something I started last year and only finished now! Its Jiji (big one, meao-ixuí) and Igutsak (horned one, xoywren) with their adopted human kid.

Both xoys and meaos are able to nurse their offspring regardless of reproductive abilities or blood ties. If a meao is given a joey at any time, they'd be able to nurse it. If a xoy bonds with a baby, regardless of what it is, they'll be able to nurse it.

When a xoy's body begins preparing to nurse a baby, their horns halt any growth progress and fall. Their horns will only start a new growth cycle after a couple months feeding the baby. This is so most of the body's energy can be focused into mammary tissue growth. Here Igutsak has already been nursing for a while and his horns are growing back again, covered in velvet. (Or maybe he was just growing his horns and now won't even get to see them fully grown as he'll cast those soon)

Jiji wouldn't be able to help him with nursing as their species has joeys rather than babies... which means that even if they mananged to latch into a nipple it'd only produce enough milk to feed something less than a thumb tall. She is still able to put the baby on her pouch though, and shes often carrying her around in there.

I didn't think much about baby size/age or horn growth x time passed nursing a baby this size in this pic, I just wanted to draw them all together. Maybe I'll polish those more in the future and you'll see Igutsak sporting different sized horns or a bigger/smaller baby 🤔

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