My story is similar (or identical) to so many others. I had several breedables before KittyCatS and never thought I'd want virtual kitties. After all I had the real thing in RL. I stumbled across KittyCatS through a breedable blog which highlighted a RFL breedables fair in December 2011. Since RFL is a cause that is near and dear to my heart, I wanted to support it through my purchase of an adorable pair of KittyCatS. It was the knitted caps that hooked me that year. Then shortly after I had to have the Rain Dears. An addiction was born.
The thing that most intrigued me is that I was able to memorialize my tuxedo kitty that passed away in early 2011. The Domino kitty reminded me of my cat Dominic (aka Domi, aka The Domster). I have two that I'll never send to the menagerie for that reason.
I first discovered kittycats 10 days ago when i saw this beautiful cute kitten run across the floor in my friends club and i fell totally in love with him so now we have 4 beautiful kittens on our island and i think they are the best realistic cuties ive ever seen in SL so a big thank you to the creators and the founders of the group who are amazing and so helpful. Heres to making some precious little kittens in the near future.
I'd gotten a notice from Dreamscapes Art Gallery group saying that they had done a display at Kittycats for Christmas and there was voting. I dragged my guy to see it, and fell for the cats, they were so adorable. The next day I went around a secondary market and grabbed 2 - a bengal and an oci that had eyes I liked. Now I have 16 - not nearly as many as most but I had told myself I would only have 4. The easter/spring kitties were just too fun for me to resist.
(04-15-2013 05:52 PM)neckcadaver Resident Wrote: MY MADNESS STARTED: as a quest for therapy to help heal my TBI(traumatic brain injury aquired by gettin hit by drunk driver)
anyhow, the neurology dept realized that the "usual"methods dont suit me, or rather i made them realize. my goaal was finding something to help me with my cognitives. Breedables do all of this!
I had to relearn to walk and talk, and the reason i chose to auction was to practice my speech! and so far so good.and i look forward no matter how scary it is to my auctions!
much better then a smelly hospital with the doctors and a bunch of paper work. I am teaachng them as well about visual stim is better then just the stuff they have in the hospital.
my memory is still short term shot, BUT i do notice as does the neuro dept much much improvement---cognitives, creativity, and so forth!
so--CALL ME MAD, I DONT MIND! I RIDE THE SHORT BUS AND PROUD OF IT......MAD MAD BREEDER THAT WEARS GOOGLIE GOGGLES
have a happy one
neck!
Wow, that's great, Neck
Now, how I found Kittycats... After a looong break from SL(over 2 years), something reminded me of it, so I decided to come back. Most of my friends had left SL too, so I started looking for a new second life! I stumbled across another breedable and was excited to find out that breedables now existed, so I searched for one that would suit me, and I found Kittycats! I am now totally addicted, of course
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04-16-2013, 07:52 AM (This post was last modified: 04-16-2013 08:22 AM by Deer Thistle.)
When building my in-world store for q-bee back in 2011, I felt like I needed something a bit more entertaining than the monotony of friends just porting in and out to check on my building progress and thought that having a little pet that walked around and had animations would be ideal and make building more interesting at the very least.
Previously, I had seen on a Japanese sim behind their own in-world store that they had several kitten boxes (not for sale) in their own personal cattery and was intrigued from the get-go just by the names of the traits in the hover text over the boxes. I hadn't had much interest in breedables because I wasn't a fan of Meeroos which Ethereal had introduced me to earlier - it was the only breedable I knew of back then, the whole Meeroo 'game play' wasn't for me and honestly I had no intention of breeding whatever kitty I may adopt in KittyCatS initially, I merely wanted a kitty to roam around.
I then searched for KittyCatS sims to view what these un-boxed kitties may look like as I'm partial to kitties - RL-wise, I grew up with a cream tabby manx kitty and a seal point ragdoll, and that compelled me to adopt my own cat in SL versus any other type of SL pet available at the time. Essentially, I wanted to adopt one kitty that could 'keep me company' while building my store and walk around in the garden. And that's how I obtained Pomegranate (shown below), my first cat! That's Ethereal next to me who also fell in love with the pink cat and had to get one too. (Copycat! LOL)
I don't think I would have partaken in this community at all if it wasn't for KittyCatS having a pinky kitty, just the thought of having a fantasy color kitty wandering my store was so enticing in itself and suited my store so well! There's really a type of kitty for everyone in KittyCatS and I fell so in love with the prospect of a pink kitty. I had so many customers who ported in and fell in love with Pomegranate, he was the one who started it all! I still loyally breed his pink & white line.
Then I decided to adopt a siamese seal, a toy, named Miso. And I've always been partial to toys because they visually look best with my avatar's proportions, so my two little boys Miso and Pomegranate ran the q-bee in-world store, often hanging out at my prim register when not napping on the chairs, LOL It wasn't until the Skelecats, which I randomly stumbled upon while perusing the marketplace and purchased one, did I really get into KittyCatS as a community and as a breedable when a random customer IMed me and said "Hey, you know you can breed that lime skelecat, it could give you something new and exciting that no one has seen before!" and that curiosity alone lead me to where I am now.
