Post by lobb on Nov 27, 2021 17:23:01 GMT -5
I'm FREEZING right now but I HAD to celebrate Raffles making it to World Legend (WLe) today!
This is Raffles. He was one of my first ever petz and I'm kind of obsessed with him... enough so that he's got his own little page on my site. He's just really fun to play with, even when I'm feeling bored or unmotivated with Petz.
This was him as a baby!
He was very clumsy and really bad at frisbee.
He seemed to like it a lot, though, so I was soon entering him in frisbee shows. I initially decided he'd join frisbee and agility shows and his friend Jonas would join trick shows.
One of my proudest moments happened during this year's DG Summer Olympics, when he got a perfect 10/10 on a frisbee trial! He's really good at catching the frisbee now ahaha. (I don't know if this picture is from that attempt, I can't remember which ones were from it)
This summer was also when I decided to show him in as many different show types as possible.
It wasn't without its hurdles. Pose shows were the hardest -- he didn't pose often and he was really hard to align properly. I'd initially wanted to get another dog to SGch for practice but I felt more motivated with Raffles.
Mousing was also really hard because he sucked at catching mice. And when he did, he'd often just groom them and release them again. He seemed to especially like the white mouse! It was hard to be annoyed when it was so cute
Meanwhile, Raffles never seemed to have an interest in flirting with anyone. I just figured he'd never have babies.
This is Caro. I got her from meowlissa at some point. She's been in my game for a while but Raffles had never seemed interested in her... until one day, when they started flirting and it didn't take long for a heart to pop up.
I actually sent them on a date.
It didn't go very well at first.
Still, they seemed to love each other. In fact, they're still in love to this day.
The very next day, a bunch of dogs were hanging out and Raffles decided to flirt with Cloudberry (fun fact: she was bred by lunarlex but both of her parents were from meowlissa!)
And yes, I got the heart pop up AGAIN.
Raffles's baby with Caro was a girl who looked a lot like him. I named her Seaglass.
Cloudberry's baby was super tiny and looked like neither of her parents. Since her mother's nickname is Cloud, I named her Rain (I'm so original)
Fortunately, Caro and Cloud didn't seem to be especially concerned about having the same mate and became friends with each other.
Seaglass as an older baby.
Rain! She was so tiny for the longest time.
I didn't want more Raffles babies, so I spayed Raffles, Caro, and Cloud.
Somehow, though, Raffles and Caro managed to have YET ANOTHER baby. I named her Hermit, as in Hermit Crab, because I'm just bad at names.
This is Flotsam.
Once upon a time, I'd thought that if Raffles ever had multiple babies, I'd keep 1-2 and give out the rest. I just couldn't do it, which is one of the big reasons why I spayed everyone. But when meowlissa requested a baby, I couldn't say no -- after all, so many members of Cloud and Caro's extended family are in her game and it seemed only right. She now lives in meowlissa's P3 game, where she dances to the music box A LOT.
(I know some people have asked me about getting a Raffles baby, even before he had any. I'm sorry! I'm just too emo! But I've been thinking about cloning Raffles and his mates and breeding them, so while the babies wouldn't be technically THE Raffles's, they'd still have his looks and genetics.)
I also ended up getting Scruffy from meowlissa -- that's Caro's mum!
Meeting his mother-in-law didn't go very well for poor Raffles.
Finally, I wanted to show off the playscene I made for the family! The painting of Raffles and the figurine are by the talented Akodara. The family portraits on the wall are a bit outdated now since they were from before Hermit was born