciate it when they break her rules. She does not prefer any of her kits to go outside without being accompanied by one of her siblings, as she deems it dangerous and threatening.
If someone falls into the water and is accompanied by one of their family members, she believes they will make it out of the fast-moving currents. If they are unaccompanied, they will not make it out. Hence why Strawberry reinforces this strict rule.
When Strawberry is not busy reinforcing her main rule (no going outside by yourself), she is busy making things for her kits. She acknowledges that children will be children, so she does her best to enable her kittens to be themselves. She has made each of her children a stick doll with mud and moss. She believes this will allow them to play a more open world of pretending, as she has noticed that they had played make-believe with nothing besides themselves in the past.
The stick dolls have mud-glued grass as hair, frail stick bodies, and mud-glued moss for fur. When one of these dolls breaks and is brought to Strawberry, she promises a fast and quick recovery. She will always fix her children's dolls.
stick doll:
by Saeli » Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:13 am 
