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I truly get where you're coming from, mainly with the birds since they can be the most annoying sometimes. I think the bear problem can for sure be fixed by letting people with the whitelist apply for such a powerful animal or set harsher boundaries on where they can go and how we should act. But it's not just the bear roleplayers who act up, it's mostly also people who go near the bears all the time and bait a fight, but in general, as a person who has an animal white list account, you have a lot of people just running up and abusing you no joke. My current animal white list is a cat and it has been abused so many fucking times by random ass people running after me that it's traumatizing before their excuse is "My character hates animals. :)" mind you, I wouldn't let my cat character fight. So with the animals fighting is a thing on both sides since some people quite literally run up an animal and abuse it for no reason at all, and/or try to bait a fight, yet animal roleplayers just growl, snarl, and snap at everything they see coming close to them most of the time (again not all of my animal bros out there.). I can't really speak on the bird thing because most people I've met who play as a bird only fail RP, use weapons?!, and spam you with carrying requests. So yea no clue how you'd solve this speaking about the fact that a majority of white list users are birds, so higher moderation on animal white list is not possible. People should definitely report animal fail RP a lot more though since it barely happens because "dog doing dumdum unrealistic stuff = funny :DDDDD". But I truly get your point, and the people who do roleplay as a powerful animal often abuse that power, yet at the same time some of us pressure into the bear cave for no reason at all, and if you think about it realistically... no one would do that IRL. But if there is no way around it I 100% agree with you on everything. Yet I also think all the pressure and abuse put on animals on SRP should be put down a little too. There is no way in hell someone grabs my cat character because they want to steal it but they change their mind and beat my character up just because the character turned out to be a male cat, neither were you able to do much back then because once you used either your claws or teeth as an animal it already counted as a major attack which would give people perms to kill you, etc. you get my point but your reason is 100% valid.
(Apologies if grammar is off, I had a hard day at work and barely any sleep :,) )