Flippert seemed excited to meet a new friend, he made some squeeky chattering noises. And shook his fur, Olivia thought he looked like he was showing off again.They are so cute!
Olivia thought this was a good questions. Can there be black or white pygmy puffs? she asked, and she also brought out the notes she was taking earlier on ways to get a pygmy to stop eating boogers. She thought it would work if we scared a pygmy out of eating boogers.

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Anything else to add about pygmy puff genders?

Yes.

"Male pygmy puffs are FLUFFIER than the female ones!" Selena exclaimed, one hand in the air and the other putting Kent back on her head. Selena was pretttttty sure of that. Kent and Violet proved it. Kent was fluffier than Violet was. And nicer. Because Kent let her pet him. And Violet... didn't. And she had proved that by petting Kent. So she'd never know if Kent was actually fluffier, but he looked fluffier.

"This is true!" Williamson acknowledged with much enthusiasm, smiling at Selena the Pygmy Puff expert. Good job to her! "Males are usually fluffier in an effort to attract females with their beauty." Interesting fact.

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They hadn't discussed it, but Keefer thought he may take a stab at it. Both hands in the air, he waited for the Professor to look his way before beginning. "Is it possible that coloration is different? I know male birds are often more brightly colored in order to attract a mate. It's possible the pygmy puffs are like that, or maybe certain fur colors can only be male or only be female?"

And speaking of fur... "Or perhaps the texture of the fur is different."

"It is possible, and you're right in comparing pygmy puffs to birds. Males of both species tend to be brighter in color."

He hadn't noticed anything about fur textures, though.

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We diddnt get arround to discussing the activity, but Female pygmy puffs have a higher pitched squeek then males do. Olivia said as her pygmy puff ran along her arm.Oh, and whats the difference between a pygmy puff and a puffskien, besides their size. I mean, would a baby puffskien technically be a pygmy puff?

"Good question," William tilted his head, "A baby puffskein is still bigger than a baby pygmy puff. So no, they're two different species now."

But, she was right about the squeaks. "Females do have a higher pitched squeak. Good."

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And then he heard his name being said. By the professor. He should probably answer, right? "I, well, like she...said-" Could you call it 'say' actually? More like stuttering. "-we assumed that there might be some differences in behavior. Or well, since we know that her Pygmy Puff is a male we could just put him in a huge cage-" Because he didn't want them to feel imprisoned or anything."- with a lot of other Pygmy Puffs during mating season and well observe. See what her Pygmy Puff does. And to whom." Get it? Yes? Somehow his partner hadn't been too thrilled about this idea, though.

Then because his gaze had dropped down to his Pygmy Puff and he remembered what he had just been thinking about earlier, he added, "Or maybe the males do something during mating season to attract the females. Like dance around them or something. Like a rooster." Looking back down at the Pygmy Puff, he added more to himself than to the professor, "Okay, maybe not dance." Because he really couldn't exactly see it doing a dance. Maybe it would flap its ears or something.

William had to hold back a laugh at the mental imagery that came from putting a male pygmy puff in a cage full of female pygmy puffs during mating season. That was just...well........ and that was how pygmy puffs were created, kids. That was how.

He didn't say that though, no. Instead, Williamson listened thoughtfully to the boy's answer and noded slowly. "The males tend to make a sort of high-pitched humming sound above our human level of hearing during mating season, sort of as a call to females." He eyed the class to make sure they were writing this down. "But other than that, there really are no major differences in behavior that I have noticed between the two genders."

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"I'm not sure how, Professor, but I think you can tell the difference by how they sound when they squeak. And perhaps...their colour? They come in different shades after all... Maybe the darker shades are one gender, and the lighter shades another?" Tayla was thinking aloud and hoped she at least got close to being correct.

"Yes, excellent, as we've said, you can tell by their squeak whether a puff is male or female. There's actually a prototype for a pygmy puff squeak-o-meter out on the markets now, so look for that coming to your local pet shop. That should make it much easier to tell whether a puff is male or female."

As for the shades... hmm. "Males tend to be brighter overall, but there is no specific color that one gender favors over another. Males can be pink and females can be green, so you just really have to play it by ear," pun intended, "to figure out which gender your puff belongs to."

