Blackberry and Campion

The main reason Blackberry is a female in the tv-adaptation as mainly due to the "Smurfette-principle", or simply changing genders to accommodate a wider audience! This may be a very controversial step to making a Television Adaptation of other works, an example of this can be seen in Farthing Wood, whereas the weasel, the adder and Tawny owl was male in the book-versions they were female in the TV-series. I have the feeling they did this to Lady and The Tramp 2; replacing Scooter with Danielle.. Hell, I even remember a fanart on The Watership Down source site where The Original Blackberry bumps into the Female Blackberry and even making love with his female counterpart!