Battle of the Furries: Rats, Rats, Rats (working titles)
Logline: when a pack of rowdy rats invade a city, Annalise and Saturn must find a way to build a bridge of unity to unite the feral, wild and domestic animals in the city to save their food supplies as well as enlist the help of a tech savvy human boy and a couple that run an animal rescue centre and as they assist, they also have try to get the children of the city to love wildlife again in order to ensure that there are some nice, caring human homes on offer to wildlife in need. Written by Jill Thrussell
The Story: Unknown to most of the human beings that occupy the surface of the earth, a war is raging all around human lives every day and this war is known to those who do know, as the Battle of the Furries. The central operation centre for the strays and wildies (wild animals) is known as the Fierce Feral Furballs Food Stashes Operations Centre (or the Feral Furballs HQ for short) where strays, wild woodland/park and other non-domestic animals around the cities, team up under their leader which in one particular city is Rapid Robber Raccoon to perform food raids on domestic pet’s food supplies (found in human homes or pet food stores) as well as human food supplies along with performing various other wildlife missions (like poacher/hunter/animal exterminator sabotage missions) to ensure the survival of wildlife. However, when a new pack of rats come to the city in huge numbers then invade and wipe out the entire city’s pet food supplies and then start to deplete human and other wildlife food supplies, the domestic pets (known as collars) have to unite and team up with the Fierce Feral Furballs because they now have a common enemy that they wish to exterminate and drive out of their city. In the middle of all that chaos, a mature couple that run an animal rescue centre on the outskirts of the city are desperately trying to assist, rescue and save both the domestic and feral animals in need that cross their paths and convince them that they can be rescued and given human homes to live a better life, but some prefer to live their wildlife in the wild and try to resist their good deed approaches and human charms whereas others object because nice human homes to live in are in short supply and the promise of better life in human homes might not actually be better for them at all.
Join Annalise and Saturn as together with the Fantastic Felines, the Acrobatic Alleycats and the Helpful Hounds, they try to find a way to unite the two enemies and to bridge the domestic/wild gap to get rid of the rats. However, they soon discover that their mission might require some assistance and cooperation from a musical male human child that has access to some robotic animal anibots with tech powers and abilities and so they try to form then build a bridge of friendship in the hope that he might be able to replicate the Pied Piper's tune then play it or be able to create another tune that has similar effect on rats to drive/lure the rats away from their city as well as creating a dance and wall of dancers (Annalise, Saturn, collars and lappers) to block and direct the rat’s path and ensure their exit from the city. The rats’ numbers however, are growing daily as other rats from across the world start to lock onto this new abundant untamed, unratraided food source and potential rat power base and so they might also need some help from the animal rescue centre but as they go about their mission, they stumble upon a side quest when they notice that pets and wildlife are being replaced in children's homes by electronic robotic animals and driven out of the city by expansion developments, so they need to find a way, with some help from the couple from the rescue centre, the Fantastic Felines, the Acrobatic Alleycats, the Helpful Hounds, the Breakdancing Brat Cats, the Broken Toys Rescue Crew (who show up to assist while on a rescue mission), Timothy and his anibots to encourage the children of the city love wildlife once again, so that some of the animals in the city can have a nice, caring human home to live in. Suddenly, however, just as the rowdy rats are about to be driven out of the city, they extend an olive branch to the Feral Furballs and Collars that surprises everyone and solves a lot of problems as they offer a shaky agreement that might just benefit all sides. Written by Jill Thrussell
Developed from & follow on project to The Christmas Happiness Wishlist Trail & also developed from Island of Wonders
Project Themes: caring for nature, goal congruence, teamwork, compromise, finding agreement, harmony between humans and nature