Talk:Father Knows Beast/@comment-26618197-20180902014819

And Smolder pretty much confirms my suspicions, dragons are often rude and sometimes jerks but they do care for their kids they just often make hard choices for the sake of survival. So why would a pony be able to steal an egg while one or both parents watched? Even if one parent was dead why would the other parent be gone for so long from the nest that a pony stole the egg? I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that single parent animals with eggs usually don't leave their egg alone for more then a few minutes. At the very least you'd think the parents would account for this and set aside a bunch of gems just in case one of them was killed.

Even in G1, the first special and that generation's version of Dragon Quest imply that Spike's parents are not alive. Spike's first seen being essentially raised by Scorpan and in the other episode Spike laments how he doesn't have a role model to tell him how to be a dragon.