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Post by nyro on Aug 21, 2022 21:02:28 GMT -7
I like to naturally raise my petz so I thought I'd make a thread where I would post any updates relevant to my gameplay.
I'm sorry I probably won't go super in depth with my adventures... I see other people who write a lot about their petz with good pictures and I feel bad. But I'm not good at remembering everything and I don't know if I will be able to take good screencaps. (Unless someone knows how to quickly take screenshots that save automatically on a Windows XP virtual machine... because you can't pause Petz 4 and the in game camera is limiting). Like, when I do specific gameplay challenges I have to screen record so I remember what happened and can get screenshots/gifs from the screen recording... but it feels like it would take a lot of time and space to do this with every gameplay session and it might make me feel too overwhelmed to play the game normally.
So, I'll just start with small updates and we'll see where I go from there. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated though! I hope I can still be somewhat interesting. You can see my full crew here!
Aug 21st 2022
So a while ago, my Newfoundland Bootz (she's the Abno V3 Newfoundland, and yes original name I know lol) was expecting her second puppy with Owen, my first pet who's a Dalmatian.
Their first puppy well... I still had the V3 file in for the Newfy and she was born with er, "grasshopper legs" as Tigeranne called them in her thread lol. (Her name is Flurry, I still have her but I ended up brexing the legs). Anyway, after that I swapped the Newfoundland file with V1, which is more petzy and breeding with that version has proven to work better. (I honestly started preferring the petzy breedfiles over the realistic ones anyway).
Anyway, I took a break from Petz for some time but after coming back, I remembered Bootz was due so I started bringing her into my main file (the one I open first when I start the game so they age properly) and today she had her puppy!
It's a girl! I named her Oreo because I'm super original. (I don't have to worry about copyright names here haha). Unless someone has a better suggestion but otherwise I'll probably just stick with it.
I love her cute pink paws from the Abno Newfy V1 file
Oreo also... somehow stood up for a second with her eyes opened which is a thing the newborns seem to do sometimes lol. IDK if it's a bug or what but I got a picture of it.
I'm preeetty sure that's a Dali head she has, I know her feet and tail are definitely Newfy. She also seems to only have inherited the Newfy colours and no spots, unlike her sister Flurry who got both. The landseer markings on the Dalmatian head look interesting though. I'm excited to see her more once she gets a bit older.
Today I also adopted a new puppy - well, I was gonna raise a different puppy I had for a while that I yet needed to raise, which was a prototype for a breedfile I made. I thought the puppy was actually the breedfile but then I realized it was just a Great Dane (but looked like the breed, like an OW). I wanted to raise one from the breedfile itself, and since I wasn't really attached to the prototype one (and it had the teal eye colour instead of what the breedfile is supposed to have) I just got a new one. I hope that's not bad
His name is Dante. That was the name of the prototype one I had which actually just came from the random name generator... but it stuck with me so I kept it on this guy too. I took a bunch out of the AC and watched them to see their personalities. The other puppies kept doing the snapping animation at poor Dante (not sure if that's actually aggressive or if it's neutral) and Dante kept licking my hand so I was like... yeah I'll take this guy
He is such a curious and playful little guy! I got a lot of cute pix of him! In that second pic with him carrying the mouse, it was super cute in game because the grey mouse showed up in the mouse hole when Dante was carrying the white mouse, and he walked over to that mouse hole (which he was doing in that picture) and it looked like he put the white mouse back into its home!! Not sure if that was actually intentional but it was cute nonetheless. (I wish I got a better pic or gif of it).
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Post by tigeranne on Aug 22, 2022 2:28:10 GMT -7
Nyaww, those are some really cute pups you've got here! I'm also leaning much more towards petzy breeds than realistic ones, this time around. The poor things need to be able to move properly. It'll be interesting to see Oreo growing up, and see what she's gotten from each parent. Sometimes there are surprises. I use generators for names too, because I can never think of anything. One of them is really bonkers and gives names like 'Turf Star' and 'Bingo Thursday.' Eventually I'll probably start giving that kind of names to poor little Petz. (I mostly use it for Dragon Cave.)
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Post by nyro on Aug 22, 2022 10:05:43 GMT -7
tigeranne Thank you!! ^^ I'm curious, which name generator is that? I might be interested in using it (even for other games too) because I like naming things weird stuff in simulator games haha (my Furry Paws dogs are a wasteland of weird names and inside jokes)
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Post by tigeranne on Aug 22, 2022 10:51:29 GMT -7
Behold the terrible wonder of Wordlab! Hey, I used to play Furry Paws too. I've got three accounts sitting there collecting dust. Poor puppers....
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Post by nyro on Aug 22, 2022 16:14:07 GMT -7
Aug 22nd 2022
Speedpanda is one of the petz I'm currently raising (she was born earlier this year, her parents are two of my earliest petz). Anyway she was very curious about little Oreo today.
I swear Bootz always looks at me like she's in the Office or something
good.
