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[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight screw their]] [[MalignedMixedMarriage outdated social mores]]![[note]]Initial Pilot, Chapter 6: Peanut and Grape just spontaneously kissed at a neighborhood party, effectively "coming out" as a couple.[[/note]]]]
''Housepets! the Series'' is an AlternateUniverseFic written by Valerio Pastore and posted in the fan forums of the webcomic it was derived from, ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' Originally written in Valerio's native Italian, it was at first translated to English by fellow forumite [=Lightwolf21=], with the occasional illustration, usually by Arty Stu (as well as one illustration by Rick Griffin himself). Near the end of it's run, HP!TS was written directly into English by Valerio and edited with the help of his fans.

Set in an AlternateUniverse that spun off from the arc ''Down at the Farm'', the fic itself serves as a sequel to Sinder's earlier ''[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=140 Star-Crossed]]'' (a WhatIf set during ''Down at the Farm''), its prequel ''[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=144&hilit=auld+lang+syne Auld Lang Syne]]'' (An expanded take on ''The Yarn Ball'' arc) and [=TwoTwig's=] ''[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=245 Symphony in Periwinkle]]'' (Set a few months after the ''n-ple Date'' arc and unfinished, though the parts relevant to this fic was already mostly wrapped up). All of which deal with the "Grapenut" (Grape + Peanut) [[{{shipping}} ship]] and the [[InterspeciesRomance potential sociological issues]] resulting from it and similar ones.

While starting out as a simple Grapenut shipping fantasy, the fic soon evolved into its own highly-detailed metaverse, complete with a large original cast and {{crossover}}s with other ''Housepets!'' fan fiction titles, the sheer number of which is far too numerous to name.

The ([[OrphanedSeries sadly unfinished]]) saga is split into four seasons. Each season is split into 20 "episodes" with an average of 3-5 chapters in length each, with a grand total of 325 chapters. It occasionally re-told elements from the actual canon (such as the Joel/King storyline and The Pete-Dragon game), and was sometimes edited when new details was revealed in the actual canon. (For example, when many of the characters' last names were revealed with the 2012 ArtEvolution.)

The saga begins [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=563 here]]. For your convenience, there is also a [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2120&start=0 table of contents]] and [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2099 list of characters]]. Most of the illustrations are no longer working though the majority can still be seen on Valerio Pastore's (aka Valmax) [[https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/valmax/ Fur Affinity page]]. The illustrations [=TwoTwig=] made for ''Symphony in Periwinkle'' can also be found on his [[https://www.deviantart.com/twotwig/gallery/scraps DeviantArt page]].

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!!Provides Examples Of:

* AbusiveParents: Mr. Hartford mistreats Sasha, and while not technically a parent, Mac treats his charges at the pet shelter horribly.
* AdventuresInComaland: Peanut after he received serious head trauma fighting one of the [[spoiler: PFC Rottweilers]]. It takes the effort of booth Tarot, Sabrina and Pete to get him out of there. Learning the true horrors of the Whiteman mansion in the process and that the worst was yet to come.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Booth Squeak and Spo are shown to have had ties with the Mice Revolutionary Committee.
* AlternateUniverse: Even outside of the Grapenut situation the fic quickly migrated away from the story of the main comic, though the author tried to fit in as much canon material as possible.
** The first special episode has Peanut and King from canon unintentionally warp into the universe of this fic
** Episode 16 of Season 2 sees a few members of the cast find themselves in the ''Dayshaunverse'' [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=190 from a different fic]]. And the third special episode involves the universe from the [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2285 ''Changing by the Seasons'']] fic. Booth also establishes that yes, pretty much every piece of Housepets fan fiction is canon in the context of this fic and exists as this trope.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Antares and Aldebaran Foster. Louise and Nutella Sandwich. Rigel and Naos Foster provide example of [[{{HalfIdenticalTwins}} half-identical brother and sister]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: For example, you have normally-colored Peanut alongside Grape, a purple cat. Justified with Streak and his red stripe due to not being native to this universe.
