Really quick before bed here's some more of Hallows' very VERY VERY distant relatives,,, idk how much I'll draw them but here's a queerplatonic-polycule and their adopted Cambion baby they rescued from being abandoned :]
today’s been kind of a kickass day for media acquisition. found a catra prelim i was looking for and one of the Moebius pieces i was after. did i have to watch a video of someone flipping through a german magazine & transcribe it word-by-word? yes. but it was worth it. and i found another cancelled catboy
the catra piece though... this guy claimed she was from purrsia but from the wording he got that off the wiki before i fixed it. so i’m in a philosophical pickle here. does it count as canon if this guy thought it was true when he put it in his guide book, mattel gave him the license, and none of his fact-checkers caught it? can a guide book originate information? or is this guy just a clown? well, he’s a clown regardless. #never trust the english
i should probably track down the origin of this particular misinfo strain, though. Looks like King Borg 001 first added it to the wiki, so Mr. Beecroft would’ve been doing research between 4/17/19 and 10/9/21 (assuming it hasn’t spread). and it was published...... 11/30/21. now where did the Borg hear it....
This animal is called Zngti or Jngti on the southern Shess peninsula, and Anglophone humans sometimes refer to them as "centaur dogs" or "hawkdogs." They are an omnivorous predator that occupied a niche similar to a fox prior to domestication, and now fill a variety of roles in centaur settlements. They descended from a viviparous sister clade of centaurs where the hind limbs developed into a balancing organ similar to the tail of an Earth vertebrate, but did not specialize into claspers and a pouch such as in Tep (the silk dairy livestock).
Zngti do not have a strong pack coordination instinct and are not commonly used for hunting large game or herding livestock. In some ways they're comparable to domestic cats, often left unsupervised around food storage or crops to hunt vermin, but their territoriality also makes them useful for livestock defense or sentry roles.
Although there are no commonly held breed standards, different regions may have one or two specialized varieties for different functions. For game hunting, varieties tend to have a build similar to the wildtype but with flashy coat patterns. Tunnel hunting and vermin control varieties tend to have stout bodies and a bearded face to protect them from clawing prey and dirt entering their eyes and nostrils. Bulky guardian breeds are variously used to defend livestock, property, and children from threatening wildlife or strangers. Sentry alert breeds will raise a continuous "siren" howl through their excurrent nostrils in response to intruders. Most Zngti are work animals first and companions second, but in some urbanized regions toy breeds can be found. Derived from squat vermin hunting varieties, they are usually brightly colored with concave skulls that make them resemble a trunk-smiling centaur.
Although to centaurs Zngti are relatively small animals, they are often heavier and taller than humans. Some guardian breeds can be as large as a cow.
"Toodles the cat celebrated his 18th birthday on St. Patrick's Day in 1940. A stout 19 pounds, he is deaf and beginning to lose his teeth. Toodles is set in his ways and doesn't like his daily routine interrupted, especially... his afternoon nap." 1940. Source.