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Permit me, if I may, dear reader, to impart upon you the story of Pouncer, one of my oldest Catz.

In Petz 2, my brother had a Siamese named Sophisto. (And yes, you will be seeing her and reading her story when I get to the Siamese section.) When we got Petz 3, we imported her, but no other Petz from Petz 2. My brother didn't want to breed her, so while we adopted Princess, Aaron, Dana, and Rufus and bred them pretty much right away, Sophisto stayed single.

One day, about a month or so after we'd gotten Petz 3, I opened up our previous versions of Petz, just for shits and giggles. I played with whatever Petz we had in Dogz 1 at the time, then Catz 1, ...then I opened up Petz 2. The original version of Sophisto was there, so I took her out and played with her for a bit... but then I saw just some random black & white shorthair we had in the game, Pouncer, at the Petz door. So, I figured, why not. I let him in too.

And suddenly, I saw that these two Catz were cooing at each other and licking each other and nuzzling each other... as if they were in love. But here's the thing. Petz didn't fall in love in Petz 2. Breeding Petz didn't come along until Petz 3! Petz 2 critters didn't even have genders! Yet I was undeniably seeing Sophisto and Pouncer lovin' each other alllll over.

I quickly exited out of the game, opened up Petz 3, imported Pouncer (as a male, of course!), and brought him out with Sophisto. I swear, like thirty seconds later she was pregnant. :D

Soooo... here's Pouncer! I guess you could say the only reason I still have his file is because he got the hots for Sophisto as early as Petz 2, but he's become very special to me all on his own. B&W shorthairs can be bad-tempered a lot of the time, but Pouncer loves nuzzling the cursor. He's just a big softie. :D

Out of the adoption center, B&W shorthairs have a few variations. They have either green eyes or that brownish-grey color eyes. While their fur doesn't come in any other colors right off the bat, some have white tips on their tails. Some of those tips, like Pouncer's, are just the very very tip of the tail, but others can have the white extend about halfway down the tail. And, of course, some don't have any white on their tails at all.



Hee hee, I'm happy I got so many reds--red's my favorite color on Petz. :D I wish I had gotten more eye mutations, though... and seriously, why did the greens get all phased out by this point? I started with a roughly equal amount of green and brownish-grey eyes, so why did the brownish-grey take over? They did in the Scottish folds, too, come to think of it... maybe they're dominant. Hmm.



Pouncer is one of my oldest Catz... now say hi to Dipstick, the youngest Dogz you'll be seeing as part of this project. :) When I bred those all-fifteen-breeds Petz that I started off with, I already had Petz with five Dogz breeds and five Catz breeds, so for the other ten I adopted the ones you've been seeing and bred them and yadda yadda yadda. As far as my Dogz went, the descendent of Dana and Rufus and Pink and Slate I had was great Dane/sheepdog/poodle/dachshund/dalmatian, so I didn't need to adopt any more of those Petz. The dachshund came from the mate of one of Dana and Rufus's grandchildren, but that grandchild's father, the mate of Dana and Rufus's oldest child... is a great Dane/dalmatian I adopted off of the petz.com website back when they still had that adoption center/matchmaking service. And back when there still was a petz.com. trolololol http://web.archive.org/web/19990117014248/http://www.petz.com/central/default.asp So I didn't have, or need, a first-generation dalmatian. But eventually, I thought... "You know, I really should own at least one of every breed."

Dalmatians seem to be the most popular Dogz breed. I... don't exactly share that sentiment. :/ I don't know, something about their faces just looks weird to me. I've grown to like it more than I used to (thanks in part to my ever-growing collection of tamsins), but there's still a lot of other Dogz looks that I prefer. But... oh well. The point is, a lot of the litters you'll see for Dogz have dalmatian faces, and if there's a purebred Dogz litter, it's often a purebred dalmatian litter.

Which is odd, because dalmatians don't really have any variants coming out of the adoption center to speak of. Each one has a slightly different spot pattern, but that's it. (Only some, like Dipstick, have the black tip on the tail for which he was named. It's all a matter of different spot patterns.)



Two-tone ears (and...no-tone ears, I guess?) are a mutation. That's interesting, since dalmatian ears always came out black from the adoption center. The spots don't mutate, which I think I was aware of. And that's just lame, honestly. I think I would like purebred dalmatians better if they could have more color combinations. As it is, only one fur color mutates. ...dull? Although these guys are cute. I like that color green some of them got for an eye color!

Next up is honey bears and papillons. :)