** Elpis is a green Terrier. Yup
* {{Backstory}}: The fic takes advantage of the fact that the comic mostly lacked these at the time of publishing. And isnt afraid to provide its own takes on how these characters ended up in Babylon Gardens.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Peanut. Full stop. Even Bino eventually pushes him to his breaking point.
** Simon whenever he is dealing with an [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals animal abuser]].
* BigBrotherWorship: Fino is the oldest of the litter composed by Fido, Bino and Joey. They adore him to the point that even Bino melts in his presence.
* BigEater:
** Believe it or not, Sasha. ({{Justified|Trope}}; she was pregnant at the time.)
** For canon, it's Tiger. For fanon, Elliot.
* BloodierAndGorier. The fic has quite a few fight scenes and doesn't pull any punches when it comes to describing the violence taking place during them. [[spoiler: Simon]] as an example kills one of the [[spoiler:PFC Rottweilers]] by crushing its trachea from the Inside right before it bit his arm off. This in stark contrast to the main comic which used AmusingInjuries on the rare time such things happened.
* BrokenBird: Grape has abandonment issues that her friends tried hard to console her from. Tarot is revealed to be this as well. Volant is a male example. Even [[spoiler:Bino]] is revealed to have a bit of this.
* ButtMonkey: To say Alcor's situation is less than stellar following the birth of Naos and Ringel is an understatement.
* ChangingOfTheGuard: Season 3 would move away from Babylon Gardens and focus on Terrance High. Another "pet friendly" community created for this fic.
* ChirpingCrickets: When, during a party, Peanut publicly asks Grape to marry him, thus causing instant mass silence.
* CooldownHug: Peanut does this alongside a kiss to Grape in order to stop her from trying to eviscerate Joey during one of her [[UnstoppableRage "Inner Tiger"]] episodes (brought forward by the later revealing that not only did he know of their SecretRelationship. He was the SecretSecretKeeper for a half-dozen or so others too). He tries it again when she flares up during their second trip to Uncle Reuben's farm, but with disastrous results as she was also suffering from a [[TraumaButton traumatic flashback]] to her childhood at the time.
* ContrivedCoincidence: According to The Rick, the blue-eyed wolf cub’s unofficial name is Darth Vader Sanchez. In this fic, it’s Lightsaber and she’s a girl who tends to choose a boy’s name. Whether or not this is a FandomNod has yet to be indicated.
* CutShort: The fic is no longer updated, due to Valerio's rather hectic personal life and it doesn't appear to be continuing any soon.
* CureYourGays: Flash' parents attempt this, and fail.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Oh yes. The idea of a world where animals are sentient but threated the same way as real life animals are explored in painfully realistic detail in ways the main comic didn't.
** The old Babylon Gardens Animal Shelter is notable depicted as an extreme OrphanageOfFear where animals are locked in tiny cages, barely allowed to interact with one another, feed the worst food possibly and by law no less, had to be euthanized if they weren't adopted within a certain time.
** A big plot line in season 1 is how the old Whiteman mansion used to host illegal Pet Fight Clubs. Literal BeastlyBloodsports where pets through extreme mental an physical torture would be turned into so called [[TheBerserker "Killer Whales"]] where their only purpose in life was to kill or be killed. The fic is also quick to mention that these are actually quite common and still around in some places.
** Forced neutering exists in this universe as shown with [[spoiler:Sabrina]].
* DimensionalTraveler: Streak (originally from [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=851 this fic]]). Only he and his fellow "travelers" can do it safely though as if you move into a universe where a different version of you already exist you will replace that version. [[RetGone Retgoning]] the original you alongside all the actions you ever took creating a DelayedRippleEffect that's implied to eventually destroy the entire universe you moved out of unless you exit back within 24 hours.
* DisappearedDad[=/=]MissingMom: Having pets raise their own children is very rare due to the financial stress it puts on their owners.
** Grape never knew her father and her mother was killed when she got run over by a car not long after Grape was born.
** Peanuts original owners had to chose between keeping him or his sister. The chosed the later and to this day he has no idea what happened to either his mother or sibling. Subverted when he eventually at least got [[spoiler: reunited with his father Budweiser]].
