Petz: Calicoes and Poodles
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commander30Okay... two down, twenty-eight to go. :D
So, what this project is--I'll be breeding up to five generations of purebreds. Perhaps, once I feel like devoting more time to this project, I'll go for all eight generations. For now, though, with five generations, what that means is that I'm starting off with sixteen first generation Petz from the adoption center, breeding them, then breeding their kids, then breeding their kids... and so on. With the first generation I bred up to five times, stopping if I got a mutation. By the second, third, fourth, fifth generations, I didn't need to go very far to find them. If you are purposely trying to get mutations (and using PetzA, of course), it's actually pretty easy, I was happy to find.
A note about mutations, for those of you who don't have Petz and don't know what I'm talking about, relax. :) Mutation simply means something being bred that isn't in the adoption center, aka first generation, variations. Mutations can be eye colors (which could, theoretically, be anything) and fur colors. In Petz, there are ten naturally occurring fur colors. You can see them here. (I would be more inclined to say tan rather than sand, and brown rather than chocolate, but you can see what they all are there.) So the point of this project is to get as many of those as possible in my purebred Petz, combined with differing eye colors.
I've started this off with my favorite Catz breed and my favorite Dogz breed--calicoes and poodles. Since I've bred a ton of them before, I came in knowing what to expect.
Calicoes have always been my favorite breed of Catz for many reasons--their fun personalities, the sheer number of varieties in purebreds, how great they look in mixies as well... they're just all-around awesome. I think most Petz owners agree with me. :)
For my project, I adopted fourteen new calicoes, generation one, from the adoption center... but for my eighth breeding pair, I decided to use my calico mainstays, and the ancestors of all my bred calicoes in my game, Calicoo II and Jester. So here they are, and I can talk a bit about the first-generation variants and what I'm looking for in mutations.
Straight out of the adoption center, there actually aren't many variations with calicoes. They come in one of three color variants--predominantly white (like Calicoo), predominantly black (like Jester), and predominantly orange. They only have one eye color, too--that green you see both of my lovelies sprouting. :) So a variation could be as small as just one of their three main colors (or the smaller patches, which are also tan, as you can see), since all of those areas mutate separately. Or as small as just an eye color mutation.
As I mentioned in my last entry, I bred my calicoes kind of stupidly and haphazardly, so some/most of these turned out inbred. Oh wells. I still got some pretty decent mutations by only the fifth generation:
If you're wondering what the second-to-last one is doing there... look closely at the eyes. They're ever so slightly a brighter shade of green than the calico standard.
All in all, I got some decent results. I have other calicoes that have far more amazing mutations than these, but those are like 30+ generations of breeding, and these were slammed out in an hour or so, so overall I'm pretty happy. :)
And now... for the Dogz portion of my update--the poodle project.
Remember what I said about many people sharing my favorite Catz breed with me? That is not true at ALL for Dogz. :D No one breeds poodles. I think, in my like fifteen years of being in the Petz community, I've found maybe four websites that had purebred poodles for adoption--and two of those had sections for every breed, so those can hardly count. Poodles don't show pose like the other Dogz do, and they have a very snooty personality. I love them, though. :) I love the stuck-up way they walk and act, even though they still deep down are as playful as any Dogz. And they have the most adorable puppies ever.
Again, as with the Calicoes, I adopted seven breeding pairs of poodles from the adoption center, and used my poodle mainstays, Pink and Slate, as my eighth pair:
As far as poodle mutations go... poodles straight out of the adoption center can have either white fur, like Pink and Slate here, or black. The black ones have grey feet/under fur, whatever you want to call it. The white ones have either pink or grey, as you can see from my main poodles. But an important note about pink poodles like, well, Pink. The pink only shows up in first generation poodles. You can breed two pink poodles together and they'll overwhelmingly have the grey feet like any other poodle. They may get one of the other nine natural mutations, but they will never pass the pink down. They have either grey eyes like Pink's or bluish-grey like Slate's.
Poodles also come in two sizes. Pink and Slate are standard poodles, and there are also miniature poodles. Also, most poodles come out of the adoption center with their fur cut that way, but none of their children do--they've got the "all natural" look. As far as mutations go, there's of course eye color, main fur coat color, and also their feet (and presumably the underfur, but because their outer coat isn't cut, you can't see it). I've never seen their muzzles be a different color, so I assume those will always be grey.
And... here are my fifth-generation, NON-inbred poodles!
