(from the forthcoming book THE TELECRYLIC TECHNICAL MANUAL by Jeffrey Scott Holland)

The core Fren Scale consists of primarily four elements:

Grade 1. Animal-Animal. (Look at a photograph of a rabbit, then imagine that same rabbit functioning, behaving and communicating like a human despite his appearance.)

Grade 2. Anthro-Animal. (Look at an old illustration of Uncle Wiggily. The drawings are rendered semi-realistically but the rabbit wears clothing, stands and walks on his hind legs, has humanoid hands with opposable thumbs, and other anthropomorphic traits.)

Grade 3. Animated-Animal. (Look at an image of Bugs Bunny. Not a "realistic" rabbit at all, clearly best described as a humanoid with rabbit-like attributes. Grade 3 refers solely to *actual entities that look like this* and not a plush/plastic doll representation thereof.

Grade 4. Plush-Animal. (Look at images of plush toy rabbits. It's important to note that for the purposes of this classification scale, a plush toy that resembles any of the above three categories nevertheless is represented by Grade 4. The actual personality of the plush fren may be more animalistic or more humanoid.)

(While the blanket term "animal" is here used, this scale applies to any tulpafied life form, e.g. aliens, human cartoons/toys like Fred Flintstone, Frosty the Snowman, things like ice cubes, letters, vehicles, anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables, representations of a living smiling sun or moon, etc.)