** Sasha mentions that she was born at a breeding farm and was separated from her mother at a young age.
* DrillSergeantNasty:
** Budweiser. Former instructor at the K-9 academy, he gave[[spoiler: his own son, Peanut,]] quite a hard time.
** Budweiser's replacement [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Viscount Aloysyus Odifreddo Cobram IV]]. Bud himself admits that compared to this guy he was [[GoodCopBadCop the god cop]] and the cast page describes him as probably not born but assembled in some type of Terminator factory.
** Temno and Natalie Domina: Black wolf, Captain of the Special Security Forces at Xanadu, and his human partner. Wishing them a good night is a sure way to spend a night of sufferance!
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Being created right as Creator/RickGriffin himself was starting to flesh out Webcomic/{{Housepets}} lore meant Valerio Pastore's interpretation would often clash with the way things would be explained in the actual comic.
** Squeak is described as being drawn to Dogs thanks to some very nasty experiences with her own species rather than "Big Paws" just being her fetish. She and Joel is also established to not actually be dating as said dogs heart lies with Cats.
** Tarot is initially depicted as being something of a morally questionable character with a strong hint of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans. She is also described as Sabrinas pupil rather than the reverse. And as Spirit Dragon hadn't been introduced yet booth are depicted as working for a vaguely defined "Order of Mystics".
** The Milton ferrets are mostly delegated to background characters. Their roles and work to improve pet life instead taken up by Martin Foster. Season 4 would finally give them more screentime.
** PETA is a major villain in the fic while the main comic quickly dropped them after they were introduced. Same for Bino who was DemotedToExtra shortly after the fic started and whose antics entirely became PlayedForLaughs.
** The only Milton wolves shown for most of the fic are Miles, Lucretia, Daryl and Celestia (created for the fic) which were presented as the entire pack. The rest of them not introduced until towards the end of season 2.
** Having catnip act like cannabis. As early as ''Auld Lang Syne'' Creator/RickGriffin himself would comment that depicting it as such was an OldShame as it pushed the PG rating of the comic and he didn't like how the fandom embraced it. He would subsequently retcon it to act more like highly addictive candy with no serious side effects.
* EasilyForgiven: Peanut called out on Spirit Dragon for manipulating Tarot into escaping to another dimension when the problems could’ve been solved with the help of her friends. After SD was penalized into breaking contract with Tarot, Peanut insisted angrily that the former is not needed anymore. About fourteen episodes later, SD helped Peanut and Grape on another miracle and the dog, being who he is, actually thank her and said she’s still the coolest.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase:
** Xanadu is a facility where Gottschalk creates the coolest, most futuristic stuff, military and civilian.
** The Kingpin is an underground replica of Terrace High, and it is intended as a luxury emergency shelter
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Most Babylon Garden dogs either knew or at least highly suspected that Fido and Sabrina were an item long before they came out with it. Unlike Peanut he had after all no excuse for [[TheNoseKnows why her scent was often all over him]].
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Every morning, Antares and Aldebaran wake up their Dad in a most funny/destructive fashion.
** During a snowball fight at Terrace High, a particularly immense snowball created a mushroom cloud of snow.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
** All of the [[spoiler:PFC Rottweilers]]. One has its Trachea crushed from the inside by [[spoiler:Martin]], the female is shot multiple times by [[spoiler:Janet Masterson and Earl Sandwich]] after [[spoiler:Grape]] [[EyeScream clawed one of its eyes out]] and the third is [[HighVoltageDeath violently electrocuted]] by [[spoiler:Antares]].
** [[spoiler:Grape eats Joseph-Boris Trotsky]] in a deliberately invoked IronicEcho to his brothers fate. While we are spared most of the gory details it sure did involve a lot of screaming and crunching noises.
* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: {{Inverted}} (and thus {{averted}}) immediately with the introduction of Mizar and Alcor.
* {{Flatline}}: {{Averted}}. When Peanut wakes up from a week-long coma after his run-in with one of the [[spoiler:PFC Rottweilers]], Grape hugs him so passionately she snaps off his ECG leads, giving his doctors a scare.
* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: In rare occasion, dogs and cats can walk on all fours which they consider primitive. Grape spent episodes as a quadruped to save herself the back pains from being pregnant with five kittens.
* FreakOut: Zachary, after his tragic experience, spends some time in isolation ward in the company of his lucid nightmares.
