Kingdom of Knuffel

Oh gosh sorry, I know none of those :o But I think I like the intelligent telepathic ones better!

What kind is the Jane Yolen's ones?

Hmmmm, I last read those books back around in '89 or '90, so it's been a while. They're quite feral, at first, and are bred as fighters as well as food -kind of like early chickens and roosters, I guess?- but have a lot of cunning and better memories than roosters, for sure -as well as being bigger and a lot more dangerous.... although I think it gradually comes out they're a fair bit smarter than you think at first, it's just an alien sort of smart so it takes a while to see and recognize?
It's been a while, I don't really... I should go re-read them. I was, at the time, a lot less interested in the dragon portion of the books than in using them to try and understand the interplay between humans of widely disparate power levels (that society has feudal-level power imbalances, and at the time I was reading them my family was trying to explain our history to me and the whole concept of slavery was really hard to understand, so the distance of seeing something similar in a non-threatening fantasy book got my attention a lot more than the dragons did)

Akili: Ah... I see. Kinda surprised to hear that they're bred for food though haha Never heard of a dragon bred for food.

Yeah, understanding slavery at a young age can be a bit cray lol

Zuralli: Then you'd have to find an appropriate owner for the turtle :'o I would fear and not trust anyone to handle my precious baby haha

Zuralli, you'd probably like my bees, then. They'd be just fine if I up and left for good. And as a collective/hive they also have the potential to outlast a whole family line of people.... although they'll probably end up migrating themselves and up and leaving, what with climate change and all.

Nankuii: Humans do have a long history of looking at animals and going, "I wonder what that would taste like?" so I guess it kind of makes sense if you posit a world where they aren't rare/endangered. And, yeah, that wasn't a concept that came right away, it's the sort of thing you grapple with your whole life.

Or... exist at all xD I guess if I think about it now, it wouldn't surprise me if there were people who would eat dragons

In reality I like cats. They're pretty self sufficient. But they're cuddly too. It's a nice combo.

I don't know what kind of fantasy animal I would like.
A dragon does sound really cool. Or like a psuedo dragon from DnD? Which is basically a dragon the size of a large cat.

Hm.

It occurs to me that I'd never have to worry about uninvited guests again if I had a basilisk as a door-guard...