#tanglewoodpetz

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Blast from the Past: Petz!

Before I was a part of the simming community, I was part of the Petz community. On a random trip down memory lane through old website layouts, I found some of my old Petz website layouts too. Then curiosity had me googling Petz to see what remained of the community.

Color me surprised to learn that the community still exists and has multiple active Discords, forums, and sites!

So, of course, I had to join them.

And there's a lot of chatter in my head about all of this so I'm probably going to make a sideblog for Petz. I'm even going to reuse my old site name: Tanglewood, as it is listed on the historical list of Petz sites on the Petz Site Directory!

Edited to Add: There's nothing there yet, but I did get the header done: Tanglewood Petz

I had archived over 250 of my petz, including my very first adoption: Love, adopted on Dec 25, 1999.

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Color Me Confused

So the only one of this batch by gen 3 that still has markings is this guy:

This is what his GenePoolz profile looks like:

No alley markings! What?

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I got a Xoops hexie! EEEEE!!!!!

In the Petz Life server, everyone was super hyped about Megan at Xoops dropping a group of Hexies on the Petz Bazaar. I was worried that since she tagged 25 people and only showed 25 petz, that they were mean for specific people. But no, first come first grab.

I think I might have refreshed 30 times in the last minute leading up to 1 am for me. Staccato here was 90 coinz, almost all I had, but so so worth it! All the petz Megan put up were adopted within a minute of the shop going live.

I'm still in shock that 1) I was able to afford her and 2) I got my first choice!

Now, to try to purge the adrenaline from my system so I can go to bed. I can play with my new petz tomorrow!

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Old Haul is New Haul

All of the old petz and info I've been working from when I dive into my past is from 2006. I was in the community until 2009.

Which got me thinking, what computer was I using back then and do I still have it?

The answer took the form of digging the hard drive out of the tower 2 computers ago, hooking it up to the tower I used last. But sure enough, I found a still installed Ubi Soft folder and (and ResHack which I don't remember what that is) and my Petz 5 folder, which I didn't go digging in. I probably should have now that I think about it.

Either way, I have my old Adopted folders as well as overrides and my old hexes. I'm excited to go through it!

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First two 6th gen Persian Alleys

Ofeliya and Omar

I'd ideally like to get more eye colors, but trying to focus on body shapes and spots was enough things to juggle.

I was definitely sleeping on that brown with cream spots look. Should have had that one on my wishlist before. He came out lovely!

Both are displaying 173 silver-blue eyes, but also carry 115 steel.

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I have donated 31 litters to Petz Life Advent, 16 of which were hexed. 13 of which were hexed, I had 16 hexed litters total between PL & WW. (Holy shit, I can't believe I hexed that many different pets. I hope people like some of them. The last ones were sort of chaotic.) I also donated 10 litters to Whiskerwick's advent, 3 of those are also hexed.

I've also put a "glass ornament" offer on Petz Bazaar, that quite a few people bought and sent petz for. I made one that wasn't perfect, and the customer seems to have tidied it up after me and then the sales slowed to a stop. I'm just paranoid enough to think they said how awful my work was somewhere. But then I think, I'm not that important enough to gossip about. The novelty just wore off a little. Not everyone who has purchased a ticket has sent in a pet. They may be waiting for a new pet from advent, or just haven't picked which pet pic they want to send yet.

It's fine.

Your standing in the community isn't solely based on the quality of things you produce. Your participation and just talking and helping others is just as important.

It's fine.

You're fine.

That thing you're obsessing about has already likely been forgiven and or forgotten by the other person. It's just your anxiety talking.

Hush up in there.

In any case, I've got a bit more to do for my Petzgiving offering (I got cranberry sauce!) before it's ready to be offered up. I hope people like those too. Even if someone just saves a stamp, I'll have contributed to Petzgiving though, even if no one adopts any of the pets I've bred for it.

It'll be okay.

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I've been creating lots of petz for Petz Life Advent (only 15 days left to submit things!)

And I've got a "secret" project that I hope people will like.

But mostly I've been working on my new website Tanglewood! Yep, same name, mostly because I've still been using my prefix Tangle, and I wanted to be consistent. (Honestly, I never thought about naming it anything else.)

I've got my stamp collection up, and cliques, and I even have a Find-It game!

I had a lot of help from KingHarry with some javascript in the background for the crew sections.

The site is still under construction in some places but most everything is active. I'm quite delighted with it, really. For not having made a website in 10-15 years, I think I did an okay job.

