Whoa, it’s been nearly a year since I’ve written anything on this blog. What have I been up to, you ask? The answer is simple:  I’ve been obsessing over cats!

Or, to be more precise, I’ve been breeding KittyCatS.

If you’d told me a little over a year ago that I’d be a hardcore customer of a breedable pet company in SL, I probably would have laughed at you and then asked if you were high. I’d always thought breedable chickens, turtles, horses, dogs, frogsbirdsplantsfairiesdragonstigersandgodknowswhatelse were ridiculous and a waste of time, money, prims, and server resources.

So what changed my mind? A friend sent me a kitten one day, it was pretty random. I was still typing “NO DON’T SEND IT” in IM to her but I was too late; the inventory offer had already come through and a tiny feline was waiting to be rezzed. I set my new cat on the floor of my skybox and he proceeded to trot around, and you know what? That was pretty much it. KittyCats are adorable. The people who designed them must have had focus groups where they experimented to see what would elicit the most “Awww!”s or something.

Turns out breeding them for specific traits can be like a fun game, too. If you understand the way the gene system works behind these cats, then you can eventually breed out a cat that has all the features you’d like: specific eye color, ear shape, type of tail, color of the whiskers… it goes on and on and o (Read more...)

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