Ever since post #3581, I was wondering about the utility of giving money to stray yukkuri. Having money, they could try to buy something, but I don't really see it going anywhere. In a world where killing/eating/abusing stray yukkuri is considered normal, why would the shop keeper accept the money and hand out the product, instead of taking the money and eating the yukkuri? That is, if the yukkuri managed to make it to the shop in the first place.
And even if killing them is not considered perfectly normal, you're still placing valuables in "hands" of a creature that has no power to protect itself. Like tusks on an elephant make it a target for poachers, money on a yukkuri sets it up for quick death.
The people donating money are doing the yukkuri a great disservice. Instead, they should buy appropriate yukkuri food and donate that.
If you wish to call it one, an underlying theme of the yukkuri series when it involves faceless Misters tends to be that people act more on their feelings rather than thinking things through (the elusive easiness?). Think things through and you get that story where the owner of the house is TalkingTheMonsterToDeath while he mends the yukkuri who invaded, then banishes them back to the forest. Act before thinking and you get any number of stories in which the yukkuri is beaten, occasionally for sufficient offense. Somewhere between those two you get the stories such as the one where the Marisa, though initially caught pilfering a vegetable garden, returns and gets its owner's permission to work in the garden for her food.
That's how I view giving money to yukkuri - an act that relies on the feeling of charity as opposed to the common sense of the reality in which the yukkuri live.
On a completely unrelated topic, it looks like the average yukkuri song is starting to sound decent.
I think these Yukkuri are a (comparatively) rare type in that they have a special skill, in this case singing. That gives them more worth than most feral and strays, and as I said on another picture, their novelty value would make them interesting to see in a Yukkuri museum/zoo.
^ ^ I agree. However, most people are just passing by and don't really carry Yukkuri suitable foods (only people such as breeders and trainers would probably). But it would be a much better idea.
The yukkuris would have to rely on an honor system since they have no rights. If they bounced into a store and tried to buy something they'd have to hope that the clerk wouldn't take advantage of them by stealing their money or shortchanging them. And yes, I agree that it would help them a lot more if people just gave them food instead of money.