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Ella and Keefer hadn't really discussed the gender question as there was lots of talk about the name and about...tongues! Wait a minute...Ella raised her hand as an idea popped into her head. "Professor, could the length of their tongues help you to tell which is male and which is female?" It was a long shot but Ella figured she'd give it a shot anyway and waited for the Professor's reply.

Hmm. Another good question!

"I've never actually thought of that, Ella," Will nodded, "but I suppose you could! I would assume that females, actually, have longer tongues, since they tend to be slightly larger than the males." Another fun fact for the class to jot down.

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Zhenya's big eyes widened as Professor Williamson said they could try to make it to sell. "WOW! Thanks professor!" she said, super excited.

Then she turned to Ira to exchange a giant smile.

Now... what about their genders? She didn't really know anything about the anatomy of a Pygmy Puff, but she raised her hand anyway, "I don't know anything about their gender... but could they like different activities, or do they prefer the same sort of activities?" she asked.

She knew some boys liked to play sports, and some girls liked to play dress-ups, but sometimes it was the other way around too. If the Pygmy Puffs did like different activities, there could be an observational tactic in determining their gender.

"Great idea!" Williamson grinned at the clever Slytherin. "We might be testing your theory of which activities pygmy puffs like best in just a few moments, but for now, I'll like to sum up what we've learned so far."

He flicked his wand at the empty wall space beside him so the notes came up nice and bright, replacing the ones from earlier.

Pygmy Puff Genders

• Males are brighter in color
• Males are fluffier
• Males make an extremely high humming sound to attract females
• Females have longer tongues
• Females have higher-pitched squeaks
• Both have different reproductive organs

"So," Williamson cleared his throat awkwardly, not exactly knowing how to phrase this next part, "If you can't determine your pygmy puff's gender by one of the first five distinctions, you can always try to locate its hidden ah.... reproductive organs, which are unique to each gender, and um, rather difficult to find...."

And he was not going to go into any more detail on that. Ahem. The professor picked up his own pygmy puff and perched him on his head, grateful for the distraction Nerf provided, and instead looked around the barn for another group and another topic.

"Let's talk about what pygmy puffs eat! I know a lot of you tried various creative methods of figuring this one out! Somebody, please share."

Annabelle felt sorry they didn't get a chance to discuss but she agreed what her partner said. "Hmmm i think i want to know, what is the rarest color a pygmy puff can be? and what is the most common color?" [/QUOTE]

Flippert seemed excited to meet a new friend, he made some squeeky chattering noises. And shook his fur, Olivia thought he looked like he was showing off again.They are so cute!
Olivia thought this was a good questions. Can there be black or white pygmy puffs? she asked, and she also brought out the notes she was taking earlier I think we half to go down this list and discuss it Olivia said holding it up.

Laura looked at the Professor and smiled. "Do they eat cars, and busses and things made of metal?" She had seen a film where this small create ate things like that and so she decided to guess.

Flippert seemed excited to meet a new friend, he made some squeeky chattering noises. And shook his fur, Olivia thought he looked like he was showing off again.They are so cute!
Olivia thought this was a good questions. Can there be black or white pygmy puffs? she asked, and she also brought out the notes she was taking earlier I think we half to go down this list and discuss it Olivia said holding it up.[/QUOTE]

We could scare the pygmy out of eating snot Olivia suggested.

She could tell just by looking at Flipert that he was male, his fur was brighter and longer then squishy's. Olivia picked up her pygmy and squeezed at the corners of it's mouth like a snap dragon, yup Flippert had a short tounge.What does squishy's toung look like?Olivia asked Annabelle.
In responce to the professer's question Olivia said over her sholder, They eat lots of things other then boogers, they eat dust and little bits of food off the floor. They might also eat flys Olivia guessed the last one, but it seemed like it might be right.

Keefer was surprised to get an affirmative answer from Williamson. It had mostly just been a guess. I suppose it did match up with other examples in nature, though. So maybe it was a moderately educated guess.

With then end of discussion on that topic and the posting of the notes, Keefer got back out his parchment and quill. He copied down was was written, exactly as it was written. He tended to remember things on tests or in life by closing his eyes and picturing it on the board, some notes, or a poster. Thus it was best to copy down the version he was currently seeing.





