[Venatici]

hello all! I wanted to come in and officially announce the closing of the event. thank you all for participating! we are excited to have these kiddos up and running again!

as a beginning for those who are not in the discord or were in the event, please also welcome some of our newest staff! extend a warm welcome to chromatic. and yeena who have joined the artist team during the event and already provided some quality kiddos for the community <3

we are going to now be transitioning over to normal operations. what does this mean for you?

starting tomorrow, adopts will be posted on the main thread. this is to give time to runner ups who have not been posted yet, especially for adopts released last night! this means artists will not be posting any adopts today to give some time to catch up.

the website will be unveiled within the next couple of days. currently we are waiting on some users who participated in the event and won rewards, but have not filled out the google form
https://forms.gle/2kV2Y73qg7EBpJbM8
once I get more responses / reach out to those this applies to, we will be able to get things moving ^^

for both species, we are going to be implementing some changes in the way that we do things. there are now four different "services" our artists will be working on: customs, transfers, imports, and breedings!

customs will be free and can only be earned through events or the titling program. our staff go by the rule of thumb to "be sensible", so we are extending that courtesy to the community. however, if there is seen to be abuse of this system, we will be very strictly limiting what customs can have. as for now, the only limitation is customs with very rare or above traits need approval from one of the administrators (oats, arkin, or myself).
transfers are mostly going to be for huskies, and you do not need to receive a voucher any longer for a free transfer. our artists are going to be working off of a 3 - 1 system, meaning for every 3 free transfers they do, they are allowed to request payment for 1. how each artist delegates this is up to them!
imports are now a new thing we are adding, running off of the same system for transfers. essentially these are "founder" dogs that any member can receive, essentially a guaranteed adopt. we are going to be implementing this system with the additional idea for those who do not have any baltics, they will always be free.
breedings are now also going to be open for both huskies and reindeer! I know some of yall are super excited to get some year old breedings in, so these will be postponed for a short while as we get everything sorted out specifically as there have been some discussions we are having as a team. but no fear! all breedings will be free, because at the crux of it we want this species to be free to enjoy.

all of these will be working off of the main thread for each species, except for breedings done with reindeer. since most of these edits would need to be hand drawn by artists (they are not as rigid as huskies) it makes more sense to distinguish the two threads, especially since with reindeer we are aiming for a more typical 'cs adopt' environment.

in addition, we will be making some updates to our genetics guide for huskies and some general updates to both species! this includes looking to onboard a couple of non-artist related staff. more information will be coming about this in the next coming days as oats and I now work to overhaul all of our cs pages so that they reflect the current state of the species, as well as compile those updates into the website. the website changes a lot of things, so I will detail more about that for those who are getting invite codes. essentially the way this will work is we will have our first round of 'early access', which are those who participated in the event, be able to test out the site before it becomes publicly available for everyone. this way if there are any issues we didn't catch in the testing, we have time to mitigate them before it goes public. a little bit easier to test with 15 people than the whole community!

that should be all for now, let me know if any of you have questions. otherwise, thank you again for participating and I hope to see everyone around! if you haven't already, feel welcome to join the discord and bop along with us ^^

[Birdy]

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[chromatic.]

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[Venatici]

hello all! another couple of announcements on this late november night. first things first:

https://forms.gle/ZYrHPsuwHk6AgNf99
secret santa for the bsa community! all the info is in the google doc - feel welcome to reach out with any questions! this form will be open for a week : ) both staff and community members are welcomed to participate!

second, I am currently going through staff apps! for those who have not yet heard back, sit tight! we are still in the process of determining applications. we are going one by one, and since staff has been a little busy as of late we are working on getting some other things moved off the back burner as well! however, for those who have not yet entered, feel welcome to toss in a form : )

this then leads into a couple other things! namely, a cover for baltic husky #400 has been posted, and it will also include a couple other adopts as well:
Forum/viewtopic.php?f=124&t=4648678
this milestone is also completely hidden from staff so it will be a surprise for us all! the hope is to get these 4 done by the end of november, as they require a bit of work to pull off, since they will be a completely brand new mutation ;) in addition to these adopts, we are now going to be opening the nursery for both reindeer and huskies, as well as imports! the only thing off limits right now are customs, which involves some site mechanics.

regarding the site, I decided to make some last minute changes to how some of the systems work (because I am ever indecisive). I am also going to be revamping some of the pages currently available with the help of alhena, who will be my stand in for creativity ™️ this will also let us have some more time to add more art to the site as well!

as always, thank you everyone for your patience - let me know if you have any questions!

[Venatici]

howdy all! apologies for the double post, just making a notice here as well that I am opening my nursery slots, looking to take one or two. will not be fcfs! I will post who I chose tomorrow : )

just as a heads up, I need to do a runner up before I complete these, so keep in mind you might be waiting a little bit!

[DarkestWerewolf]

Breeding Form
Username(s) ;; DarkestWerewolf
Artist ;; Morg <3 Venatici

Parent #1 Adopt Link ;; Syren
Kennel/Stable Link ;; Here
Permission Proof ;; mine

Parent #2 Adopt Link ;; Pyros
Kennel/Stable Link ;; Here
Permission Proof ;; mine

Additional Items ;; nil

[honeybunchesofoats]

Breeding Form
Username(s) ;; honeybunchesofoats
Artist ;; Venatici

Parent #1 Adopt Link ;; HR Cage of Death (Mondo)
Kennel/Stable Link ;; Hero's Reunion
Permission Proof ;; mine!

Parent #2 Adopt Link ;; HR The Bees Knees (Applesauce)
Kennel/Stable Link ;; Hero's Reunion
Permission Proof ;; mine!

Additional Items ;; n/a!

[SushiFoxx]

Breeding Form
Username(s) ;; Sushifoxx
Artist ;; Venatici

Parent #1 Adopt Link ;; here!
Kennel/Stable Link ;; here!
Permission Proof ;; here!

Parent #2 Adopt Link ;; here <3
Kennel/Stable Link ;; bloop
Permission Proof ;; here!

Additional Items ;; n/a