Due to Valentine's Day coming up, the staff have decided to unlimit the subspecies breeding rule as a special event for this month only. This means that you will be allowed to breed any subspecies with any other subspecies for this breeding event. You can breed a dog with a cat, a dog with a big cat or a cat with a big cat!

A few details about how it will work and how we will be taking payments for this event - please make sure you read this information over carefully before claiming a slot:

- You do not have to mis-match the pairings if you don't want to. You can still breed a cat with another cat if you choose to, for example!

- The finished batch will contain a random assortment of the two parents' subspecies if you do choose to use different ones.

- Pre-claims will be done with a downpayment system to keep things fair for everyone (this will be explained in more detail below).

Pre-claim payments will work a little differently this time around because of the limitation being lifted. Because you won't know what type of subspecies you will be choosing right off the bat, you will be given the option to use a downpayment - which means you will pay the pre-claim price for whichever the lowest value subspecies is in your parent pair. You would then cover the rest of the subspecies' pre-claim value upon seeing the finished batch.

As an example, if you choose to breed a big cat and a dog and pre-claim one child from the batch, your downpayment would be $50 upon claiming a breeding slot. If, upon receiving your batch, you decide you would like one of the big cats from that pairing instead, you would simply send the remaining $50 to your artist upon claiming it.

- This ensures an element of fairness between the buyer and safety for your artist. Using the example above, if you provide your downpayment and then cannot cover a big cat payment, you will still be able to claim a pup.

- If you know you will be picking a big cat cub from a mis-matched pair you can absolutely choose to pay the full $100 upfront and do not have to use the downpayment system. This also goes for a kitten.

Besides the changes above, the event will still run the same as any other breeding event. The claiming and raffle system will be the same (except this month it will be a collab) and filling out the forms will also be the same. 

We hope you're all as excited as we are about this event and that everyone enjoys seeing the potentially wild combinations from it! If you have any questions, feel free to ask us and we'll try and get back to you as soon as we can.