Lorcanwolf wrote:anyone know why it was changed?
That's just obvious.
The fat cat's concept was an overweight greedy buisinessman (its description said it would spend all your neopet's money), which just doesn't make sense to be an entire
species of petpet. A unique character, maybe, but not a petpet. Plus, it was an actual "earth" cat, which they decided shouldn't exist in neopia, and above all, it had absolutely nothing to do with the haunted woods.
It was cool, and still is, but it just didn't fit in...nor did most of the other spooky petpets.
The meowclops was originally a HUMAN cyclops wearing a toga. The snorlkin was originally "redtail", a baby devil in a diaper, and other spooky petpets included a baby vampire (also human), and various inanimate objects.
I think it made sense to change those, but it DIDN'T make sense to change the Rotten egg (one of my favorite petpets ever) and the Grackle trap (a carnivorous plant). They both worked just fine as creatures from the haunted woods and could've just been given a nice redraw.