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Post by lobb on Apr 28, 2021 16:38:54 GMT -7
. : Raising Babies with Lobb : .
By this point, I don't think I need to repeat I'm new to Petz and the community. I might as well start a journal to keep track of my progress -- and if I ever feel unmotivated, I can look back on this.
You can see a list of the babies I'm currently raising right here. That's my site and very much a work in progress.
I'm still recovering from being sick and have way too much time on my hands, so I played Petz a lot. Besides making some show submissions and the challenge with Moped, I had some time left over to work on decorating the place a bit. Of course I had help from I disagreeistants
I managed to make this can vase. I'm pretty proud of it considering it's the first thing I've actually made xD I'm thinking of improving it a bit and maybe making a rusty version before putting it up for download. I initially tried to use my own art but my style doesn't fit Petz so well, so I found some free to use can sprites (of course I'll properly credit if I ever share the file).
Since I was growing some flowers to test it anyway, I decided to do a bit of gardening and spruce up the back yard.
Ah, yes, the dog flowers xD
They spent a while seemingly following the butterfly around.
I feel like it's starting to be visible how much they're growing compared to when I first got them!
Not many more pics today since the rest are in other threads
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Post by lobb on Apr 29, 2021 11:46:52 GMT -7
I'm really tired today so I didn't get to play much, but I thought I'd post here before I forget.
This a new dog! He's an adult and his name is Rory. I adopted him from a member of RKC. I just love how goofy he looks and the patch on snout.
Of course, I had to introduce him to the gang.
First up: Moped!
This started rough when he accidentally sat on Moped and Moped seemed to be ignoring him, but soon enough they were playing
Hilariously, they played fetch together! As in, Rory would swat the ball away, Moped would catch it, Rory would throw it again, etc. I had a blast watching them do this. Rory also kept tripping over Moped.
Pepper is kind of an independent spirit. He's usually off on his own doing his own thing, no matter what the other dogs around might be doing. Pepper mostly ignored Rory and tried to play alone, while Rory kind of sad.
Rory and Jonas did NOT hit it off. Jonas has a big personality and always trying to be the center of attention, so things got a bit... competitive.
His introduction to Ruffian went slightly more smoothly, in the sense that she just avoided and ignored him. He tried to get her to play with the ball. She didn't.
I don't have pictures of Rory and Raffles because I forgot and also because nothing much happened? They got along ok and wrestled a bit, pretty much, before Raffles just got distracted.
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Post by Amy on May 1, 2021 8:04:02 GMT -7
Aww <3 I love all of the pictures and what an adorable new boy you have there!
Awesome job on the can vase too! I love it!
I also really love your site! Super cute and unique!
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Post by lobb on May 1, 2021 8:33:01 GMT -7
Thank you so much! <3 I'm probably going to edit the vase a bit (right now it only holds flowers in the middle, where the marble vase would have held them) but afterwards I'm going to post it on my site. Which reminds me... I need to update it this weekend
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Post by lobb on May 2, 2021 10:37:16 GMT -7
Not much has happened this last couple of days. I'm still sick and while I'm feeling better, I'm just realllllyyy exhausted. Jonas has always seemed to be interested in tricks, so I've been training with him. I also took a lot of pictures of the various dogz for some shows. Except Pepper. I still haven't figured out what to do with him. Meanwhile, today I got two new petz in my inbox!
I think I'm going to name him Reginald. I got him from Salem.
I don't know what to name this guy/gal (I'm also not sure whether they should be male or female, I'm thinking female because I've got so many boys already?). I got him from Lee @ December, the socks and the tail tip just really got my attention.
This is a new pet I created for the May photo challenge on RKC. Her name is Sparkler.
I decided to introduce everyone to everyone else and it didn't go that well. It didn't go badly, but they mostly seemed to ignore each other? I'm also worried because some of my pets have started doing this thing where they just stop and stand around doing nothing and only snap out of it if I pick them up. Is that normal? Is it a bug? :/
Jonas seemed kind of scared and aprehensive towards Sparkler. He's like 3 times her size xD
Reginald mostly slept through the whole thing or looked judgementally at everyone. Catz! I thought Moped and Sparkler were going to hit it off for sure but they seemed kind of cautious around each other.
