No one wants painted pets?

[sue@neopet]

Ok. I have just started surfing the pound. Within my first two minutes I had found a Christmas Chia. I didn't like how he looked, but he is a painted pet so I got him. Today, I see a mutant moehog on a side. I'm like oh he is kinda (not really) cool. I look him up and see he has poor stats but think he is cool. I go back to the adoption agency and go to the search engine. Not expecting to see him still there, he is! I was gone for like 45seconds...Do people not want painted pets anymore? I thought if you painted a pet and pounded it that it would be gone within miliseconds!

Oh does anyone want these?

(I would keep him but his name is awful)

[onomatopoeia]

Maybe some folks just like to paint 'em and then put them up for adoption? Playing toward the best sceanrio, somone is giving other Neopians a chance to own a painted pet without having to schlep about for a paintbrush or the lab map.

Then again, maybe that Moehog just looks to much like a very old pet and less like a mutant.

[Rakumel]

It might also depend on the color and/or the pet. Certain colors and color/pet combinations are more sought after than others. If you were to put a Faerie Pteri or Lenny in the pound, for example, or most Darigan pets, it would be gone pretty quickly. That's assuming the stats aren't too high as to make the pet unaffordable, or the pet doesn't get "stuck" (name doesn't come up in the random search for some reason). It's too bad, but Mutant Moehog isn't a popular pet. If he's got an awful name to boot, it's little wonder he stayed in the pound as long as he did. The Christmas Chia, though, I'm surprised about - it's definitely one of their best colors.

But no, never assume that just because a pet is painted, that people will be scrambling to get it. I found that out firsthand when I tried to put a Robot Wocky up for adoption. Hope you have much better luck finding homes for yours

[Ange]

I think you partially answered your own question: they have poor stats, and ugly names. I think names carry more weight here than stats however.

That said, I have a ugly-named Halloween Grarrl that I still haven't been able to get rid of. So, I know from experience that name matters ALOT.

[Daze]

Painted pets are still in big demand, but it is not unusual now to see painted pets when randomly looking for pets to adopt.

Now that it is harder for auto-adopters to snag pets, the pets stay in the pound longer because you have to manually look for them.

[WolfMaiden]

I found a christmas Chia once. Spent about 5k to adopt him. He's level 31. I adopted him on my main account, and was waiting for a friend to log on so I coudl pound him, and she could adopt him. Her accounts not old enough, so now he's on my side account. All 3 of us are waiting for her to hit her 4 months so she can adopt him. He has a wicked name too. Really sweet and cute. Witch_Child.

[Teelie]

Even painted pets are often slower to go when they have terrible names. I've labbed a few pets and gotten them different colors before and released them to the pound. One, a checkered Skeith went fast because his name, while bad, wasn't terrible. Others I've seen kind of sit there for a few minutes.

[WolfMaiden]

I pounded a ruki, wasnt painted or anything, just the basic yellow, and he was gone almost the second I pounded it.

[Pudding]

I've snagged a fair number of painted pets over the years, but a lot of times I can't get an unpainted pet with a decent name. I'm honestly beginning to think that good names lead to quicker adoptions than being painted. It does definitely depend on what color it is, though.

[WolfMaiden]

But painted pets with good names are picked up rather quickly. I think the name is the first thing that people look at, and then species/colour. Alot of the pets in the pound have alot of numbers in the names, and its a little annoying.

[Meer]

Even painted pets are often slower to go when they have terrible names.

Yes. I won't adopt a pet, no matter how cool looking or hard to get, if it has a bad name. Stats, colors, species, all that can be changed, names are the only thing that can't.

Now that it is harder for auto-adopters to snag pets, the pets stay in the pound longer because you have to manually look for them.

How did they make it harder for auto-adopters? Can't you still type the pet's name into the adopt pet url and get it instantly like that?

[Huggles]

Presumably because of the four month rule. Once they're caught and frozen, they can't just create new accounts and adopt any pet. I'm not sure if there are any other methods TNT has improved upon or added aside from this, but they're fairly easy to notice once they grab more than a couple pets. They tend to go past the 5 account limit too.

[Rachel]

i agree with others here. i would rather have a pet with a good name as everything else can be changed but the name cant. i try not to have pets with numbers in their names, but i adopted one pet ages ago and it has numbers in its name, but now i cant bear to part with it as i really like it

[Daze]

Even painted pets are often slower to go when they have terrible names.

Yes. I won't adopt a pet, no matter how cool looking or hard to get, if it has a bad name. Stats, colors, species, all that can be changed, names are the only thing that can't.

Now that it is harder for auto-adopters to snag pets, the pets stay in the pound longer because you have to manually look for them.

How did they make it harder for auto-adopters? Can't you still type the pet's name into the adopt pet url and get it instantly like that?

Auto-adopters were programs, people had an automatic program to pick up pet species from the pound. They always had newbie accounts and the pets were transferred. I lost a Grey Cybunny to one (before I knew the quick adopt link).

TNT brought in the rule of no adopting rare/painted pets until your account was 4 month old. It certainly slowed down the scammers - bacause it wasn't a quick return.

[Meer]

Auto-adopters were programs, people had an automatic program to pick up pet species from the pound. They always had newbie accounts and the pets were transferred. I lost a Grey Cybunny to one (before I knew the quick adopt link).

TNT brought in the rule of no adopting rare/painted pets until your account was 4 month old. It certainly slowed down the scammers - bacause it wasn't a quick return.

Oh, yes. But I thought an auto-adopter where people put the name of a rare/sought after pet into the quick adopt link and let a auto-refresher program run continuously in hopes that the pet would be pounded for transfer.

So when you said they've made it harder for auto-adopters to get pets I thought maybe this was something they just recently did and perhaps made it somehow imposable to use the quick adopt url.