Keefer earnestly hoped he would never have to resort to checking a pygmy puff's gender in the.. more invasive manner. I hope a bunch of first years don't start giggling. That was the worst. The giggling.

Fortunately, the professor decided to speed the conversation along. Diet, right. We didn't talk about that. But that didn't mean he couldn't take a stab at the answer. He raised both hands.

"Professor Williamson, me and Ella didn't talk about this, but I think it makes sense that they would eat similar diets to Puffskeins. I mean, they were bred from Puffskeins and share many of their qualities, so it makes sense. Since Puffskeins are scavengers and aren't particularly picky about what they eat, I would assume pygmy puffs also have a wide variety of foods they will consume."

Of course, he could be completely off, as well. It had been known to happen.

Oh! Sophie and Jory had worked on that question! She raised her hand while standing up to able to look at Professor Williamson. There were a lot of taller students there!

"Professor, we tried feeding our Pygmy Puffs and wrote down what they ate and did not eat." She looked at Jory, indicating the parchment where he had been writing the list, then back at Professor Williamson. "We tried Chocolate Frogs, chicken, wheat bread and..." What was the other thing again? She looked down at Jory. "Oh yeah! An apple!" Which was the thing they ate ADORABLY!

"They didn't seem to like chicken and wheat bread, but they ate the chocolate frog and the apple!" Sophie nodded while she spoke. Then she looked curious. "Does that mean that these Pygmy Puffs don't like these things or that aaaall Pygmy Puffs don't eat chicken and wheat bread?" As in, do they have different gastronomic taste or something?

Alyssa waited while the others made their presentations and when nobody else answered, she raised her hand and presented what Taylor and her had come up with.

"Professor, Taylor and I, both came up with a list of food that we thought the Pygmy Puffs would most likely eat, and like Keefer said, we assumed that since they were related to the Puffskeins, that they might also have the same similar eating habits. This is the list that we've worked on so far.

Text Cut: List of Food that Pygymy Puffs eat

1. Cookies
2. Leftover tuna sandwich (check)
3. ants (check)
4. lettuce (check)
5. carrots
6. apples (check)
7. chocolate frogs (check)
8. nose boogers
9. spiders (check)
10. hay (check)
11. rats
12. leaves (check)
13. pencil
14. shoelaces
15. hair
16. paper
17. grass
18. jello
19. worms
20. pudding
21. pie

So far we've from what we've been feeding them, we have noticed that they tended to like to eat some of the stuff us humans, or the other creatures would eat. But there were some stuff that they wouldn't eat and it makes sense because we wouldn't like eating them either. We haven't gotten round to seeing whether they liked eating nose boogers, even though that's what Puffskeins are known to like, because neither of us had any nose boogers to spare right now. We also ran out of food to give them but we'll continue with our food taste once we replenish and get access to the dead rats in your creature food supply cabinet."

Amelia listened attentively as her fellow classmates shared their thoughts about Pygmy Puff genders. It was rather interesting, and she was determined to see if Pixie was in fact a female; if not it would have to be remedied. She wondered if she could name the Puff after her brother in that case.

When the points were recorded on the board, Amelia quickly jotted them down into her notebook before looking around to see what her classmates would have to say about what Pygmy Puffs ate. Since Edvard and her didn't do that topic she'd stay silent and just write some more notes.

"Hmm well professor i know my pygmy has a habit of eating a lot of dust and that is a huge help in my house for my mom with allergies. " Annabelled raised her hand to answer the question.


We could scare the pygmy out of eating snot Olivia suggested.
She could tell just by looking at Flipert that he was male, his fur was brighter and longer then squishy's. Olivia picked up her pygmy and squeezed at the corners of it's mouth like a snap dragon, yup Flippert had a short tounge.What does squishy's toung look like?Olivia asked Annabelle.
In responce to the professer's question Olivia said over her sholder, They eat lots of things other then boogers, they eat dust and little bits of food off the floor. They might also eat flys Olivia guessed the last one, but it seemed like it might be right.[/QUOTE]

Annabelled examined Squishy. Her fur seemed to be shorter and less brighter than Flipert. So the only conclusion that her pygmy was a female. Annabelle went inside to see Squishy's mouth. Squishy was very gentle and let her look at her tongue. It seemed long and she also had a high squeak but she knew Squishy was a female already. "Here Olivia, Squishy has a long tongue." Annabelle said as she showed her.
"Hmm looks like Squishy is making a new friend." Annabelle smiled. Squishy had a high squeak which means she likes Flippert. "I think they will become best friends. But i think you are right they do eat dust, flies and food because i always drop food on the floor. Hmm i think they like to eat grass. I know mine does."