I suppose I need a chatbox on there somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Having a place where people can comment might be useful. I've also got a lot more stamps planned! And the crew pictures are a long-term work-in-progress. But still, website! I did it! 🎉🎆

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My Show Awards page is getting out of hand. I might reorganize it next week. Too many active showing pets.

Some pets that were shown in forums (or in the past) that have different showing points compared to what's listed in PSC. So my first batch of showing petz are going to end up higher in points than SGCh, because they can show in PSC until they hit that 30 point mark.

Does that make sense?

I don't know, I'm feeling a bit spacey this afternoon.

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I'm addicted to Petz Bazaar

This girl doesn't have a name yet. Adopted her almost before Nena @ Amenity advertised that she'd dropped new petz. (I was already on the Bazaar marketplace and clicked her name as soon as the message in Discord popped up!)

She's got hidden spots. She's also a super mix with 9 of the 10 OB breeds. And a tiny percentage of "Star Catz." And bred with some OWs probably. Her mom's name is Bee. And I sort of want to name her something related to that, but "beehive" makes me think of hair, and I just got "Prized Honey" and I've got a dali named Honey. So, I'm unsure. But I do want his show name to be "Naked and Covered in Bees" ... because, well, I think of Castiel every time I see the word "bee" these days.

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Pumpkin & Macaroon

Pumpkin from Bunni. I chose her eye colors, pink and orange! Which I'm pretty sure are my favorites. Well, I mostly just like the "light" eyes. Pink, greens, blues. Orange is the only "dark" color I really like. The golds and browns and dustys and cherries are meh. Can be pretty on some pets.

Macaroon from lilibet. Soulless eyes, but super adorable. Look at that little blep!

There's so many more that I haven't introduced... oof.

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So Much Happening

Okay, so in the petz community there's

Witzy's Showing Challenge - which I've already earned enough points for stamps, and I'm back up to 35 points which is enough to claim a Mystery Petz Box (5 petz) (20 points) or a Hexed Rainbow Palette Dane. (25 points). But the thing was supposed to get people to start showing, so I feel a little bad claiming things besides the stamps because I was already showing. The danes don't feel like a have-to-have but I'm also worried about FOMO (fear of missing out).

October is Dahlia's breed focus Mutt competition in PSC

It's also apparently Siamese breed focus too in PSC

Duke Group's Fall Festival is going on, and while I am participating in the box trap and the apple bobbing, and I've already done the wordsearch and guessed for the items in the jar. I want to do the baking thing by Bunni because her Russian Blue hexes are adorable but I just haven't had the spoons.

Whiskerwick has the Trick or Treat thing going, and I need to make a "house" picture of some kind for it. And stuff to give out! I've got a litter of black and orange cats, but I'd like to have some stamps for the event too.

Petz Life has the Advent Prep that I'd like to make stuff for too, but it's a bit intimidating because people are talking about donating hundreds of litters and so many hexed pets. I'm still doing small stuff, and most of the litters I select about 4 or so pups or kittens from. I think they said something like 7-14 pets in a litter? I don't even know what the Advent thing is, but it seems like it's time based first-serve sort of thing and apparently things go really quickly?

In the more personal side of things

October sucks. We lost my Eowyn on 10/9/21 and her brother Jet on 10/21/23.

We recently learned our next oldest cat, Salem (he just turned 14) still has elevated thyroid levels even on a high dose of medication morning and night. Tomorrow we go to a Internal Medicine vet to see what might be done for him. And he's got a lump on his head. (Eowyn had cancer on her head/in her nose which started as a little lump on her forehead.) but Salem's lump is bony, so I've just had something else to worry about for two weeks since his last vet appointment and (we noticed the lump the day after his appointment).

I told my husband that if we loose another cat in October, we're just not going to acknowledge the month anymore. It'll be August-September-September-November. I don't care if the days don't line up. Just no more Octobers.

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Last 6th gens for Locations A-H line

I couldn't decide, so two get added to my crew.

Both are spotless and are carriers of grey eyes. They've got a grandpa that's black with dark grey eyes, which I think I'm liking just a bit better than the blackhole 244 eyes. My first 244 eyed dali I named "Souless," lol. Left is Friuli and right is Furat, which is an Arabic form of the name Euphrates, which is one of their parents' names, so it seemed fitting for her.