* GenderEqualsBreed:
** {{Averted}} with Peanut and Grape: their children, 3 female and 2 male, are all kittens.
** [[spoiler:{{Inverted}} with King and Bailey. They (will) have two corgi females, and a husky male.]]
* GenerationXerox: Dayshaun looks exactly like Peanut, except he's a cat.[[note]]One of their daughters, Tarot, is almost completely purple like Grape, but with a white spot on her forehead.[[/note]] [[spoiler:A [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=417566#p417566 spoiler picture]] revealed King and Bailey's pups will match their fur color, too.]]
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: Sgt. Ralph quickly befriends Alcor and Mizar after giving them pups, Joey and Blanch are also WAY too excited when Max volunteers to donate. Averted and Subverted with Alcor, who chickens out of donating for Sabrina and Fido and him doing it for Grape and Peanut is just a cover story.
* GoodShepherd:
** Saint Anthony Abbot, protector of animals, is known to have founded an order dedicated to the non-human creatures. After being persecuted in Europe during the XIV century's Great Plague, the order moved to the Americas.
** Brother Lazarus, a cat who survived multiple attempts to suppress him at a shelter, was ordered as priest by the Order, though Rome doesn't still recognize this authority.
* HairTriggerTemper: Grape has a tendency towards fits of violent rage (referred to as her "Inner Tiger") whenever she is sufficiently annoyed. While sometimes PlayedForLaughs it certainly wasn't during their return to uncle Reubens farm when she accidently [[spoiler:Clawed Peanut's face]] during an episode.
** Following this she makes a promise to never let her emotions get the better of her again. And while Nevermore was very close to trigger another one just a few minutes later, she managed with great effort to suppress it.
* HappilyMarried:
** Peanut and Grape's marriage was the first in this fiction. They started a new social trend!
** Followed by Alcor/Mizar, Bino/Sasha and like in canon, King/Bailey
* HeroicBSOD: An example is when the barn cats flirted with Peanut. Or when Tegan steals a kiss from the dog, short-circuiting him.
* HeroicDog: The Lucky Charm Grove has guard teams of humans and military dogs.
** Police dogs watch over Terrace High
** Military dogs are employed to look over the FNERL and Xanadu
** Laika was actually the first USSR cosmonaut and she returned alive from her mission of orbiting Earth three times. She became a hero and left her pawprint in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Peanut almost loses his life and spends a week in coma in order to defend his dad from [[spoiler:one of the PFC Rottweilers.]]
** Even Zachary, of all pets, risks his life to check on the kits of the raccoons who adored him.
** Martin Foster's SelfSacrificeScheme allows him to save Babylon Gardens from one of [[spoiler:the vicious dogs]], but he loses his arm in the process. {{Averted}} when the surgeons reattach it successfully.
** Later on, that same one Martin killed reappears as a ghost, and sacrifices itself to help Martin.
* HidingBehindYourBangs: Volant grew his head fur to cover his left eye which [[EyeScream was redden by acid being poured on by his abusive owners]].
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Raimund Radulph Gottschalk. While richer than the Milton Ferrets, he will go as far as possible if this will help him reach social equality between animals and humans.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Taken to the extreme with Saga, a mouse who’s as short, if not, shorter than Spo, who hitch a ride on Samson, a Saint Bernard who tower over even the Foster twin. Of course, for the romantic example, Tegan and Samson were this as well.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin:
** To pets, orange soda acts like alcohol.
** To dogs, anise works like strong drinks for humans, while catnip acts like cannabis for cats.
* IdenticalGrandson: Rufus’s granddaughter, Joline. Bud even look like an older version of his son. And don’t get started on Dayshaun.
* InterspeciesRomance: Explored in detail, especially early on. Specifically, we have Peanut and Grape, as well as [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] Alcor (male cat) and Mizar (female dog). Fido and Sabrina from the canon remain a couple as well, though Joey and Squeak's relationship comes to an end. Later, Joey started dating and eventually married one of the Bigglesworth Cats.
* JustInTime: At the last minute before the bomb inside the Foster mansion was triggered, Kevin Marsh managed to defuse the transmitter with a sniper rifle. Averted with Episode 16 of Season 2 where the heroes had 24 hours to rescue Tarot and spared several hours left upon succeeding.
