Hester's little friends - collection of faves

[Moiraine]

So I think this is the correct place for this? I've wanted for years to make a thread about some of my favourite CS pets, explaining their stories or where I got them or why I adopted them or anything - mostly just for my own reference - so I hope I'm understanding correctly and this is what this forum is for!

Adding some friends ASAP!

btw: posting is fine. encouraged, even. at any point you wish. tell me what you like or don't like or whatever, I will welcome it

If you see this post, say hello and show me one of your favourite pets if you want! I will find a 'friend' for them from my collection

Pets still to add:
- Lil' Sunday
- Gwen
- King of Hearts
... and more

[Moiraine]

I obviously have to start with Georgia.


Pet's name: Georgia

I adopted Georgia from the pound on September 9th, 2009. This was in the days when you could see all the pages of the pound and could simply click the highest number to get the oldest pets, but I don't think I even knew to do that back then, I had just joined CS. I found this pet in the pound and adopted her and was super happy to have a cool new pet that I hadn't seen in the monthly adopts!

I named my new pet Georgia, and she was the first pet whose design I fell in love with. I have thousands and thousands of pets across 13 years now, but Georgia has always had a special place in my heart!

Here's Georgia with her sister Rosamund, from the same litter:


And here are some random dressups of Georgia from the past:

[Moiraine]

I see a lot of talk about dreamies, but I've only ever had one dream pet in my CS career: the red Shima wolf. I had it as an off-site adopt when I hadn't even created a CS account yet in 2009, and then when I made my account, I was desperate to have one that was 'mine'.

I traded for one in July 2010. Since then, I've never had a dreamie- I have her already!


Pet's name: Gillian

I named her Gillian, which I felt was a very good wolf name somehow, and I've been enjoying her ever since.

And here are some random dressups of Gillian from the past:

[Moiraine]

Like Georgia, this one is a pound pet I got early on and always felt fond of.

In those days, not every pet in the pound had a name automatically- in fact, I remember most of them seemed not to. So when I adopted this one, she was unusual in that she already had a name, but even more so that the name was 'Hello you'. I thought it was so odd and funny that she always stood out to me for her name.


Pet's name: Hello you

[Moiraine]

The Christmas shortly after I adopted Georgia, some lions were released. Alexandra was one of them.


Pet's name: Alexandra

Of course, I was very taken with her because she resembled Georgia very strongly. What do you think- long lost sisters or no?

[Moiraine]

As with Gillian, I had a boar PPS off-site, and wanted another. I eventually traded for Buck.


Pet's name: ℬυcк

I never changed the special character in his name, hah. I also look at the trade I sent like "well that was the mother of all overpay wasn't it" BUT I got my boar PPS so it's ok!

I eventually picked up a grown up one at Christmas that year, and eventually I would pick up two more, which I never traded. I consider these to be Buck's sisters (one younger, two older)


Pet's name: Alia


Pet's name: Quietus


Pet's name: Lily Mae

[Moiraine]

On the month I joined, I adopted these pets. I didn't even adopt the full amount of pets possible because I didn't know to do that yet (when it says 'adopt 3, adopt 5, adopt 10' etc, I just went one at a time and only got a few. bless.)

These are those pets. I named them Hrairoo, Hlao-roo and Mothra. I've always felt fondly about them and they're like a little set- they go together!


Pet's name: Hrairoo - Pet's name: Hlao-Roo - Pet's name: Mothra

[Moiraine]

will i get shouted at for a horror film reference in the title

I traded for this girl on Christmas in 2009. She was my first store pet, I believe, and definitely one of the coolest. When the rarities changed, I was thrilled to see my little Helen become an OMGSR!

Helen has always been one of my favourite pets, one of the leaders of the pack, along with Georgia and Gillian and Amelia (she'll come in a later post)


Pet's name: Helen

[Moiraine]

An incredibly lucky pound catch at the end of 2017. Out of curiosity, I went to the 'pound pets you got' thread and pretended I didn't know what she was, and immediately got something like 32 trade offers of hilarious underpay lmao

Someone even PMed me offering me $100 of real money for her. I turned them down, obviously, though I can't say I wasn't tempted to sell her under the table for $100 lmao


Pet's name: Raven Reyes

I named her after a character called Raven from one of my favourite shows at the time!

[Moiraine]

When I was just about getting to grips with regular CS pets, I started to become more aware of store pets, via someone offering one to me in a trade at the end of 2010.


Pet's name: Amelia

I knew she was special when I saw her. I named her Amelia, after a Doctor Who character as I recall, and I've always kept her- she's always had the white wig, so much so that I had completely forgotten it isn't a part of the pet's permanent design- she always looks a bit naked without it!

Previous looks for Amelia: