Beginner's Guide

Welcome to the beginner's Guide! Here you will learn what to know when entering the clown husbandry community.

## What is Clown Husbandry?

Clown Husbandry is a tag that originated on Tumblr, involving the idea of clowns not being human performers, but a species of strange animals kept as pets that entertain humans. These depictions of clowns can vary from animal like to human like, often behaving quite a bit more like animals in both case, and keeping a strong inspiration from their real counterpart.

It is a community based on the creation of art, playing pretend as someone owning a clown, and the creation of said pet clown, including behavior, appearance, diets, or anything you'd find in a pet community.

## How to find information on Clowns

Information on Clowns is often inspired from their real counterpart, so taking a look at the Wikipedia page of a clown can shed some light on what people are talking about. Additionally, a lot of the information comes from Tumblr : Looking through the tags, some common opinions appear, like mimes being carnivores, white face clowns being rather easy pets, or scare clown not being the killers media make them out to be.

Finally, a lot of information is made on the go by people to keep up the facade of a real world. If you want to answer a question, but aren't actually sure what has been said on the subject, just comment whatever you think might be interesting! If something already exist, you perhaps may get corrected for the most common opinion, it doesn't mean you cannot further your idea to make the two explanation somehow work (ex : You describe a mime that adores fruit and never eat meat. Someone corrects you, mimes are carnivore, and should be fed meat to meet their dietary requirement! But lo and behold, your mime is a particular specie that has evolved in a tropical biome where they grew to eat plant instead of meat, like a panda. Problem solved!)

The idea is that the opinion of someone else should not make you drop your creativity. You don't have to conform to all that has been said, it's simply easier and fun for a lot to put common information that we can ricochet off! If you want to have a clown that does not conform to the norm of the breed you like, you can change what you don't like : it's your own choice. Clowns, as we see them in the community, appear to be very strange creature, perhaps even a bit polymorph. If your explanation is just that your clown is a weird case, then so be it.

The wiki tries to show what to expect in a conversation when you bring one clown or another, but is also a creative work, so things in it may be contradicted from time to time.

## How to get yourself a pet Clown

There is several ways to acquire a clown :

### Breeders :

You can get a clown from a breeder, which means an artist in the community that sells own clowns designs. If you wish, you can breed your clowns yourself, making whatever your heart desire, by drawing your own clown.

### Shelters :

A lot of online makers let you create fun designs, and clowns themselves have a few. Here are a few in the form of picrews.

### Why shouldn't I just take a clown of the street?

It can be tempting to want to just grab a picture of some good art made by some random artist out of google image or pinterest to have a stylish clown with some high quality pictures, however, this is not completely moral.

If you get the permission of the owner of the art or if the art is free to use (some site like pixabay are royalty free), then it is okay, but in other cases?.. It's better just to use one of the two methods above. It is as weird as to take a well known character, say pikachu, and rebranding it as your special oc, mika the mouse with electric powers. But the problem with art on the net, is that although an image of pikachu immediatly evoke the company who created it, artists whose art is used online are simply left behind with no retribution. These characters that are found on the net belong to someone, so be courteous and treat it as if it was your art that could be taken by someone you didn't know.

In any case, using art that isn't yours should come with credit, sneakily placed below the image so as not to interrupt roleplay. Like that, the artist does get their name associated to the picture to signal that they are the owner of it.

Additionally, it is illegal to sell something that you don't own : it is therefore of very poor taste to try to sell a picture that does not belong to you as an adoptable.