Thank you guys!!
Here is another picture of Dash, out and about in the RV, that my mom took today...with a hilarious photobomb from Killian, yawning in the kennel behind him!! xDDD Or is he hissing? Also possible...poor Dash doesn't currently smell familiar after where he's been, so there's been a lot of nervous hissing from the others...but I'm sure they'll get past it soon.
Moonflower , thank you for helping point out further proof with his markings! I was really looking at the forehead markings too, but the added pointers made me see even more in-depth just how alike he is...and realize how unlikely it is that this is anybody other than Dash! I'm now fully convinced...my mom says she's about 90% sure. I told her what you guys have been saying, that this cat is simply too similar to be anybody else, but I think she's still horribly confused by having seen his body before.
I tell her that I believe this is Dash, but I will
never understand how he survived. I'd have said it was impossible...
erica@rome You're
kidding!! That is horrific!! I am so sorry to hear about that! The only thing worse than having your home burned down...is when somebody did it to you deliberately. (I assume, anyway, from how you phrased it...I suppose there's a slight possibility you could have meant it was a mistake, but it sounded deliberate.) That is deadly, and even if you survive, the loss is just unthinkable...I can't even fathom what goes through someone's head to make them decide to do that to someone! Nobody deserves that. And it sounds like you lost quite a bit more too...I'm so sorry. I really am...I especially know the fear and hurt right now and I wish you didn't have to know how that felt!
I'm glad you're safe too! That very nearly could have been the end for you...my goodness...please stay safe, and if there's anything I can do to help cheer you up, I'd like to! I'm afraid I don't have a lot to give with my hexies and bred Petz not being here at the moment (we'll find out within a few days if they can be saved...WISH ME LUCK!!) but if I can get them back, I'd very much like to try and get together some Petzy presents for you, if you'd like something like that! ^^
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A new image of Petz was added to the first post...some of which you'll see down below!
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I'm pretty sure I said that when Fiku's puppy can come out on his own, that I'd let her breed with Texas next. But uh. They won't do it. They're all kinds of flirty one second, then they're being total dorks together the next. xDD They have such a sweet relationship...seems more real, since they show they not only love each other, but are also the best of friends. I'd love a puppy from this pair...but I'll let them go at it naturally, if they will...hopefully we can get somewhere soon!
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Here's the most recently fully-grown pups! <3
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Two of my newest pups, Lace and Licorice (from
Rylan!) were playing together shortly after I adopted them, and they were being so insanely cute. xDD They're friends, and they LOVE that plush raccoon, and they were taking turns dropping it at my cursor to get me to play fetch, then they'd race each other to get it before the other! xD There were tons of toys to play with, but they both had to have THIS ONE!!
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...Okay, so am I the only crazy one who does this? Sunshine was downloaded from
commander's site...she is a purebred Calico, meant as breeding stock, not really as a personal pet, but...I kind of feel for those Petz sometimes. They want a home, and someone to play with them and love them too. And downloadable adoptions
are a thing, so why not give a home to some breeding stock every once in a while? I actually needed Sunshine for her Calico LNZ (more on that later/down below) but I did think she was quite pretty, and...I don't know. I just didn't have it in me to use her and delete her. So I decided to let her stay! <3
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Bunni recently sent me this absolutely beautiful girl, Sweetheart!! She's INSANELY cute, has beautiful pastel colors, and is about as soft and mellow...in looks and personality...as can be!! She's a kitten right now, but if memory is correct, she's a no-grow so she won't really get much bigger than this. xDD I can't stop gushing over how pretty and cute she is and just AHH I love her so much!!!
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Oooh, what have we here?? I HEXED. These are my first official hexies since the fire! But my gosh, I had to do it! These are made to look like the dogs belonging to the friends we're currently staying with,
Tess and Kona! (Cuteness warning!! xD) I am so in love with their dogs, oh my gosh. Kona is so cute it could kill, and he's always doing those head tilts and has such amazing ears and facial expressions, and he's also quite tall and leggy! And Tess is crazy unique looking! She looks like a black and white dog at first glance, but she has patches of BRINDLE on her arms and legs, and the top-back area of her head!! They are so freaking cute, and possibly one of the best things of sharing space with another family, because it means I get to help take care of them and play with them...and after losing Peppy...it does feel good.
ANYWAY I'm not looking forward to saying goodbye to them. Especially since they're both quite old. (Over ten, but I forget the exact ages) They're living very healthy lifestyles, so they could last many more years, but for all I know, they could be gone soon...this might be the only point in my life I get to really spend with them, and I feel like it'll be very sad when we're moved out and I can't see them up to their hilarious antics every day.