* KickTheDog:
** [[spoiler:Thomas and Celia Milton]] abandoned Volant when he was a puppy.
** Grape was abandoned by her owners, and years later they came back to take her away in order to squeeze money from her co-tutor, Martin.
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler:Silver and Zen, the raccoons who originally worshipped Zach.]] This is when it gets dark for the first time in this fic.
** Rufus, the dog of Peanut and Grape's Uncle Reuben, dies of old age early on.
* LegoGenetics[=/=]PatchworkKids: [[spoiler:Peanut and Grape's eventual children.]] As a gift from [[spoiler:Tarot and Spirit Dragon]].
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: The Lucky Charm Grove for the Abandoned and the Ferals is THE shelter where any stray would willingly spend the rest of his/her life. Martin made sure that all guests are treated at the finest even should they not find a new family. Heck, they can even be PICKY with the people coming to visit them! The place has also school, laboratories, theater...
* MidnightSnack: One of the few instances where this trope is not PlayedForLaughs. Grape mentions that she tends to indulge in these but not because she is hungry. Having spent most her childhood without a home and pretty much constantly starving she instead sometimes get urges to take unguarded food simply because its there.
* MissingMom[=/=]DisappearedDad: Having pets raise their own children is very rare due to the financial stress it puts on their owners.
** Grape never knew her father. Her mum was killed when she got run over by a car not long after Grape was born.
** Peanuts original owners had to chose between keeping him or his sister. The chose the later and to this day he has no idea what happened to either his mum or sibling. Averted when he got reunited with his father thanks to enrolling at the Academy that the later was serving as a instructor at.
** Sasha mentions that she was born at a breeding farm and was separated from her mother at a young age.
* MoodWhiplash: Emotions can get yanked every which way like a rag doll at times. For the first time in the middle of Season 1.
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking:
** Mizar gets a strong desire to have a puppy of her own after holding one.
** Tegan has developed a strong attraction to Grape's kittens and will gladly spend all time she can with them.
** Blanche (a dog lover who married Joey and one of the the Bigglesworths) also dropped strong hints that she wanted kittens.
* {{NoSocialSkills}}: {{Averted}}. King finally decides to sniff butt in public to show he's a social dog after all.
* OCStandIn: The actor dog who is stated to be nobody in particular is none other than Elliot Bannister. Allegra, the cat waitress, is a minor example. Delusional Steve became this, recently.
* OhCrap: The faces that T.J., Tsuki and Zane do at the sight of an incoming humongous snowball christened ''Gamilon Planet Bomb''
* OldFriend: Felix and Lucky, Grape's old kittenhood friends. They too were abandoned before they came to live to Babylon Gardens as well.
* OneSteveLimit: {{Defied}} when Grape names one of her kittens Tarot. There is like canon the wolf Daryl and his brother the other Daryl.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Several times, ghosts of animals have had an important role in this fiction.
** Joel's and Martin's pets were furious for being mistreated in life and wanted Martin back with them, to the point of drawing him to their realm
** Martin's house in Babylon Gardens proved to be an actual [[{{HauntedHouse}} haunted house]], where its former owners used to hold a bloody pet fight business. At a point, its restless spirits started seeking {{revenge}}.
** Morrigan is the affectionated [[GuardianEntity guardian ghost of Elizabeth Rozen]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Alcor gets fed up frequently with Naos' antics.
* {{Pet Heir}}s: {{Averted}}. The six ferrets who inherited the Late Henry Milton's fortunes have lost everything to [[spoiler:Thomas and Celia Milton]] and now live at the wolves' house.
* PlausibleDeniability: As weird as things sometimes get in Babylon Gardens, it would be hard for people to accept that Peanut and Grape actually produced offspring together. So their cover story is that Alcor is the father. Their children were made as kittens, and one even has almost all white fur.
* PosthumousCharacter:
** Karl-Lenin Faust was eaten by Grape before the start of the fic. He is still an important character to Squek's backstory though as he is revealed to have been the brother of the revolutions current leader Joseph-Boris Trotsky who she used to date. But left after he essentially pulled a coup by sending his brother to die so he could be turned into a martyr for their cause.
