Note:
These pets are not rereleases unless they were actually rereleased in a December 18th box outside of their original time of availability!
(Or a December 24, 2011 box.)
(Or a December 24, 2011 box.)
Table of Contents
- Available for a long, long time (many months)
- These are the pets that are usually called "extended releases"
- Includes older 2nd gens, older butterfly wolves, "Warriors" (the cats that resemble ones from the book series by Erin Hunter), and older Tess Horses
- Available for just a few months
- These are usually not called "extended releases"; refer to original title of this guide for why these pets are here
- These are usually not called "extended releases"; refer to original title of this guide for why these pets are here
- Available for just a few days before or after their release month
- These are usually not called "extended releases"; refer to original title of this guide for why these pets are here
- These are usually not called "extended releases"; refer to original title of this guide for why these pets are here
- Other
- Have you ever wondered about that one July 2008 rat that also appears under Advent 2008 in the archives?
- This guy is usually not called an "extended release"; refer to original title of this guide for why this rat is here He's actually a bit of a special case...
The pets in each post are grouped by species in the order of the Adopts page (dogs, equines, cats, butterfly wolves...).
If you see a link to your pet but don't want it up here, please let me know and I'll remove it. It might have been a Pound pet that was later adopted, or maybe someone provided the link on this thread but later traded it off.
About these pets
These pets fall into one of the three categories in the Table of Contents.
Some of these pets' values are a little different than what you might expect. (This mainly applies to the pets in the "Available for a long, long time (many months)" category.) Please use the "How much is this pet worth?" Thread in Chicken Smoothie Discussion and get advice on their values before completing trades that involve these pets!
People sometimes incorrectly assume that these pets are rereleases. But they aren't; they were adopted during their original adoption period, which just happened to be non-standard. So this bears repeating:
These pets are not rereleases unless they were actually rereleased in a December 18th box outside of their original time of availability! (Or a December 24, 2011 box.)
You can rest assured that the rereleases only happen on the famous December 18 during the advent calendar. ^^ It has always been that way ever since 2008 (with the exception of the additional rerelease on December 24, 2011, but it happened because of a miscalculation, and it still happened during the advent calendar).
About this thread
This guide does not talk about:
- store pets (available for two months each)
- rereleases (available every December 18th [and December 24, 2011]; every user can adopt a few random pets from past years)
- URs, zebras, White/Red/Blue Malk Dragons
- URs: small chance to adopt every December 18th (and December 24, 2011)
- Zebras: small chance to adopt one among your monthly equines; listed in the Archives under 2009/Special Releases (first released August 2009)
- Malk Dragons: small chance to adopt one among Malk's monthly pets while they were still regularly released, similar to how zebras are obtained; listed in the Archives under 2009/Special Releases (White, first released November 2009) and 2010/Special releases (Red, first released February 2010; and Blue, released April 2010); White was available the most often, followed by Red, and Blue was only possible in one month; all stopped being released outside of rereleases after April 2010
- event pets (Some events cover the end of one month and the beginning of another month. A common example of this would be the Halloween event, which usually runs during the last part of October and the first few days of November.)
- recreated pets (it is rare for Nick to recreate pets, but it does happen sometimes, and recreated pets are identical to the original pets in everything [including the displayed adoption date] except for ID number, which means that the recreated pet might show up in an unusual place in a pet group since pets are organized by ID number)
Feel free to ask questions!
Latest updates:
2019-Jun-02: updated Malk dragon info in this first post (About this thread: what this guide does not talk about)
2018-Dec-26: minor wording cleanup in this first post
2018-Aug-08: figured out a better, not-as-arbitrary species order; also a long overdue update with:
- precise July/August/September 2008 dog availability, including switching the section that the Sorbets are in
- Lime/Ice, September 2008, and November 2008 rat availability
- November-December 2010 Malk pet availability
2017-May-10: added 200k member litter to Available for just a few days before or after their release month; added minor clarifications of what is and isn't called an "extended release" throughout guide
It's just that they were only images. They had no unique ID numbers. There was no difference between the pet you grabbed and the pet someone else grabbed. Pets finally got unique ID numbers in July 2008 (actually, starting in June 2008 as you can see from the post above!), but the pets that Tess drew in April, May, and June 2008 were no longer available. Besides, Tess only drew the adult stages and some of the puppy stages and some of the newborn rat stages. She hadn't drawn all of the growing stages for all of the "pre-July" pets.
It's been over 10 years since 
