23
May 2012
1        

If you’re curious, the likelihood a pet will mate (actually, I’m just assuming that’s what it is) is legitimately called horniness.

When I first called everyone out, the global, i.e. everyone’s averaged, horniness was at 4. 

It stabilized around 10 shortly after.  As far as I can tell, 10 is standard for when nothing else is in effect.

The whole treatz mess was partly to see if horniness would go up.  The global horniness peaked around 13.  However, when I focused on just one pet - Pickles the cosplaying chihuahua - I could track the differences better.

Giving him a Heartz treat raised his horniness by 4 points.  It decayed at a rate of 1 point every 10 seconds.  28 or so was my peak, but he never ended up mating.

Out of curiosity, I had to try setting global horniness at 100….

It was actually rather uneventful.  (There were only two out of five girls in the mob who weren’t pregnant already, however.)  Rusty the great dane and Jordan the lab did make lovey eyes at each other most of the time.

-Gracie

22
May 2012
       

I’m not sure if feeding Heartz treatz actually increases their romantic mood, but I thought it was worth a try!

… plus, it’s really funny watching them make a dogpile to fight for it.  Treat dogpile!

But then I had the terrible idea of scattering a million treatz on the ground for them all to round up.

It was funny at first, but the treatz all gradually fell to the bottom of the screen…. where they bounced cruelly up and down and the dogz were helpless to eat them.  Dog treatpile!

I ended up needing to use the Cleanup button, haha.  Praise the makers of Petz for including that!

-Gracie

22
May 2012
4         fuckyeahpetz5

moonis:

fuckyeahpetz5:

So when I was little, I had this romantic idea about letting my Petz pick out their own mates sometimes.  However, that’s kind of hard to do fairly when you can only have two Petz out at a time.

But hey, PetzA changes all that, right?  We can have a mass date at the beach because that’s romantic!

It was… kind of a lot of chaos…

And then halfway in I realized I tried to mate a harem a (few?) month(s) ago and that was only 4 catz but it was still quite crazy.  They don’t have the quality time to bond one-on-one because everything is chaos.

More of our adventures to come!

-Gracie

I’ve recently gotten into the habit of letting all my pets out at once to fill up their hunger sliders, but every time I do it seems someone gets pregnant.

there are certain dogs I can’t even take out together because the babymaking happens pretty much as soon as they make eye contact.

I legitimately snickered when I read the “someone gets pregnant.” 

I’ve always had a theory that Petz mate faster if they’ve already mated before.  And then you’ve got those Petz that are just ready to dive into parenthood after knowing the other for two minutes.  And then there’s my OTPs which won’t mate at all no matter how much I sob over how perfect their babiez would be.

And recently, I’ve also been letting all Petz out to feed at once.  ^^;  I feel a little bad about it.  Feeding is what keeps me from having 1,000 Petz ahah.  I’ll have to see after these matings if they jump on each other faster when I bring them all out again.

-Gracie

22
May 2012
4        

So when I was little, I had this romantic idea about letting my Petz pick out their own mates sometimes.  However, that’s kind of hard to do fairly when you can only have two Petz out at a time.

But hey, PetzA changes all that, right?  We can have a mass date at the beach because that’s romantic!

It was… kind of a lot of chaos…

And then halfway in I realized I tried to mate a harem a (few?) month(s) ago and that was only 4 catz but it was still quite crazy.  They don’t have the quality time to bond one-on-one because everything is chaos.

More of our adventures to come!

-Gracie

19
May 2012
       

I cannot tell you how many times this exact configuration has played out.  Sometimes sideways or upside down.  There’s just no winning.  When do I get to go first?  It’s really frustrating.

And then he took advantage of my frustration to trap me!  (I was so shocked I dropped Cocoa to take a hurried screenshot.)

He played in the middle to start us off, and I played directly under him.  Because every play in a corner ends up in the first screenshot happening.  He played in the far left corner, and - aha this is where I messed up - I went in the bottom right.

No, wait… damn, he’s good.  I had to play in that bottom right corner to avoid him winning with it.  So then he plays in the bottom left corner and I’m trapped - I have to stop him on the left, but that leaves him open for the diagonal win

This guy is kind of vicious for a kid’s game.

-Gracie

15
May 2012
2         raceagainstelegance
raceagainstelegance: arADIA HAS FALLEN FOR INDIANA JONES or should i say indiana bones  cause its a dog 0_0 Indiana Bones. Yes, new Petz headcanon. -Gracie

raceagainstelegance:

arADIA HAS FALLEN FOR INDIANA JONES

or should i say indiana bones 

cause its a dog

0_0

Indiana Bones.

Yes, new Petz headcanon.

-Gracie

14
May 2012
2         zeppe1in

zeppe1in:

omg ok

did anyone here ever play those old, derpy “Petz” computer games

you know

the ones where the pets look like this:

(this is my cat Piper isn’t he great)

I just rediscovered my Petz 5 game ( i do this at least once a year ) and sfkajhf this is very enjoyable WHY IS IT SO FUN

I just like taking pictures of them and downloading cat/dog breeds from around the internet even though most of the sites for this game are long dead.

yeessssssssss

Heard of “Petz 5”?  No, what is this “Petz” you speak of?

You may have to explain it to us.  With more picturez of cute Petz.  Because Piper is super adorable.  And also storiez of adventures.

And I love how even though some of the old Petz fansites are totally dead, they’re still online and available for downloads.  I’m planning a major hexie download run soon.  Soon.

-Gracie

13
May 2012
1        

So while I was looking through the Catz 5 manual, I noticed some interesting things.  Two of them were the Petz Publisher and Petz Web Fun Pack.

The Publisher is actually a link on the Go To menu as well.  However, it promptly stops working when I try.

According to the manual, the publisher is a guide to creating your own Petz [fan]site.  There are other services around that can still help you, though, such as Webs (many, many fansites used to be on Freewebs and Geocities). 

Even if you can’t use the Publisher, evidently the Web Fun Pack has a host of resources for creating a website!  Such as clip art, backgrounds, titles, buttons… it’s awesome!

Check it out!

All of it gets installed with the game (I think) under Petz 5\Web Fun Pack.  There are folders with all the content, but I think it’s all on that website, too (and the web pages themselves are also in your computer’s fun pack).  I may have to see about using some of the resources!

-Gracie

13
May 2012
       
Anonymous asked: I just rediscovered my whole dogz 5 cd and I got back into it enough so I bought a new catz 5 off ebay. I thought there were new playscenes? like, between dogz and catz. am I wrong or did I just not install it correctly?

These are the playscenez I have.  Other than my custom scene, you should definitely have all that. 

I thought I remembered two custom playscenez that came with the game, though.  Am I thinking of Petz 4?  Anyway, I looked in the game manual for Catz 5 (and on Amazon’s description of the product), and I don’t see any other playscenez mentioned.

Fun fact from the manual: it’s a Canadian snow scene and a European circus.

-Gracie  (And sorry for the delay!)

13
May 2012
1        

I didn’t manage to play any Petz during my college finals, but now that I’m home, I thought I would subject my Petz to their own finalz!

And what does a Dogz final entail?  I thought I’d start off with a simple come.  After that, I put them through the paces with catching a Frisbee toy… which took a surprisingly long time.  It’s okay, B for effort. 

Then for trickz training!  Down was easy, but the standing-on-the-ball took longer.  Actually, with the bacon treat, the dogz only wanted to push the ball around.  But when I switched treatz, they jumped right up on the ball!

-Gracie

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