** Tarots owner died 10 years prior to the fics start. How this works and why she isn't considered a stray aren't really explained.
* SecretSecretKeeper:
** Joey knew all along that Grape and Peanut (alongside a whole bunch of other cats and dogs) were a couple. Mainly thanks to [[KnowledgeBroker Squeak having extensive contacts]] within the mouse community and its spy network. He never told anyone though until the former two came out.
** Bino of all dogs unintentionally became this after he learned about Grape's and Peanut's relationship from having spied on the later. He was saving the potential blackmail for something good though and them coming out meant he never had the chance. He also knew about Fido's and Sabrina's relationship but never revealed it out of respect for his brother.
* SelfDestructMechanism: A real [[UsefulNotes/TypesOfNuclearWeapons hydrogen bomb]], hidden in Xanadu, ready to go off in case of an emergency that cannot be solved with any other means.
* SelfInsertFic: Grape writes one of these and is incredibly embarrassed when Peanut reads it. But it is later revealed that [[spoiler:she was writing it as a Christmas Gift for Peanut.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Pridelands'', a fictional work of which Peanut, Grape and mainly the pet cats are very fond.
** ''Doc & Smith'', a TV show featuring a sleuth cat and dog duo.
** ''The Song of the Forest'' a tale featuring a wolf befriending a female dog named Daisy.
* SpiritAdvisor:
** Peanut is snapped out of a depression after a fight with Grape by Rufus. [[spoiler:He realizes at the end it was Rufus's ghost. The old dog had just died.]]
** Mod was the friend of puppy Bino, before ending up as cat snack. Today, he is the spiritual advisor of Bosco, son of Bino.
* {{Squick}}: Bino, Fido and Fox's in-universe reaction when they learn that King is actually Joel, a former member human turned into a dog by Pete. What makes it especially off-putting is the fact that King's girlfriend Bailey is pregnant with his puppies.
* {{StockAnimalName}}: {{Averted}}. The Bigglesworth cats names have been revealed. Joey's wife is called Blanche.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Martin and Gottschalk are not the bad guys, but they protect their premises and business with the best Big Brother network money can buy. It is said that Martin's employees [[{{Squick}} must accept cameras in the restrooms as well]].
* TheBully: Fredd, Diego and Armando. Three junkyard dogs who used to give Max a very hard time and still conspire to make him suffer.
* TheCameo: Characters from the fancomic [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1357 ''Housepets!1X'']], and from the webcomic [[http://newshounds.keenspot.com/ ''Newshounds'']] appeared repeatedly during this fiction.
* TranquilFury: Martin is known for this. You do not want to mess with him.
* UnclePennybags: Martin has turned his lottery win in an animal welfare business, AND he co-adopted Peanut and Grape, AND hired their owners at a ludacrious wage.
* VagueAge: Although The Rick stated the dog and cat’s lifespan are twice that of real-life counterparts, one of his short stories retconned this to an average of 40 human years. In this fic, it’s hard to determine especially for ones who are between 5 and 20. One example is Pawdrick who is 16 years old and T.J. is stated to be about the same age as him, which means the same for his twin sister Daisy. Same thing applies to Tegan and Elliot who are 15 which is about a decade older than Peanut and Grape.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[SymbioticPossession Tarot's/Spirit dragon's]] eventual reaction to Peanut growing ever closer to Grape though they had to work hard to get there. Cemented when she pulled some cosmic strings so that [[spoiler:They could have children together]] booth as an example of this trope as well as a TakeThat towards Pete who [[ShippingTorpedo kept teasing and encouraging them]] to go between Peanut and Grape.
* XanatosGambit: Bino encouraged Peanut to join the Academy with him with the notion that if the latter became a good cop, he’ll owe the former big time thus improving his reputation and if not, it will be proof that cat lovers are too soft. Of course, this is not without challenge when Grape found out about it.
* YankTheDogsChain: Tiger gained his deserved self-esteem from the beginning and things mostly end well for him…that is, until he learned that his love for Celestia was not meant to be thus reverting him back to his old self. He’s still working out though, albeit excessively.