Reginald and socks dog kept teaming up to look hostile towards the other pets and scare them off ( ).
The funniest moment was when Ruffian (the Alley Cat) ignored everyone the whole time, but when I sent her inside, Reginald did a little sad look. Could love be in the cards for those two?
Unfortunately, Jonas has been getting sick a lot. He was sick again today! As was Raffles, poor baby. :c
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Post by Amy on May 2, 2021 11:03:40 GMT -7
Awww, what cute newbies you have!
Petz seem to stand around / do nothing / get uninterested in doing anything when they get really hungry. You might try feeding them and see if that helps.
Petz that get sick often I've found seems to relate to them being too skinny. Try feeding them more food and giving them some treats. You could train them to do some tricks or obedience or even play 'Find The Treat'! My petz love that game!
I usually feed my petz in the playpen if you are using petz 4. The bowls don't bounce around in there. In Petz 5, I use the desktop for the same reason. I usually leave food and water out for them where ever we go too just in case.
Petz will drink from the water bowl if they've been out long enough / played hard. Just leave it readily available for them.
Hope this helps!
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Post by Thor on May 2, 2021 12:01:26 GMT -7
I love Reginald!
I also had this same issue as what Amy described when I first started playing Petz without knowing how to use PetzA sliders-- when I discovered the PetzA sliders I realized all my petz were basically 0 fatness all the time hahaha I guess I didn't realize how little I was actually feeding my petz! It's a balancing act sometimes to get them all fed (and some don't want to eat 😭)
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Post by lobb on May 2, 2021 12:51:53 GMT -7
Thanks! I don't think that's it, feeding them is usually the first thing I do (I use the playpen for that) so they weren't hungry at the time. Most of them have their fatness levels around ~50, too. Moped tends to space out a lot but today was the first time most of them just consistently did that. You're right about Rory's fatness! Thanks for pointing that out. Oddly, it actually seems to be dropping? It's at 30 right now. I'm going to try to feed him more often to bring it up a bit
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Post by lobb on May 3, 2021 13:49:37 GMT -7
Today's picture of Sparkler:
I really want to get a classic-looking teddy bear for my game. And maybe some nicer pillows. I usually send them into the case when they're tired so I've never really noticed how lacking I am in sleeping-type stuff. Sparkler is so tiny! She's smaller than her plushie.
I finally figured out how to bring out more than 2 pets at a time! I wanted to spend more time with Ruffian and Raffles, so I took them to the beach. Raffles still seems a bit intimidated by Ruffian.
Jonas made sure to tag along too. Hilariously, Ruffian was near the bottom of the screen and aiming at a ball on the sand dune, but it looks like she's trying to hunt the dogs.
After training Jonas alone and spending some time with Ruffian, I brought Raffles out again.
His energy was almost full but for some reason he fell asleep after eating. Awwww.
I realised I've never paid much attention to the non-house playscenes so I decided to try them out. They feel so outdated, from the ~3D graphics~ to the names like "g*psy circus"... oof. There also seems like in some scenes there isn't a lot to do? Unfortunately, whenever hosts tried to show up my game would crash and close Does anyone know anything about that error?? I was too afraid of getting it too many times so I just left those playscenes.
I was playing with Raffles in the toy room when socks dog decided to show up. They didn't seem to get along very well at first, and at one point they both stopped whatever they were doing to just stare at me with sad looks on their faces. How dramatic. They did end up play wrestling so hopefully they'll get along eventually.
I'm really amused by how small Raffles really is! That puppy is much younger and looks so much bigger.
He's so clumsy. <3
EDIT: Oh no
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Post by Thor on May 3, 2021 15:10:37 GMT -7
That last photo bahahaha! I also love Sparkler <3
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