Taylor took down the notes. She listern as Alyssa told the professor their discoveries. Tay tried to resist (but fail horriblely) to not wrinkle up her nose in disgust at the rats and snot. She had made up her mind to not test those two things because 1.rats are gross and carry diseases.... especially dead ones and 2. the snot was also gross but also indecent. She wouldnt have any problems testing anything other than two things though. When Alyssa was finished talking, Taylor added, "They seem to plants a lot..... maybe that is because plants are natural? or maybe it helps soothe their upset stomaches kinda of like what grass does for dogs?" She wasn't sure if that was right or not so it came out a little bit like questions.

Zhenya hadn't thought of this question at all, but she was quite excited to test out what activities they liked. She had a quick thought and raised her hand, "Professor do they eat little insects, like ladybugs, flies, cockroaches and things? Or do they live on a more herbivore diet of things like grasses, and leaves, and vegetables and fruits?" she didn't know, so she thought she would ask whether they were omnivores or herbivores. Well, she didn't think they were carnivores.

Lily was quietly sitting in the back petting Blueberry as she listened to people share their information that they had gathered. She hadn't gotten the chance to study anything so she just tried to stay out of the way. Once they had summarized genders, Lily pulled out her notebook and scribbled some things down.
Once she had her notes down, Lily looked up towards the front again, listening as people mentioned what the puffs ate.

Ella smiled as Professor Williamson told her and the rest of the class that tongue size was actually another way to determine gender. She was happy that she hadn't given a far fetched answer.

As the new notes appeared on the board Ella started to copy them over to her notebook, wanting everything in case they would need it for homework. She tried not to giggle as the Professor talked about the puffs-er-lady and gentleman parts. She would much rather find out if they were males or females by one of the other ways listed on the wall. Besides, she couldn't imagine Barnabus would be happy if she went looking for his private parts!

Then the class was talking about food and Ella became hungry. Why oh why did that always happen at the mention of food? Her and Keefer hadn't discussed that topic either but she was curious about something. "Professor, I was wondering if there is anything that pygmy puffs shouldn't eat. I mean are they allergic to any foods? My dog can't eat chocolate because it makes her really sick."

Minerva sat quietly listening to the other students. She waited until it was time to talk about their research, magic powers. She played with the pygmy puff in her lap a bit. It was so cute she defiantly needed one of her own.

Selena beamed at the professor. Of course it was true. IT WAS PROVEN. Kent was fluffier. Enough said. She kicked her legs back and forth. The professor could say as he wished about attraction but to Selena it was just about being awesometastical. Yup.

She looked at the notes then at the green pygmy puff on the professor's head. Then frowned. HEY. That was Selena's thing. Psht. Professor was obviously jealous he wasn't Selena Zabini-Riddle. Because he was putting his pygmy puff on his head now. Ridonkeylous. The professor was a copycatter. Hmph. She would pay attention to this one though. And she had a few things to say about it as well.

"I put my pygmy puff in a basket of bread once. Kent didn't eat a bite of it. He started to eat someone's snot."

Yup. True story. What a waste of bread. Now... back to eying the professor for COPYING her pygmy puff balancing ways.

Sierra shrugged, as well. She knew they were just random guesses, not proven facts. They were also more than what Sierra had come up with, but she wouldn't admit that out loud, of course. She did smirk when the girl concluded that Pygmy Puffs were unimportant balls of fluff. "Pretty much," she said. "I mean, I've never heard of them doing anything significant, and I grew up in a pureblood household." She'd have heard of something by now, she'd guess.