So...I HAD to hex them...so I could always carry a piece of Tess and Kona wherever I go. <3 And one of their owners is THRILLED, haha!! Usually when I show non Petz players what I've hexed, they're mostly weirded out by Petz in general and give a sort of "Huh, pretty cool." and that's that...and it's majorly underwhelming. x'DDD But she was CRAZY about them and is super pleased, goes on about how much they look like them and she just loves it!! That made me happy, haha!
Tess is a Sheepdog, since she likes to sleep on her belly lots, or stand and stare vacantly, and Sheepies do that. xD Plus I thought it would be adorable with the trotting and belly-flopping, and I was right! Kona has a bit more energy and likes to play, and seems very terrier-like in his behavior, so I made mine a Scottie! They both love playing with this one yarn ball in-game, and it was funny because they both want to race each other to fetch it...and Tess CANNOT keep up with Kona to save her life, poor thing! x'DDD They're also friends! I made sure to have a pair that got along!
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I also hexed these, and they were entirely unplanned!! So, I like to hex on the Mutt base whenever I create a new dog. That's what I made Tess and Kona off of. But, if I put the Mutt lines onto the Sheepdog or Scottie files, it crashed. So to get the personalities I wanted, I hexed them entirely on the Mutt file, adopted a Mutt and a Sheepie/Scottie, and I copy-pasted the Tess/Kona LNZ onto the Sheepie/Scottie...and got what I wanted with them. But...this left me with two extra Mutts I really didn't have any plans for. And, I don't delete Petz, so, this meant I had to keep them! But they had no unique looks, so I decided to do something simple but fun with them!
This is what I got! Palisades is a Bernese Mountain Mutt, and Nevaeh is a Pointer Mutt!
Simple, but I kind of love how they turned out!! I've been wanting to do some simplistic Mutt hexing for a while now...Mutts are so much fun to play with and hex on, but I haven't done anything quite like this before, and I've always been meaning to...so this was the perfect chance! I love my new pups!! <3
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And lastly...one more incident of the two previous images!
Indie also belongs to the friends we're staying with...and I also adore her, and don't want to say goodbye when the time comes...so, I decided to hex her as well! And just like the previous ones, I did a breed swap after adopting her, which meant I had a leftover Calico (who I needed Sunshine's LNZ to get a typical Calico look back) and I made her over too!
So firstly, Abigail, since she's simpler. But I always loved these dilute Calico colors together, and thought it would be fun to make a simplistic Calico with those colors. I also made her slightly smaller, to add to the dainty look she had going on. And she does tricks!! I taught her to bellyflop!! xDD I love her soft colors and textures. <3 Her name is bittersweet to me...she looked so much like an Abigail, I couldn't NOT use the name...but that's also the name of a kitten who passed in the fire, though she was an all black kitten. Who you can see
here, and
here...we had her for such a short time, and she was only just becoming comfortable with us after doing so poorly on the streets...ugh... </3
ANYWAY...yes. I had to use the name. xD It really does suit her, and she turned out quite cute!!
Now Indie...LOL I had a lot of fun with her. Hexed her on a Calico base, but she is an Alley Cat in personality...but she has Chinchilla Persian sounds, since the real Indie has about the highest voice I've ever heard on a cat, and it's ADORABLE!! I also reversed the eyes, so for every time the Alley Cat is angry, this cat looks sad or calm. In the rare times she APPEARS angry, she's actually chill. xD The down side is, sometimes she gets those derpy cross-eyed faces...if I were going for stronger realism in this, that would be annoying and disappointing. But it makes me giggle too much for me to be mad at it, so it's kind of a bonus. LOL
But the thing with real Indie...I call her bi-polar. xD I like to think I'm good at reading cats after having had so many, but Indie still surprises me. She is very sweet and loving, but turns to hit and hiss very suddenly. I think it's mainly when I smell like my other cats...she doesn't like it, and I've learned to avoid it by keeping washed up or changed out of 'cat clothes' when around her, and she likes me better. xD But sometimes I still accidentally spook her and she hits me. Or, she'll grab my hand, bring it close to force me to pet her...then she flips out on me for touching her. (...REALLY?? xDD)
So in short, she's very sweet, but changes to hissing and hitting in the blink of an eye if you're not careful. And when my sister used to catsit for her, she was especially moody. (Again, I think it was the fact that she smelled like many other cats though.) So the absolutely random Alley Cat with its' moodswings seemed perfect for her...yet I didn't want her to look angry all the time. And I also wanted her to appear deceiving, which she does as she hisses at me or swipes angrily...with her eyes looking innocent. So I think I caught her rather well. x'DDD
And boy is it hard making black cats look unique...and not like a painted black Calico!! I tried...and I do rather like the result!
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Thank you for looking, and thanks to those I've adopted from!! <3