#Sunshine Kennel English Springer Spaniel

[tanglewoodpetz]

English Springer Spaniel

Haven't posted in a few days, not because I've not been doing things, but more so because I've been doing so much. (Plus two of those days I had a migraine, so concentration to words isn't very easy.)

Anyway, I had been on the hunt for OW for a dalmatian file.

I have this pup, Kloa, from my old hard drive. She's listed as a 2nd gen purebred Dalmatian born on 1/23/2002. Her Dam was Chloe adopted on 8/8/2000 and her sire was Dusk adopted on 2/20/2001. She was bred by Firebird @ MKC.

I figured she was a spaniel of some kind. I've been scouring old websites and the Wayback Archive. All that and Petz Life Discord archives. I did finally come across a similar looking dog and KingHarry on PL discord said that poster was still active. Low and behold, Lily still had that file.

Except hers was a non-overwrite. It looked close, it had white eyebrows and maybe the scale was a bit different.

So I still searched.

Did a second spelunking and came across a folder labeled "Sunshine English Springer Spaniel." Inside was a Dalmatian.dog file. It didn't work in Petz 4 which is the folder it was inside. I was pretty sure this was my file. But now I had a name!

Searching the name netted me this way back page. Down at the very bottom looks to be the same looking dog as the file Lily had given me. I bet this was my file! But, this page says it was for Dogz 2!

I tried converting my old file to a unibreed, but that didn't work. And while I could have used the non-overwrite that Lily had given me, I wanted an overwrite version.

So I made a breed file out of a Kloa's pet file. (I liked the non-white eyebrows better).

Then I started adding variations.

10 different eye colors, linked eyelids, a brown nose for the brown coat, and a coat in either white and brown or white and black. The spots are static, though. Same every time in either color. So I don't feel it's release-able quite yet. I don't know how well they breed yet, either.

I kinda pleased with it. I mean, it's not my work, not from scratch, but I did do the LNZ variation work by hand. Trial and error with a couple of tutorials.

I've been spending a lot of time in the discord servers: Petz Life, Petzcord, and Petz Show Club, and a bit of time on Whiskerwick, RKC, and Duke's Group forums.

I haven't made any more progress on my Dali Locations A-H line, but I've breed a few others. (And adopted a handful more, oops?) I should really figure out how to share the Airtable page properly. Or at least link the other tabs so you can see more than just my cats. And I have quite a backlog of stamps to make.

But that's today's update!