#or lizard

I thought of you when I saw this

Reminder that physically striking your animal as a means of of gaining compliance (no matter how gently) is ineffective and decreases trust between you and your animal.

turn the tables: imagine that a trainer did not speak your language. would you prefer to be trained to behave appropriately by positive reinforcement and encouragement, or scolding and being swatted at and having to guess what you did wrong? would you perhaps resent the person who was harsh towards you? even if you liked the affection and sustenance they gave you, would it erase your fear of being swatted or yelled at for stepping over arbitrary lines that you can’t see and don’t make sense to you?

He lived by himself in the desert for years before he met the rest of The Four and because of this he is a little wild. And for a period of time he very much was feral. That changed of course when the rest of The Four took him in. He can almost pass as normal now, or as normal as other rebels anyway.

But people still call him feral, say he’s wild. Those people don’t know how close they are to the truth. It started in Ghoul’s first few months in the desert. Those times were hard and he was very young, and, most importantly, alone. He had to learn to fend for himself very quickly and because of that, his natural... ability began to manifest itself.

He spent his first month in the desert as a coyote. Scavenging and sleeping away most of the brutal daytime heat. It was the only way he knew to survive at the time.

You’ll sometimes see The Four traveling with a lizard or other small reptile. The kind of reptile changes on occasion but it always sits on the Girl’s shoulder. And it’ll bite you if you try and pet it. Sometimes there’s a bird. Or a spider.