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For my third Petz update, I decided to do two of the new breeds that came with Petz 5 (and, since a lot of Petz players stick to 3/4, you don't see very often at all). One of the five "new" (I say new in parentheses because Petz 5 is like ten years old by now) Catz breeds is the desert lynx. This is Mars, my desert lynx. When I went to the adoption center to adopt fifteen more, I was surprised to find out that there are absolutely no variations, not even in eye color. Mars is it, folks. :) I suspected that his fur pattern didn't mutate, either, so I wasn't expecting all that much as far as mutations went...

The results were both completely expected and completely unexpected at the same time. Expected: the fur texture doesn't mutate. The ears do. Unexpected: the way the feet mutated. Look at that! I tried to get these guys to pose at an angle so you can see it--their toes mutate independently of each other. I have NEVER seen that before in any Catz breed--or any Dogz breed either, for that matter. I was so blown away by that. It's such a small thing, but it was still more than I was expecting.

This is Mickey, my golden retriever--again, a "new" breed exclusive to Petz 5. And again, a breed with absolutely no first generation variations, not even eye color. (I could have sworn they came in tan, too--seems more realistic to a golden retriever's color. But no dice... unless if I just somehow happened to randomly pick sixteen of one color and somehow never see the other color appear out of the adoption center at ALL.)

Oh my God, you guys... this was painful. Seriously painful. I don't know if golden retrievers just don't mutate like the other breeds do, or if I was just having really bad luck, or both. But I had such a hard time getting any sort of mutation at all that eventually I just had to start breeding second, third, and fourth generation Dogz that looked just like first generations. I think between the 2-4 generations I had one orange Dogz, one dust, and a few with eyes that were a slightly different shade of brown, but that was IT. Keeping that in mind, then, while this may look like a rather lackluster fifth generation (five out of the fifteen look just like generation 1... if you're wondering about the other two creams in the bunch, one of them has blue eyes and the other has grey eyelids instead of black, YES I HAD TO SETTLE WITH EYELIDS HERE I TOOK WHAT I COULD GET), when you compare them to the generations before, it's actually really friggin' amazing. Those blue eyes just popped up out of nowhere. I got two new colors show up for the first time (grey and tan). I think if I had continued breeding more generations (which I probably will eventually do) I finally would have been getting more good results. I guess it just took five generations for things to finally at least start popping up in decent sizes.

I asked my husband to pick the next two breeds I would tackle. He picked Russian blues and Scotties. And yes... I have already bred them. (I need a life.) I'll post them tomorrow.

Again, I am having WAY too much fun with this. :D