Enjoy this EXTREMELY flattering picture of Hey (from Kizmet) and Sundae playing, two other petz in my currently raising folder
As you can probably tell, I like to give my petz clothes/accessories. It was time to give Dante something! I put this checkered (or striped? idk) collar on Dante and I think it suits him. I think he likes it... he just kinda stared up lol
He met the Pharaoh today. They kept staring at each other, and Dante kept jumping playfully and the Pharaoh groomed him at one point. I think they like each other, I've never seen a dog and cat interact this way before. (I couldn't get a very good image of them doing this unfortunately, they kept standing still every time I took a picture)
No Dante that's not a toy-
my favourite
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Post by tigeranne on Aug 22, 2022 17:03:34 GMT -7
Oh no, Dante.... You've opened Pandora's Box of Ghosts! Halloween started a bit early?
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Post by nyro on Aug 23, 2022 16:51:24 GMT -7
Aug 23rd 2022
Last time on Petz, Dante opened a ghost portal in the Toy Room. Today he returns to...
complete... CHAOS.
(But it's fine he'll just lick one of the many toy cars in the corner while the ghosts have a party). let's ignore the nuclear crusty ms paint speedwagon framed on the wall loool
Dante no, don't taunt the ghosts!
...What did I tell you?
"This is fine."
"The ghosts are my friends now! "
(Can you tell I just want it to be fall already)
Anyway, on another note- Oreo is 6 today! That means she can run around and explore now! (And I can see her face a bit better)
I really like the asymmetrical markings on her face. The one white ear and the one white muzzle ball on the opposing side.
Family picture! Oreo is actually Button's aunt lol (the Dane mixie in the top right). Button is the daughter of Oreo's full sister, Flurry, and my Dane, Splash.
Also, I downloaded screentogif so I might be able to get better snapshots of petz without them getting disturbed by the in-game camera (and I can better control who and what I'm screenshotting). Which I will try for the next post I make.
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Post by nyro on Aug 26, 2022 20:40:26 GMT -7
Aug 24th 2022Dante did not like my redecorating. To be honest though, who can blame him. He also met Hey today. So far they seem to get along, and Dante likes her. Aug 25th, 2022Oreo turned 12 today, so she is now independent from her mother! Bootz decided to show Oreo how to hunt, and they bothered this poor mouse for a while. Bootz also had a little duet with Oreo. She started howling and Oreo joined in.
But now I have a lot of other puppies and kittens to raise which I got before Oreo. So I’m sorry Oreo, but you’ll have to go into the storage folder for some time until I catch up with the rest of my petz.
Today Dante also reached adulthood, as he is 33. In a couple days I’ll add his pictures at 45 to his crew page. Aug 26th, 2022Sundae reached 100 today! She was one of my earliest petz so it was nice to finally get her to fully age! But she wouldn’t really stay still to take her picture, or face the right way, lol
Sundae, please… What’s even going on with your legs here?! At first I thought the back right was her front right Don’t know why but Button and Sundae decided to get angry at two separate food bowls. Just before I took this screencap Button was cowering at the dog food bowl, and Sundae was growling and shaking the leftovers plate around. Lol (There is like every type of food bowl in the playpen so it’s not like they had nothing else to eat) This pose/animation never ceases to amuse me. I also took out another pet since I knew one was turning 100 today, and I put Bootz and Oreo away yesterday. Going to be alternating between my dogz and catz! I have a lot of catz that need raising too and I’d like to have some variety. This is Vinny, he’s from Guzma and I won him from the PUGS claw machine. I actually did raise Vinny a little previously so he is 27 today. He is the first Tabby I’ve had (he has the SCP too) and I love the Tabby noises so much. I don’t know why but the meow they make is kinda weird in an endearing way. Vinny, quit attacking Button’s butt Beautiful.
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Post by tigeranne on Aug 27, 2022 12:59:57 GMT -7
Congrats on winning Vinny, he's cute! Very nice colour combo, too. Also good to see that someone else has petz that live in folders, waiting for their turn to grow up!
Is Dante going to be Dane size when he's full grown? Or bigger?
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Post by nyro on Aug 27, 2022 22:08:51 GMT -7
Congrats on winning Vinny, he's cute! Very nice colour combo, too. Also good to see that someone else has petz that live in folders, waiting for their turn to grow up! Is Dante going to be Dane size when he's full grown? Or bigger? Thank you! I really love the calico markings and the combination with the Tabby head/SCP is super cute. And yeah I think I would get too overwhelmed if I had all of my petz sitting in the adoption folder at once. I'd have to take them all out and pet them so they didn't raise neglect. I had them in their own groups at one point but now I've decided to just sort them between fully aged and the storage folders of petz that still need to be raised. (Then take out which ones I want into the main Adopted Petz folder). Otherwise I might end up with too many different group folders
Dante's breedfile (the PBK Irish Wolfhound) is based on the Dane, and I didn't change the scales too much so he should be about Dane size! (Maybe even slightly bigger)
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