#pet trade just

[internetdruid]

Am I the only one noticing this weird trend on TikTok where people post GoFundMes to buy animals—mostly birds—from chain pet stores?

I don’t know, is it weird that I find it kind of infuriating? It’s like… not only can you clearly not afford the upfront cost of the animal, but people on TikTok will gladly fund these impulse purchases—as long as the person frames it as "saving" the animal from the pet store. That’s the angle I keep seeing in these videos, and it just rubs me the wrong way.

[sleepnoises]

painting my neopets

i think you can tell which character design i came up with when i was a ten year old with a lot of free time on my hands

[hey-heigo]

furry naegiri togiri and naegami bc beastars season 3 came out recently

[sunstar-of-the-north]

...We really need a registry for animal abusers/poachers.

No, I'm not joking. I'm so tired of neglectful idiots being able to have little to no restrictions on purchasing/adopting pets.

I know that this phrase is used for kids, but I feel like it fits for pets too.

Every pet deserves an owner, but not every owner deserves a pet.

[watchthekittycatcher]

I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see a Minecraft server whose spawn is actually nice. Where the houses and roads are well-designed and well-lit, and there aren't creeper holes left right and center. It's cool to see this game being played by a group of people who actually care about how the things around them look and who actually maintain their surroundings.

[allthepandasintheworld]

nothing will be funnier than the fact that as a cult member, narinder is shorter than lamb (i think it's just bc all the followers are shorter than lamb, by design, but it's still funny to think about)

[pearl-crystals]

I did an art trade last month!!!!

So I traded art with the amazing @magicluckacorn and I drew them a coupla things!!!

For them I painted their lady River and her pet, Pearl!!

I also added something extra where I drew their AB Siffrin and AB Loop!!

They look so cool together and this what SUCH a fun art trade!!!! <3333

[whats-this-mustelid]

So this lemur is a pet surrender and in April they're sending him to a sanctuary that specialises in primates and that's all fine and good!

But.

Gotta love this part of the post where she says she would never have a pet ring-tailed lemur, NOT because they're literally ENDANGERED, in part due to poaching for the exotic pet trade, but because they're aggressive and bad pets.

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[mantegato]

got a cuute offer on my wn scary jack that im considering but also it's a fat cat y2 and there were just a bunch of reversals involving fat cats so im like. umm idk if i wanna do that </3

[gearbox-doll]

Today my mama held me for the first time since she passed three years ago. It wasn't really her. But. I got to pretend for a moment that it was.

I miss my mama.

[randomtheidiot]

What is it with foxlike canids being really good at becoming an invasive species?

[piknim]

Thinking about how i gave away a rare chicken smoothie pet thats apparently very in demand and only got freaking nesting materials on lion game in return

[glowingkorbat]

my guesses for NCUC rollout (NOT FACTS this is Fully speculating just based on the AMA and general history of tnt nonsense)

NC Mall will crash relentlessly the first week or so (bad)

there will be different UC Styling sets (not just one item) and they will be accessible only by mystery capsule, meaning you’ll have to either buy multiple capsules to get the specific one you want or you’ll have to trade other users. Capsules will be at least 350NC (very bad. Will cause new levels of userbase backlash that will probably go ignored)

Styling sets will connect to your pet permanently. Existing UCs will have it pre attached. New UCs will have to acquire their desired set and attach it to their pet in a NC Mall substore hosted by the lutari silhouette we got a preview of. Once attached it can be toggled on and off but cannot be removed, and it will stay attached when pets are trading or adopted out (generally good. Keeps some of the PC trading functioning [people who don’t want to spend real money willing to trade names for UCs], saves users from needing gift boxes when transferring UC pets between their account. Does mean you need to purchase more style sets though since you can’t swap them from one pet to another on a whim)

new artwork will generally be nice looking but some will be considered general downgrades and the whole forced change will still be met with vitriol (neutral)

well named pets and aged pets will be the primary pool and status symbol. Probably more name for name trading in general if UCs are easy to access (neutral)

As confirmed via discord, pets will not have to be pre painted with your desired UC colour to have the style set applied. Faerie, Grey, and Darigan paint brushes will deflate as they are now essentially buyable with real money but non-UC colour paint brushes will remain high. (Good for managing paint brush inflation, bad for the ethics of suddenly being able to essentially pay real money to paint your pet)

hundreds of users will quit due to disliking new art or disliking that their (sometimes) hard earned status symbols have been reduced to nothing. Two thirds of those users will come back, because after a certain amount of time on this site no one ever really quits Neopets. (neutral)

[roguemonsterfucker]

My cockatiel Bandit is molting right now and he looks so nasty 😂

If I didn't know what was happening, I'd be panicking thinking he's sick. Shoot, even though I KNOW what's happening I still am worried about him. 😂

On the plus side, I managed to get some of his shed feathers before he destroyed them so now I have a few intact wing and tail feathers from him for my collection. 👀

I always say the reason I have birds is so I can collect their feathers. It's a joke, of course. Mostly.

[selfcontainedunivcrse]

thinking of seren. my little guy. they have problems

he's a little shopkeeper and sells modded artifacts to dubiously vanilla players. he's doing severe customer service and also lying about most of it, because a lot of modded items are (practically) just decorative junk that means nothing. Yeah, this shards of uhh ... viridium.. ... it's very rare and valuable due to its. .. magical properties.. which it has... because it's green... and used in protective charms. Surely you want to buy it. Please

he also at least at one point sells Exotic Pets. Look. They're ender-cats, a totally real thing, which you've just never seen because you've never been to the end. I've been to the End. What do you mean neither ender-aligned creatures nor cats are supposed to have carapaces, you've just never seen anything outside your narrow worldview [This is an endermite.]