I got five out of the ten colors... not bad! One of those five, white, didn't show up in the fifth generation, but that's okay, with Pink and Slate as my founding poodle couple I have enough white poodles as it is. ;) The black poodles, of course, aren't a mutation either, because of the first-generation black poodles in their family tree, but at least they all have eye mutations. Of course, I'm more interested in the cream, blue, and tan poodles I got. And I got a few foot color mutations, too! Plus a lot of miniatures... which I'm quite happy with. I don't have enough miniature poodles. Again, not bad at all for only five generations. :)
Coming up next... tabbies and sheepdogs. :)
So, what this project is--I'll be breeding up to five generations of purebreds. Perhaps, once I feel like devoting more time to this project, I'll go for all eight generations. For now, though, with five generations, what that means is that I'm starting off with sixteen first generation Petz from the adoption center, breeding them, then breeding their kids, then breeding their kids... and so on. With the first generation I bred up to five times, stopping if I got a mutation. By the second, third, fourth, fifth generations, I didn't need to go very far to find them. If you are purposely trying to get mutations (and using PetzA, of course), it's actually pretty easy, I was happy to find.
A note about mutations, for those of you who don't have Petz and don't know what I'm talking about, relax. :) Mutation simply means something being bred that isn't in the adoption center, aka first generation, variations. Mutations can be eye colors (which could, theoretically, be anything) and fur colors. In Petz, there are ten naturally occurring fur colors. You can see them here. (I would be more inclined to say tan rather than sand, and brown rather than chocolate, but you can see what they all are there.) So the point of this project is to get as many of those as possible in my purebred Petz, combined with differing eye colors.
I've started this off with my favorite Catz breed and my favorite Dogz breed--calicoes and poodles. Since I've bred a ton of them before, I came in knowing what to expect.
Calicoes have always been my favorite breed of Catz for many reasons--their fun personalities, the sheer number of varieties in purebreds, how great they look in mixies as well... they're just all-around awesome. I think most Petz owners agree with me. :)
For my project, I adopted fourteen new calicoes, generation one, from the adoption center... but for my eighth breeding pair, I decided to use my calico mainstays, and the ancestors of all my bred calicoes in my game, Calicoo II and Jester. So here they are, and I can talk a bit about the first-generation variants and what I'm looking for in mutations.
Straight out of the adoption center, there actually aren't many variations with calicoes. They come in one of three color variants--predominantly white (like Calicoo), predominantly black (like Jester), and predominantly orange. They only have one eye color, too--that green you see both of my lovelies sprouting. :) So a variation could be as small as just one of their three main colors (or the smaller patches, which are also tan, as you can see), since all of those areas mutate separately. Or as small as just an eye color mutation.
As I mentioned in my last entry, I bred my calicoes kind of stupidly and haphazardly, so some/most of these turned out inbred. Oh wells. I still got some pretty decent mutations by only the fifth generation:
If you're wondering what the second-to-last one is doing there... look closely at the eyes. They're ever so slightly a brighter shade of green than the calico standard.
All in all, I got some decent results. I have other calicoes that have far more amazing mutations than these, but those are like 30+ generations of breeding, and these were slammed out in an hour or so, so overall I'm pretty happy. :)
And now... for the Dogz portion of my update--the poodle project.
Remember what I said about many people sharing my favorite Catz breed with me? That is not true at ALL for Dogz. :D No one breeds poodles. I think, in my like fifteen years of being in the Petz community, I've found maybe four websites that had purebred poodles for adoption--and two of those had sections for every breed, so those can hardly count. Poodles don't show pose like the other Dogz do, and they have a very snooty personality. I love them, though. :) I love the stuck-up way they walk and act, even though they still deep down are as playful as any Dogz. And they have the most adorable puppies ever.
Again, as with the Calicoes, I adopted seven breeding pairs of poodles from the adoption center, and used my poodle mainstays, Pink and Slate, as my eighth pair:
As far as poodle mutations go... poodles straight out of the adoption center can have either white fur, like Pink and Slate here, or black. The black ones have grey feet/under fur, whatever you want to call it. The white ones have either pink or grey, as you can see from my main poodles. But an important note about pink poodles like, well, Pink. The pink only shows up in first generation poodles. You can breed two pink poodles together and they'll overwhelmingly have the grey feet like any other poodle. They may get one of the other nine natural mutations, but they will never pass the pink down. They have either grey eyes like Pink's or bluish-grey like Slate's.
Poodles also come in two sizes. Pink and Slate are standard poodles, and there are also miniature poodles. Also, most poodles come out of the adoption center with their fur cut that way, but none of their children do--they've got the "all natural" look. As far as mutations go, there's of course eye color, main fur coat color, and also their feet (and presumably the underfur, but because their outer coat isn't cut, you can't see it). I've never seen their muzzles be a different color, so I assume those will always be grey.
And... here are my fifth-generation, NON-inbred poodles!
I got five out of the ten colors... not bad! One of those five, white, didn't show up in the fifth generation, but that's okay, with Pink and Slate as my founding poodle couple I have enough white poodles as it is. ;) The black poodles, of course, aren't a mutation either, because of the first-generation black poodles in their family tree, but at least they all have eye mutations. Of course, I'm more interested in the cream, blue, and tan poodles I got. And I got a few foot color mutations, too! Plus a lot of miniatures... which I'm quite happy with. I don't have enough miniature poodles. Again, not bad at all for only five generations. :)
Coming up next... tabbies and sheepdogs. :)
