For the pet Au: do vampires still drink human blood, and if so, how are they fed? Do people by blood-bags, is there a blood substitute, or do people let their ‘pets’ bite them?

Admin Mawile: (~০౪০)ﾉ Ohoho, I have a headcanon for that~

-So first, a brief explanations of vampire eating habits. As we’ve seen in canon, they can consume both blood and regular food, and express hunger at a lack of either. Also considering Shuu’s North Pole trip, it would be safe to assume that if they can starve to death, it wouldn’t be easy. My idea is that it’s more or less impossible for a vampire to starve to death. A lack of blood makes them weak, achy and miserable, and both that and a lack of “regular” food can make it feel like they’re dying of hunger, but neither can kill them. 

-Since they won’t die either way, most vampires owners don’t care if their pets go hungry or not. They feed them enough to keep them functional past the pain and exhaustion, and rarely any more. Blood isn’t easy to come by, not to mention annoying to keep and serve, and no one wants to waste much people food on a pet, so more often than not, they just go hungry. Vampires have to be fed something to remain functional (not dead, just too tired and drained to move), and blood can be bought at stores for exotic pet supplies, but not many owners go out of their way to keep their vampire well fed. 

-Finally, there’s a fairly common practice among vampire owners of having their pets de-fanged. Most commonly done on individuals with a history of violent behavior or acting out, de-fanging is said to be extra insurance that the vampire will never pose a threat. Similar to de-clawing a cat, it removes the main way they can do damage, with the added bonus of (supposedly) making the vampire more submissive and even tempered. The practice started out, and mostly still continues, as being used on adult or adolescent vampires that were otherwise difficult to handle, but currently, some breeders even default to it at infancy. Unfortunately, it renders the vampire incapable of feeding the normal way, and forces them to lap up or drink blood the same way a human would have to with any liquid. Some have argued that it does serious harm to the vampire’s mental state, as well.