- Karmic Overkill: While Rex's mother deserved to suffer through the Winter of Starvation and eventually die, his siblings didn't, since while they were a bit spoiled, that was the fault of their abusive mother, and they were only foals.
- Squick: As is common for Fluffy Pony work, there's a lot of pee, poop and other bodily fluids, including foals peeing everywhere when scared and a mildly bloody scene of Rex's grandmother giving birth.
- The Woobie:
- Rex is a brown foal who is abused by his mother for being a "dummy ugwy poopeh babbeh". He would have starved to death if a human owner hadn't adopted him because his mother didn't give him any milk.
- Rex's four siblings all die painful deaths. One gets eaten alive by its mother because she was starving, one gets eaten by a crow, one dies from either hunger or cold (or both), and the last one is hit by a car and crushed into paste.
- Dolly is a feral alicorn foal who is orphaned when her mother is killed and eaten by dogs. She is given a Hope Spot when a nice blue mare is willing to adopt her at first, but screams and runs in terror when she sees Dolly is an alicorn. Then a smarty comes and beats her up, and almost kills her if not for the intervention of Rex's owner. By the time she is rescued, she is convinced she is only a "munstah babbeh who desewves foweba sweepies".
- Dolly's mom is a really good mom—most fluffy mothers instinctively hate alicorn foals and will abandon or kill them, but Dolly's mom loves her anyway. She definitely did not deserve a slow and painful death from being eaten alive by a pair of dogs.
- The two foals of the aforementioned blue mare, who are accidentally killed by their mother when she runs away in a panic. One gets trampled, and the other is flung off its mother's back and fatally injured when it hits the pavement.
- Rex's grandma, the purple breeding mare in Fluffy Business, is pillowfluffed, regularly raped and forced to breed foals so she can make her abusive owner piles of money. Her "Special Friend" doesn't even want to hurt her, but is forced to when their owner injects him with fluffy Viagra. Then, when he keeps refusing, the owner gives him a second shot of it, which causes him to violently rape her and then gives him a fatal heart attack. When four foals in her last litter are stillborn (implied to be from the stress of seeing her Special Friend die) and the remaining two are unsellable brats, she's deemed to no longer be a good breeder, and thrown out with the trash and left to starve to death.
- Puffy, Rex's aunt, is also pillowfluffed and used as a breeding mare, but also has her tongue cut out so the owner can take photos of her and pretend she "rescued" her to make herself look good on social media.
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