>>13502424It's based off of something that, while called a fire-rat, is supposed to look like a badger. If you watched InuYasha, the coat that he wore was made of its hair. This comes from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, an old folktale from japan.
>>13502442I know, but I have been around both dogs and foxes multiple times and much preferred the latter to the former. My mom was a wildlife caretaker you see, and dogs were my family's pets. The dogs were louder, slobbered, and were much harder to train believe it or not. The Foxes acted like cats that could be trained, in fact most of them used a litter box, and I taught one, a grey fox that I named Spirit,
I was seven and it was the best I could come up with, how to fetch, sit, lie down, and roll over, more than I could ever do with one of the drool factories my brother kept.
>>13502460Both of the others have had their own themes haven't they? I forget what the water one was, please remind me if you remember, but Grass always had reptiles, funny that their dropping that this gen too.