Then she blinked. "You carry tomatoes and salad lettuce in your bag?" she asked. Maybe the girl just liked a quick snack every now and then. Or maybe she was half-rabbit. Who knew. "Well, let's give it a go then. So as long as the Puffs don't start eating snot..."



Sierra had literally just raised her hand to say something about male creatures usually being of a brighter color, when the professor waved his wand and summarized that and more right up on an empty space of wall. She read through the list then made a face at the thought of locating a Pygmy Puff's reproductive organs. Right. Err, ...she'd just trust the whole 'males are brighter' theory.

"Maybe the Pygmy Puff's eat types of plants," Sierra suggested, raising her hand. "Lettuce, maybe...or other plants." Anything with leaves, pretty much. "My partner has some tomatoes and lettuce in her bag." She gestured toward her partner. In other words, could they test the theory now?!

"It's nice to meet you, Glenn," Stella said, a bit curious at how the girl's name didn't quite seem like a normal girl's name. She wasn't about to question that, though, as they had better things to do than discuss their own names. She smiled as the purple pygmy puff burrowed itself deeper into the blonde's hair, however. "Elliot seems a bit nervous," she observed. her own pygmy puff seemed perfectly fine, perched on her shoulder, but then maybe Glenn's wasn't as used to so many people. She didn't know yet if Elliot was a personal pygmy puff or borrowed, after all.

"I don't," she said, in response to the question, as she craned her neck to look at Nuage for a moment. The tiny cloud-like puff wasn't telling her anything, though, so she turned back to the Hufflepuff after only a moment. "Maybe. It's an interesting idea, at least," she continued, only to get cut off by the professor as he brought everyone back together as a group to discuss the ideas from the groups. Apparently they'd run out of time, which she felt bad about, but now, it seemed they were going to possibly find out the actual answers to the question they'd briefly addressed.



Shifting Nuage back to her lap so she could take some parchment out of her bag, Stella wrote down everything that Professor Williamson had written down. Apparently her and Glenn hadn't been entirely wrong with the idea that male pygmy puffs were different, color-wise. not only that, but by that theory, Nuage was female. That was always interesting, although it only mattered if she actually bothered seeing if she could keep the pygmy puff after the lesson. That was still an idea, but for now she wanted to pay attention to the discussion.

Jory examined his 'Puff. He was likely to think Furballl was male. He was very bright in colour and quite fluffy.

Jory raised his hand.
"Professor, they seemed more inclined towards a plant based diet, I think. Although Sophie and I didn't get to try a lot of food,the 'Puffs really seemed to like apples and to an extent, chocolates as apposed to wheat bread and chicken.''

Kurumi, having already said her piece, sat in silence listening to her classmates as they shared their findings and theories about pygmy puffs. She had to admit that she was a little disappointed when Professor Williamson informed them that the creatures were not asexual. She would have liked for them to reproduce like crazy and fill the barn with fluffy cuteness. Jotting down some notes about gender identification, Kurumi decided to give it a shot with her own pygmy puff.

Removing the coral pink puff from her shoulder, Kurumi glanced around the area at the other pygmy puffs and tried to measure the brightness of its coat as opposed the others. Momotaro II's coat WAS rather bright. Much brighter than the coat on her former pygmy puff. Kurumi then slowly pat the top of the creature. Seemed fluffy enough.

Looking around nervously, Kurumi turned the pygmy puff over and began...searching through its fluff. Kurumi really had no idea what she was looking for, to be entirely honest. She was content believing that pygmy puffs were delivered by storks just like human babies were. But, Professor Williamson had mentioned something about reproductive organs, so on a search she went!

Suddenly, Momotaro II began to bounce in her hands, its big eyes locked on something near Kurumi.

SQUEEEEEEEEK! SQUEEK SQUEE SQUEEEEEEEEK!

Kurumi's eyes widened a bit. Looked like she didn't need to search for its...whatever...

SQUEEEEEEEEK! SQUEEEEEE SQUEEK SQUEEEEEE SQUEEK SQUEEK!*

*pygmy puff translation: Laaaaaaaaadies! How YOU doin'?

Well, OBVIOUSLY it still deserved a name. Lewis couldn't help but frown at her slightly, seeing as her words came across as a little reproachful. He had never said it didn't. He just hadn't been sure they were allowed to. "I don't know." Duh. That's what they had been trying to find out. How to determine a Pygmy Puff's gender.

