Feral Dandipuffs

Maintaining the balance of a dandipuff's bond, health and happiness are integral to raising a happy, loyal companion. When the player neglects certain aspects of this relationship, particularly with a newly hatched puffling, it may grow up with some resentment and even fear towards humans.

Causes
A dandipuff egg never touched by humans is off to a bad start. Players can share their eggs on other websites to give others a chance to give their egg attention, as well as tending to the egg themselves daily. A well-loved egg usually hatches earlier. A neglected egg, however, takes longer and the puffling hatches with a lower bond and happiness than it would by default.

Dandipuffs can be interacted with, using the 'chat' and 'interact' features. Interacting with a puff normally raises its happiness and bond. However, certain words typed by the player in chatrooms, such as swear words, phrases like 'I hate you', etc, can lower the dandipuff's bond and happiness significantly to the point of it even running away.

Rehoming a dandipuff multiple (5+) times in a short span of time can also raise the risk of it becoming feral.

Finally, providing the puff with no food or leaving it untreated if it gets sick will also lower its trust in you. If its bond and trust are too low, the puffling will grow up to be 'feral' and run away.

Effects
Feral dandipuffs are not sweet or devoted like their tame counterparts. They will refuse to gather anything for you, refuse to mate or bond with any dandipuffs, refuse to drink potions or wear items. They will also produce a foul scent, usually onions, skunk spray, or rotten eggs. You also cannot sell, give away, or otherwise relinquish ownership of them until you have tamed them, as they are very stubborn and will refuse to leave the comfort of your home, which they have decided should be theirs.

Cure
An NPC captures feral dandipuffs and tries to provide them with good homes. By visiting this NPC, you can adopt a feral dandipuff, if there are any available. She will tell you how to earn back its trust, usually by typing something specific to it in the chat and preparing it a specific home cooked meal. Eventually, with enough TLC, the feral dandipuff will revert to the personality it was meant to have. It will still, however, produce an unfortunate scent unless given a potion. The player can choose to keep the dandipuff, or give it back to the npc. There is a counter that keeps count of how many dandipuffs they 'rescued' that other users who visit their profile can see. If they rescue a certain number, they'll recieve a prize.