March 2024

Issue #18


🥚 The Great Easter Egg Hunt hosted by Megan @ Oasis WHISKERWICK PETZ FORUM 🐕 Breed Week (Mar 10) 📚 Book Bingo - Accepting Donations PETZ LIFE (18+ Discord) 🐕 P5 Breed Appreciation Expo (Mar 1-14) 🎂 Ralph's 25th Birthday Party (Mar 12) 🥚 Easter Basket Bonanza (Mar 25-31) MILK BABYZ FORUM 🥚 Eggstravaganza!	Shades Roasty Toasty Princess "Cocoa" Owned by Shade @ NSP	EC/Tea's Mister Mithril "Locke" Owned by Teascape @ Hollow Kingdom	Shipwreck's Little Boy Blue at Flowsnake "Baby" Owned by Kieran @ Fractal

📰 Introducing the Petz Show Club 📰 Silly Spots is 26!

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Oatmeal's Petz! oatmealspetz.uwu.ai		Stanley Petz! stanleypetz.neocities.org

Petz Show Club is a Discord server, and is a space for you to show your petz, in addition to various forums and websites. Petz earn points using the same system as other showing platforms, and these points count towards the same titles. For example, if your pet has 30 points, he has earned the title of Supreme Grand Champion (SGCh). (More info on titles can be found here).

       The Petz Show Club was created (a bit selfishly) to help motivate me to host and enter standard pose shows. I love posing petz. I love showing petz. I love judging shows. I hate the tedious amount of paperwork involved in the current show scene - I'm just not organized enough for it. Before Petz Show Club, I hadn't entered any petz into shows for months.
       One of the things holding me back was having to go through every show that I joined and record my results. I needed to record the placement and the show's name for each entry. Because of this, I would drag my feet and not enter my pet's records into my database for weeks. Eventually I'd have no idea how many points a pet had - and oftentimes, I would show petz well past the 30 points needed to earn the SGCh title.
       Petz Show Club keeps track of your show records for you by using a Discord bot that automatically keeps track of all your pet's placings *and* the names of the shows your pet placed in *and* the amount of points your pet has. The show bot will even tell you the moment your pet has reached SGCh.
       Additionally, I have always found that the most tedious part of judging a show for myself was having to copy and paste each pet's showname into the placings for BIS, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HM and then tagging each participant. Well, the Petz Show Bot will do all of this for the judge! The judge simply uses Discord's reaction feature to give each entry an emoji for each placement (art by Helen@Daisychain),

and the bot will read these emojis, award the petz the appropriate points and placings, and keep track of the data for you.

Another thing the club does that I think is really special: it gives a database of show records for the petz community, similar to PKC. I was also inspired by MILK, the Babyz Community forum, who shows off the pageant records of all the Babyz on BCRS Hall of Fame, which is why the Petz Show Club has a Winner's Circle that announces all SGCh. achieving petz.

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At the time of this writing, there have been 617 registered petz, 221 of which are officially recognized SGCh titled petz. There have been 736 opened shows and 3,641 pet placements. I'm hoping that I can reach out to others who are feeling like me: burnt out by the tedium of tracking points. Or maybe you're new to showing and so intimidated by all the bookkeeping that you've never started your petz showing journey. This show club is for you! I hope to see you all in the ring!

And finally, some testimonials from active users of the Show Club:

"I have titled petz so much faster than I ever would have titled without the ease of entering [Petz Show Club] has." ~Shade @ NSP
<--SGCh. Deep Shadow's In The House (owned by Shade)

"WOW!!! I love petz show club. Showing my petz has never been so EASY AS 1 2 3 as it is on the petz show club discord server. I now have a few champions and more and more petz coming close each and every day. Petz show club is a welcoming environment for petz fanciers of all kinds and skill levels. Thor's discord bot automatically enters shows and tracks the points you've earned at the petz show club without even the gentle touch of a finger. Judging shows is as easy as 1 2 3 as well. Go to petz show club NOW!!!" ~Mazzew @ Mazzlabs

SGCh. AK/Mazzew's Learned the Hoop in 10 Years Flat and is So Kind
(owned by to Mazz)-->

"My favorite thing about the Petz Show Club is the streamlining and modernization of the Petz showing community. Its convenient bot allows me to enter and judge shows in the blink of an eye. Though I don't want it to replace forum showing, it is more comfortable for me. Almost all of my community interaction is on Discord; it's another convenient server for my participation! The ease of access for beginners is also important. I've already introduced two friends to Petz showing and they've been doing wonderfully! If it weren't for this server, They and I might not have the kick to get into or back into showing. Hopefully PSC gets lots more attention!" ~Oatmeal @ Oatmeal's Petz
<--SGCh. Oat's She Was a Good Girl, and It Felt Great to Be a Liar (owned by Oatmeal)

"PSC is the perfect formula of accessibility and streamlining that got me to start showing my petz after 20years of mostly avoiding it. Being able to check on and enter shows on the downlow at work gives me a chance to engage with the game I love most on a level I didn't know I could while away from my PC. I can't wait to see how it evolves!" ~ Teascape @ Hollow Kingdom

SGCh. PH's L Is For The Way I Look At Cheese (owned by to Teascape)-->

"I'm really loving The Petz Show Club! Super easy to do everything and fun! I'm excited to get more petz registered and showing." ~Amy @ Amy's Petz Place
<--SGCh. L'Histoire Up In The Clouds of Meezerville
(owned by to Amy)

🎂 March 11, 2021 - Hazy's Birthday! owned by Kathleen @ Alohomora

🍀 March 17 - St. Patrick's Day

🎂 March 12, 1999 - Ralph's Birthday! owned by ECRose @ Mythic Silence

🥚 March 31 - Easter!

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I was introduced to Petz via a co-worker who installed Dogz 1 onto my PC so that "Bootz" could accompany me while I worked.

When I moved on from this job, I forgot about the game until I eventually picked up Dogz II, downloaded the Dalmatian breed, and adopted my first pet, Silly Spots, on February 25, 1998. I cannot believe it has been 26 years - he has accompanied me through my entire marriage!
I used the paint bucket to give him his signature colors; then Carolyn Horn was kind enough to brex him so he would keep his coloration permanently.

He quickly became a trickster pup - My favorite trick is when he sticks to the screen and slides down. After all these years, it still brings a smile to my face.

Silly Spots is a big reason for my love of the Petz game series and he's what keeps me playing. I did not realize that my enjoyment of the game was so dependent on him until I returned to the game in Summer 2023. Two lovely community members were able to fix a few things that were buggy with my pup after importing him into Petz 3 and 4. Reflet was able to return his adoption date to February 25, 1998 (they recovered Silly Spots' long-lost mate Gem, too). Thor was able to recover all his tricks.

Looking for stamps? Let me help!

🍀 Medusa, Oasis, Milopetz, and Caffeine (on PUGS) release monthly stamps.

🍀 Check out WW's Main Street for stamp sales and more!

🍀 Take a peek at some PUGS shops for some free stamps.

🍀 Check out some RKC and WW showrooms for some champ-stamps!

These two things, in addition to the various game fixes made by members of the community, have brought back my love of the game. Silly Spots and I will be around for a long time to come!

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