"But Cuddles sounds fine. It's a quite...unisex name." He nodded slowly before scooping up the yellow Pygmy Puff and holding it up. "Hullo Cuddles!" He said pursing his lips, using a voice which was normally reserved for talking to toddlers. But the little furball was just so cute! He even held right under Renesmee's nose for her to say hi to it too. Because you know, she had come up with the name and all. She was like its godmother now.

Raising his eyebrows at her, Lewis was still a little taken aback by how protective she seemed to be of her Pygmy Puff. "Yeah, I got that." Had she honestly thought that he was going to snatch him up and lock him up in a cage with a couple of other Pygmy Puffs. No, he wouldn't do that. He wasn't allowed to after all. His green eyes flickered over to where she had left (?) Puffles for a moment though. He didn't look very well protected right now.



OOOOOOOOOOH! Professor Williamson seemed to like his idea. At least he didn't react in any way like Renesmee had. Not the least bit. And hey, maybe that actually WAS the only way to find out which was which. Maybe they could try that some time. Because you know, the professor might be allowed to breed Pygmy Puffs. And he could help.

Oh. Okay, there seemed to be other possibilities to determine a Pygmy Puff's gender after all. Lewis quickly jotted down Males: high-pitched humming to attract females to his list and scratched out all the other behavior-related notes. He then tilted his head slightly to frown at Renesmee. It was her fault he had said the wrong thing after all. She had said that her Pygmy Puff was behaving differently. Yes.

His attention was caught by the professor again when he wrote down the distinctions on the wall. And Renesmee had been wrong AGAIN. They totally had reproductive organs. And they could be seen too. He turned his head again to point out exactly that when he saw that she had her two index fingers in her ears. What the...? A little unsure of what to do about it and CLEARLY confused too, Lewis finally reached out and poked her cheek to get her attention. There was something seriously wrong with this one.





Listening to what the other people said about what Pygmy Puffs ate, Lewis jotted down a few notes once in a while but his main focus was on his Pygmy Puff. They had visible reproductive organs and he was going to find it. It had to be somewhere. And he wanted to know if it was a he or a she. So scooping it up once again, Lewis softly turned it on its back and started to run his fingers over its belly. Hmm. There was nothing there, maybe-

Before he got any further however, the Pygmy Puff gave a little squeak and rolled over again so it could stand up. It then turned around to face the opposite direction, staring intently at...something. Following the direction of its gaze, Lewis found himself looking at Kurumi whose Pygmy Puff had started squeaking like crazy. What was going on?!

Looking back and forth between the two Pygmy Puffs a couple of times, Lewis was about to wave a hand before his Pygmy Puff's eyes to get it out of its stupor when it turned around quite swiftly so it was facing him again. And...had it just huffed?! Could Pygmy Puffs huff? And somehow it was holding its head a little higher too. "I think it's a girl." Lewis muttered to nobody in particular, stil staring down at the Pygmy Puff in his hands curiously.

Seriously, what had that been about?!

Sophie watched and nodded as her partner spoke. She had not tried to figure out if her Pygmy Puff was male or female yet. It didn't even have a name, so she could check it all out later.



Suddenly loud squeeks were heard. "What...?" Sophie looked around and saw that the Gryffindor prefect's Pygmy Puff was having a fit or something. She looked at it curiously and just after a few seconds realized her own Pygmy Puff was going in its direction. "Hey, you!" She rushed and grabbed it. She looked from her Pygmy Puff to the prefect's. The latter was definitely brighter and looked a little fluffier than her own. "You're a girl then!" Cool, now she didn't have to bother searching for whatever she should search to find out its gender...

Tayla laughed a little and nodded. "I think we're ready to pass this," she said to Butterfly and smiled. She got ready to roll up their parchment and hand it to the professor.


Tayla cuddled Teacup and tried to listen to her pygmy puff's squeak. It seemed high-pitched, so Teacup was probably a female... Maybe.

Tayla and her partner hadn't talked about what pygmy puffs eat, but Tayla decided to try feeding Teacup something from her pockets. She had chocolate and owl pellets. "Hmm..."