Now we have four (five) 6th gen unrelated Dalis in this line: Florida, France, Frankenstein, and the two above. 8th gen pups are around the corner! Actually, maybe that should be part of my Trick or Treat or Advent things. Hmm...

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Added 2 Purebred NIB litters to my shop!

The top litter is the Aly x Denpot 6th gen nearly spotless pups that I had advertised here.

The bottom are Fender x Jarl 7th gen Danes.

Both are purebred, not inbred, and have full pedigrees.

Edit: In the time it took to make this post, one of the near spotless pups has been adopted!

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Show Awards Pages

I've decided to upload my petz's past show awards. At this time, I'm only showing off the petz I still have in my cattery and kennels. I've retired quite few petz that had inbreeding in their line or a lopsided pedigree. I even have awards for petz I've lost between computer jumps. (Namely a lovely white dali with selfie lids and pink eyes.) My obsession with pink eyes did not start recently apparently.

I was basing my previously mentioned show points for Mocha and Wicca on an offline version of my old website, but it seems it wasn't as up-to-date as the "Show Awards" folder I found elsewhere.

Mocha has 16 points now, not 14, and Wicca has 26 points not 25.

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Persian Alley Experiment Results

After my first batch of cats didn't yield the results I was aiming for, I got a little sciencey with my groups.

Under a cut because long post is long:

Set 1:

Started with 4 pairs of Persian/Alleys and 4 pairs of just Persians

Had Black Mist's Mostly Flealess & Mutating spots Alley OW

Had Middlenight's Additional colors Persian OW

Spots had mostly bred out by gen 3

Set 2:

Started with 4 pairs of Persian/Alleys and 4 pairs of Persians

Had Black Mist's Mostly Flealess & Mutating spots Alley OW

Original Breedfile for the Persian

Almost all the spots had bred out by gen 3

Set 3:

Started with 4 pairs of Persian/Alleys and 4 pairs of Persians

Had Kismet's Mostly Flealess Alley OW

Original Breedfile for the Persian

Spots passed all the way to 4th gen

Set 4:

Started with 8 pairs of Persian/Alleys

Had Black Mist's Mostly Flealess & Mutating spots Alley OW

Had Middlenight's Additional colors Persian OW

In the middle of this experiment is when @yourselfcola told me that the spots are connected to coat type with the mutating OW is in

My goal for this project was to get a cat with all of it's body shapes to be Persian but the markings to be Alley Cat, similar to how Wood Panel Rescue's Snowshoe Scotties have full body Scotties with Chihuahua markings. The first two did achieve this, but it didn't have the result I was aiming for.

With YourselfCola's illuminating information about how with the Mutating spots file, the spots aren't connected to markings but coat, I can see how this was going to be a fail from the start.

My reasoning for the different starting ratio in the 4th set, was that perhaps I was accidentally breeding out all of the Alley, but that was a bit too much to get the body type I wanted by this generation.

I did learn that according to Unique Petz's coat color genetics guide, that both Persian and Alley original breed files only use the first of the five color slots. I did notice that with the mutating spots file, the spots use the second color slot.

My wishlist for colors from this project included

cherry coat with cream spots

orange coat with cream spots

black coat with cream spots

black coat with cherry spots

black coat with orange spots

cream coat with white spots

white coat with steel spots

If I breed these 8 pets in the right combination, I might get a few of those results. But do I do that with the OWs in place or not? I think I'm going to put just Kizmet's Mostly Flealess Alley file in. I don't think the additional colors Persian OW is very helpful at this stage (I think it only really helps the variety when adopting from the AC.)

Once I get these 8 down to 2, I guess I'll start on another 4 groups, with the set-up I had for Set 3 as that's the one I had my best results with. I won't get my different color spots but I think I prefer the Persian coat type to the Alley.

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New Stamps!

Single file so maybe they won't look awful and stretched in different views? Meh. Anyways... I need to take more pictures of pets facing the left. I know I've shown before, and my pets have gotten titles and all that. But it's been 15 years. It still feels rather "new" and exciting, even with the nostalgic tint to things.

There's some things that I've never done before -- like certain breeds I've never adopted: Papillon, Chihuahua, Scottie, etc. Not to mention the Non-Overwriting breeds like the Aussies and Rottweilers. So there's a mix of real new things and not-so-real new things. But they're my stamps, so I Do What I Want. lol.

My brain and anxiety, man. No one's going to come for me for saying something's a first for me. But I have to have that whole conversation in my head - just in case, right?