KittyCatS has helped me overcome the sadness from losing my two cats many years ago, I didn't think I could ever come to terms with it and have another cat in my RL, losing both of them broke my heart so much but KittyCatS helped me embrace cats again. RL-wise since joining KittyCatS, I've adopted a Balinese Seal Lynx girl named Kamila and I so adore her, she's my shadow no matter where I go! She's a silly, lively kitty who loves to sit in my lap and mew when Sanura asks for her mew chorus for the Siamese song during her auctions, LOL, she's about as absent-minded as a kitty can come with no situational awareness and crosses her paws like a lady at any chance she gets to make up for her clumsy actions, she also plays fetch just as a dog would and takes pride in trotting back to me with the ball in her mouth, like our in-world kitties. KittyCatS, through featuring actual breeds blended with gorgeous fantasy furs, has piqued my interest in researching the different breeds discovered and I fell so in love with the Balinese in its mannerisms, and I'm so grateful to have Kamila in my life thanks to KittyCatS introducing me to the Balinese and helping me overcome my previous loss.
I've had nothing but positive experiences since joining this community and partaking in this breedable as a whole and to think it's all because I wanted a cute pink kitty to roam my in-world shop for aesthetics and to cure building boredom makes me smile. That was so long ago but still, here I am, and it's so amazing to see how this community has flourished and how many familiar faces there are even from back then!
Deer briefly showed how/why I started, however here goes!
I began my adventures in KittycatS as an observer. I'd see all these weird little cats running around Deer's store, wondered...where the heck did all these things come from. At first it was just a pink cat. She was telling me all the cool things he would do. He'd play with a ball, he'd walk around and go lay in his bed she got for him. All sorts of things. I just brushed it off at first. Deer always gets excited about so many things, it's one of her best qualities really. Next day or so, we got this tiny cat named Miso, who is something called a toy cat. I guess they stay small. So for a time, we had these 2 cats running around the store, doing their own thing. Within a few weeks, Deer had collected Collab88 cats, skelly cats, all sorts of cats. At one point I even had to tell her to cool it with all these cats!
She moved her shop into a bigger area, and we decided that with all the cats, she wanted to make a cattery, a place to keep all her cats. So she made a special house for them, with little shelves, and all sorts of craziness. We had been going to cat auctions here and there, and walking around CatNip and Juiceberry fairly regularly at that point, me just kinda following this maniac while she hunted for cats. I had really loved the colors on her Pink & White #1 cat Pommy (Pomegranate), I saw one for sale at someones stall, and bought it. It had Ody Fire and Rain. I thought it was so cool! Deer always said I acted like Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony's, so I named it Pinkie Pie.
In her picture above, you can see me (A.K.A. Girl-type Ethereal) holding Pinkie Pie. For the longest time I never really was interested any further than that. However, one day at one of Sanuras auctions, I bought a Russian White, with Pink Gerbera eyes. The very next week, I saw another White Russian being auctioned, by the same breeder, with the same eyes, so I bought that too. I started to breed them, but eventually I got fed up and impatient. I gave the cats to an auctioneer who was sending all her winnings and things like that to a cat rescue foundation irl, so she could sell the boxes for that.
Fast forward to 3 days ago, I finally decided to start breeding again. We had just gotten Deer her Wild Child MEGA and Toy cats (pictured below). It made me want to buy some of the Easter kitties, as I really liked how they where done. Deer and I agree that the flower kitties are some of Callie's best work!
Anyway, that's my story, Male-type Ethereal is committed to breeding, and hopefully I'll see everyone at the auctions, selling cats this time instead of just yelling at people! I've learned a lot sitting on the sidelines, and hopefully will be able to put that knowledge to good use!
(P.S. I'll be selling a Pink Russian, first one on the grid, at auction later on next week! See ya all there!)
I was given a couple of boxes as a rez day gift from a friend...this friend failed to tell me how to actually open them...needless to say I killed the first box by opening like i would any other package ...I was MORTIFIED it was twins after a few moments and the help of someone who actually was involved with breeding they told me how to do it. So I properly opened my other two boxes one was a Siamese and the other was a Chateau...and so it began....I HAD to find out more and before I knew it I had 50 cats and starting selling and breeding them...it's been a love affair to remember and NOW I can't stop lol
(10-02-2011 09:07 PM)KittyCat Princess Wrote: hi all,
i often get to hear in world how you found KittyCatS or how they found you and the stories are often so touching, or funny, or just simple and cute. often the notes and stories you send make my day
if you want to share how you found KittyCatS! we'd love to hear it and i'm guessing that the rest of the community would too.
so, how did you find KittyCatS or how did they find you?
SHARE HOW YOU FOUND KITTYCATS HERE
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And that's how I obtained Pomegranate (shown below), my first cat! That's Ethereal next to me who also fell in love with the pink cat and had to get one too. (Copycat! LOL)![[Image: 8324626908_bd3e17f263_c.jpg]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8493/8324626908_bd3e17f263_c.jpg)
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