She fed Teacup the owl pellets first. It took a little nibble, but after a while it stopped eating them. Then Tayla fed Teacup a chocolate truffle. The pygmy puff nibbled on it until it was finished.

Tayla raised her hand. "I know they like eating bogies, Professor" - Ick! "I fed Teacup an owl pellet and she ate a little of it...but I don't think she liked it much. She does like my chocolate truffle though. She finished the whole piece I gave her." Tayla realized she had been referring to her pygmy puff as female, and though the squeak of her pygmy puff was high-pitched, Tayla wasn't completely sure about Teacup's gender yet.



Tayla turned her head towards the loud squeaking sound. It was coming from Kurumi's pygmy puff. A moment later, Teacup was squeaking, too. "SQUUEEEEK! SUEEEEEEEEEEK!" Not as loudly as Kurumi's but definitely higher in pitch. "Definitely female..." Tayla thought. She watched as Teacup gave one final squeak, it's eyes looking straight at Kurumi's pygmy puff. "Er...Professor? What's going on?"

Now she felt a little silly. Right course he didn't know, thats what they we're trying to figure out. Ness gave herself a facepalm and giggled to herself a little."Sorry, I'm a bit slow today." Surely he could see that already though, and he didn't need her to tell him, but meh she said it anyway.

True, Cuddles was a name that could have been used for boys and girls, but personally Nessie thought it was a girlish name, not that she'd tell Lewis she thought that. He seemed to be happy with the name, and there was no need for unwanted comotion. Raising a brow, she watched as the older badger talked to he's little fluff ball like it was some baby. Yes it was cute and all, but it wasn't a little infant it was a pygmy puff for Merlins sake. Nessie couldn't help but giggle he did look funny.

Wait.Oh he wanted her to say hi too? Ness looked at the little fluff ball and stroked its yellow fur. "Nawww, hello there cute little Cuddles." :| She sounded like she was talking to a baby too. She blinked a few times as she realised it. She didn't speak like that to Puffles did she? she hoped not.

Feeling a small nudge on her shoulder, Ness turned to the indigo ball of fluff, he had woken up now. "Good." she said sternly as she lifted her little Puff and held him close to her chest. Yes she was shnuggling him, and no she didn't care if peopel thought she looked weird. He was her little baby and nothing would stop that.

Yep, she didn't care what people thought. She would keep her ears blocked the whole lesson, even if it meant missing out on important information, she didn't care and no one could stop her..no one except Lewis.

"OWWWW!!" Out of shock Ness took her fingers away from her ears and instead put her hands over the spot in her cheek, where Lewis had poked her. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Oops..she just shouted that, in front of everyone. Nessie went bright red even brighter than her hair, not just because she was angry but because she was embarrassed too. Her shouting had frightened Puffles which was why he jumped away from her and went over to where Kurumi's pygmy puff was.

O___O

That was just insulting. Ness frowned and burried her head in her hands, that were on her desk. She didn't want to watch this either. People would hopefully leave her alone now.

Puffles on the other hand seemed to be squeeling too?

Sqqueeeeek! Squeeek!

Elise shuddered as WWW started talking about Pygmy Puff reproductive organs. Eww.... Moving on, they were unimportant balls of fluff. And the unimportant ball of fluff on her head yanked on her head, like... REALLLY HARD. Reaching up, she pried its claws or whatever they were out of her hair. NO MORE PAIN!

"You did?" she asked her partner, before sifting through her mental files for records that matched. Realizing just then that she hadn't found her name out yet, she grinned sheepishly. "I'm Elise, by the way," she nodded, quite nearly toppling over from the force that was the Pygmy Puff. And the stupid ball of fluff re-attatched itself to her hair.

Pulling a ziplock bag from her bag, she looked at the Professor for a moment before holding a brightred baby tomato in her left hand. "I'm vegetarian," she shrugged, as if it explained everything. At least she wasn't part bunny...

Looking at the WWW, she raised her hand. "They're vegetarian!" she giggled before groaning in pain as the fluffball grabbed her hair again. "Professor, why's it yanking -ouch!- on my hair?!" she moaned in frustration before covering her ears to shield them from the high pitched humming that seemed do come from Honey.


Oh, Merlin!