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  • Why doesn't the farmer do anything to keep the coyotes out? Doesn't he know it's coyote season? If he does, then how comes he doesn't put a barb wire fence around the farm?
    • Maybe he's doesn't actually want to keep the coyotes?
      • It's entirely possible that he doesn't know (hell, he doesn't know his animals can walk, talk, or do whatever) and his area probably doesn't have a "coyote season". Another expo is that the coyotes usually go after animals that are already out of bounds (not unlike coyotes IRL), so he probably didn't consider them to be too much of threat, much less to his chickens, which is probably supposing that he doesn't already safeguards in place for the coyote season.

  • Why is Ben the only one guarding the farm? Why doesn't he get Miles to partner up with him? Miles is a hell of a fighter and would have been to hold off the coyotes.
    • See the fridge page where it's said that Miles probably retired from his job as a farm guard.

  • So what is the Beadys connection to the farmer? Are they just neighbors or is there some blood relation? And why don't they care about the coyote attacks?
    • They seem to just be neighbors.

  • If the coyotes steal chickens and eat them, then why are they so thin?
    • It's probably because they haven't been very successful.
      • A meta explanation is that, IRL, coyotes are pretty scrawny-looking, though you could take their scrawny appearances to further emphasize them as the villians———Always hungry but never full.

  • Also, don't the other animals seem a little speciesist to the coyotes? Yes, its true that Dag is evil and sadistic, but still. They should've at least attempted to make peace with them, get them to turn on Dag and cause a Heel–Race Turn.
    • The coyotes actively prey on the barn animals; of course the barn animals would distrust them. As for why they don't make peace, nothing indicates the coyotes would be interested.

  • Wild Mike's design rather resembles a cross between Cousin Itt and Animal. This begs the question: Exactly what in the animal kingdom is he?
    • Maybe he's a young Bigfoot, or even a Feral Child.
      • He's a "WTF".

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